401

We grabbed a cache on the way home from dinner out in Augusta on Friday. We got a find and removed one of our DNFs. We didn’t find this one a while back, but we weren’t the only ones, the container had gone missing. The owner has since replaced it and we found it.

Saturday we got up early and headed north and east with the goal of finishing up our SC Challenges in that part of the state. One of the counties we needed was Chesterfield which is where Cousin Laurie resides, so instead of our typical breakfast at Cracker Barrel meets in Florence, we did a lunch at Subway in her home town of Chesterfield. She even joined us on a caching expedition behind the town’s high school. We were gone for almost exactly 12 hours, covered a touch over 400 miles and got to check off the 3 counties and 4 DeLorme pages that we needed with the 11 caches we found.

After yesterday we were at 392 total. We needed to get just 8 to get to the next milestone and there were 8 relatively fresh caches along the bike lane they added along side the new I-520 section in North Augusta. Seemed like somebody was trying to tell us something. At first we tried to resist, but by after lunch the pull was too strong. We parked at the DMV and started along the trail. Donna’s idea was to walk to the furthest cache and work our way back (this strategy worked well yesterday when we went all the way north and east before working our way back home.) And that is almost exactly what we did, the pent up desire to do something caused us to pick up #2 before walking the whole way. We found all eight giving us exactly 400 finds. Turns out there was a cache right there behind the DMV building where we had parked, oh what the heck, might as well start on the next hundred, plus 401 is a prime number. By the time we were done we had walked 4.7 miles.