Won’t You Be Glad When The Newness Wears Off?

Guess what we did today? Right. Geocaching. Not once, but twice.

We headed out early on the tandem to pay bills and catch a few caches. Our first stop was dropping off the cable bill and from there we hustled across the southside to a church where there was a regular size tupperware that held a travel bug. We beat everybody, even the preacher, to the parking lot. The advertised TB was’t inside, but one of the missing ones from yesterday was, so we took it. Logged our find and headed over to the complex of office buildings nearby.

We were there for one of four postal themed caches we had earmarked for the ride. The four are small to micro sized containers near blue USPS mail drop boxes. This first one was hid in some bushes and the hint mentioned “The bushes are very sticky.” My index finger on the right hand is still a little tender where a holly leave punctured it. And we didn’t find the cache.

Next we went a little way down the road to a box in a shopping center parking lot. I spotted this one quickly. It was a bison tube inside a small replica of a blue mail drop box. As we signed the log we noticed that there was a car at a bank ATM that was sitting there the whole time and the passenger kept glancing our way, it was a regular “mutual wonder what the heck are they are doing society.”

Next one was down a hill through a country club to a medical plaza and blue box. This one was in the bushes and it consisted of mini replica of a home mail box. Signed the log and thought we were smart in avoiding a very steep hill back up by going a different way, but it turned out to be a much longer and tougher climb.

The last of the series was another bison tube with a trickier hide. After rolling the log sheet back up and stuffing it back in the tube we opted to head home and get breakfast. The 4.3 miles walking on Friday, 4.7 on Saturday and 9 miles on the bike today was starting to take its toll, we could go out later to pay the 2 remaining bills (by car.)

The Birthday Bug we grabbed at our first cache of the day was bigger than we wanted to take out west and it listed a bunch of nearby places it wanted to visit, so after lunch we headed for an ammo can over in North Augusta. But before we went there Donna thought we ought to swing by our one miss of the morning. Because we had done the other three of the postal series, we now thought we had a pretty good idea of what we were looking for. Sure enough Donna spotted the small home mail box replica standing up while I was back on my hands and knees looking under holy bushes. The ammo can was an easy find, because the hint gave pretty much gave it away and we picked up an unexpected geocoin to add to our bounty.

We now have 9 travelers to take on our vacation, but we think that we might drop one in Columbia somewhere on Friday and then a second one in Charlotte on Saturday before catching a plane to lighten our load.