124,000 Footsteps

I know it was nowhere near that many, but some­times it feels like that when you are walk­ing in cir­cles, kick­ing over leaves, look­ing for and not find­ing a cache.

We set out this morn­ing with a list of the 13 geo­caches left in the 47 cache Risk Series. Those were all that were loaded in the GPSr so we couldn’t get dis­tracted by other near by hides. We were out for 9 hours, walked almost 4 miles, drove almost 150 miles and found 8. There were 3 DNFs and 2 we couldn’t even attempt. One, the final cache, World Dom­i­na­tion, we were lack­ing 3 num­bers in the coor­di­nates. Those 3 num­bers would be found inside the other cache titled, Cap­ture The Flag. We couldn’t find that one because its coor­di­nates were wholly located inside a ran­dom cache in the series and it must be one of the three we couldn’t find today. Maybe next weekend…

Yes­ter­day was a car-less day as we rode the tan­dem to work and when we got home we just stayed inside for the rest of the evening. The tem­per­a­ture Fri­day morn­ing was any­where between 35 and 38 depend­ing on which weather source you believed. Whichever one it was we know it was down right cold bike rid­ing in. The only thing that got really cold were our hands, which prompted a stop at a bike store in Augusta to buy some win­ter cycling gloves.

The Emperor passed through the 124,000 mile mark not long after leav­ing the garage for our trip this morning.