I asked Bev and Ben if they wanted to go. At this point mom had expressed interest in going. We were going to drive her car mostly for the room and it gets better gas mileage than my car does. Plus my car might blow up on I-5. Bob was busy at a card tournament. We decided to leave around 2:30 so we could get a few caches on the way down. Mom decided not to go because she wanted to finish the quilt so we could start raffling it off at work this week. We're raising money for Relay for Life. Ben was in Rochester so we picked him up on the way.
Onward ho towards Castle Rock! I wanted to stop at a few place along the way. Bev had already gotten most of the caches in this area. She didn't care if I stopped for a few of them. We stopped for one off of the Vader/Ryderwood exit to grab a new one by bearsandme, Live Life with Geocaching (GC4NYWK). We parked at the restaurant nearby and ran across the road to the trees. Ben found the cache.
We set our sights on Barnes Dr, a location I've done in the past with Bob and Bev. I got off at Barnes Dr. and found the closest one to us. It was a truck stop gas station and the cache was called Gee Cee's (GC48KX4). I walked around the wrong way to locate it. Bev wondered from the car where the heck I was going. I found it quickly as several muggles watched us from their cars. I'm sure they could care less what we were doing and then they drove away. We got in the car and moved onto the next one.
At little further down Barnes Dr., we stopped at Moving to the Country Farm (GC41EZJ), which was off the main road and down an old logging road. Luckily, it wasn't that far of a walk to the cache. However, since it was what I call a "hillbilly area," (places in Washington and Oregon that people throw trash, dead animals and other debris off into the forest or the side of the road, to avoid disposing it themselves). We found several freezer bags of fruit, some dead deer carcasses and feet and random trash. It sickens me. We found the cache quickly and got the heck outta there.
I looked on map screen of the GPS and got really excited at the name of the next cache. Give Me an Oink (GC41MJW), we so had to stop. I knew a pig would be involved since it was again a bearsandme cache, she usually has some pretty epic animal caches. We parked at the nearest convenient spot on the side of the road and walked about 300 feet to the cache site. Ben walked past it as I caught a glimpse of the container sticking out from a log on top of it. We rolled the log off of it and grabbed the container. I was so excited to see what was inside I couldn't wait. There was a pig inside and it made oinking noises! I had Ben take my picture and take a video.
From there, we grabbed Is It Christmas Yet (GC415V6) and Grab a Tent It's Picnic Time (GC47HRQ) two caches part of the I-5 Series. We found both of them quickly and enjoyed what bearsandme attached to both of them, one a Cardinal and the other a wooden watermelon piece.
And now the best one in Castle Rock, Aloha TB Hotel (GC1G3TR) by Cascadesclimber and Geomimi55. I found this back in late 2012 when it was just a lock n lock container sitting on the ground while they fixed the actual cache. It was taken down because the sign it was attached to the back of was destroyed. I had to come back and see it in all its glory. It was pretty cool. Bev had seen the old hotel, I saw the lock n lock container and Ben got to see the new one for the first time.
It was about 5:00 so we decided to head on across the freeway to the other side where Papa Pete's Pizza was and the spring forward event (GC4XNHA). We found a great parking spot and wandered in. Cascadesclimber and Geomimi55 greeted us with joy. We signed in, got a name tag, which was also our raffle number, found a place to sit down and decided which pizza we wanted. Bev went up and ordered a family size pepperoni and couple of salads. We talked to a few people, took a picture with a very large TB and just enjoyed our time.
For the meet and greet game, they picked a few things off of profiles of cachers they knew would attend the event. You had to go around and get the right answer. Once you had the right answers of the fifteen questions, they provided coordinates of a new puzzle cache called Know Your Caching Friends (GC4ZA5J), that would be published during the event. I was actually one of the cachers featured on one of the questions. Ben and I figured out the coords and went to see if they were right. Ben got his first FTF and got to keep the FTF prize which was a coin.
We went back up to the event and took some pictures of the TB's on the vehicles. We went in and sat down and had fun watching people win raffle items. Bev won one of the raffle items. We talked to Frisbee'r, Rose Red and Jen from the Jackson Clan. We boxed up our extra pizza and took it home to share with Bob and my mom. We left Castle Rock around 7ish and dropped off Ben at his station in Rochester and I took Bev home soon after that. I got home and logged my caches. Until the next adventure!
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