After Margot's retirement...

      Tried for a few caches this evening after Margot's retirement party.  As indicated in some of the logs for this cache, there were actually two almost identical caches that were literally inches from each other.  I am not sure which is the right one, but we signed both logs, and I'm sure one of them is the right one.  We took a little clothespin with a snowman face from one, and a little orange frog from the other.  I wonder how these two caches got so close to each other since geocaching.com doesn't allow caches closer than 1/10 of a mile.  


    We wanted to try for the BART North Concord cache, but I lost my cell phone connection totally, and when you are using an iphone for your caches, that doesn't work well.  I finally found a spot with reception and downloaded the map in case I lost connection again.  We'll have to try the BART cache later.  Instead we tried a few along Arnold Industrial North of Concord.  


     We found Cachin' Connection near the County Connection bus station.  Nice little hide.  Quick find.


     Next on the list was another in the model solar system caches, but I made another check on the Iphone, and saw a cache called Dad's New Toy Store , and we decided to give it a try. Previous logs indicated there were 2 caches together here.  We found a cache and decided to check the hint to make sure it was the right one, because the container was shorter than described.  After reading the hint, we were still confused, but the FTF name was right, so we think we have the right one.  I'm going to contact the cache owner to make sure.

     Last cache of the day was VGR2-Earth, which I believe is our fourth find in the solar system series.  We thought you needed to approach from inside the fence, but after taking a look and reading the hint, we determined you needed to be outside the fence.  We originally looked there, but the terrain was more than 1.5 in my opinion.  I wish we had a real, official guide for terrain ratings.  Most guides consider flat ground as a 1 and rough dirt with some minor changes in elevation a 2.  This was rated 1.5, but it was quite difficult to get to with bad knees like I have.  I would implore cache hiders to check the guides and take their advice.