A Little Experience Goes a Long Way

We won't be breaking any land-speed records anytime soon, but we are getting better at this.  We started the day going after three caches that were DNFs (Did Not Find) for us on our first day of geocaching.  The first one was Watt's the Connection?  This was a very clever hide.  It's a 3 difficulty, which is the hardest we've found so far.  If you are just starting geocaching, look at some of the custom cache containers that are out there so you'll have a clue what to look for.  We were excited to find this one, but the next was even tougher.

On the way to look for The Rocky Fountain, I noticed a cache called Strata which was also in Heather Farms Park.  We found the spot easily enough, near a sculpture commissioned by the city of Walnut Creek.  I can't say the sculpture spoke to me.  We spent more than half an hour on this one before finding it in a place both of us had looked before.  We had planned to try again for The Rocky Fountain, but there was a wedding in the area and we though it best not to be part of the ceremony.


Next on our list was Bullseye.  This one drove us crazy when we tried it before, because we had no idea of the kinds of places one might find caches.  This time, we agreed cache hider who said it was a pretty standard parking lot hide.  After you start geocaching you can never look at a light pole the same way again.


Sam's House of Torture is a creepy name, but a pretty quick find.  This one reminded us that we need to buy mirror that telescopes to help us see over, under, behind, etc.  We headed back toward home and stopped at REI hoping to find some camo tape, but no luck.  Salesman said to try Home Depot.  No camo tape, but they had the telescoping mirror :)  


Last cache of the day had our first travel bug!  On the way out of the Home Depot parking lot I noticed a cache in the next lot over.  We found VGR-1 which is part of a model solar system.  I'm embarrassed that we used the hint for this one but it was getting late.  Nice camo.  Hope we can find the other "planets."