19 August, 2010

Spent a lovely day GC'ing with brother Woodhick803 and SIL.  We started out in the rain at the New River Gorge Visitors Center - Sandstone Falls, getting some information we needed for an Earthcache and also getting the "eyeroll" when we explained to the volunteer what we were doing.  Argh - I guess he'd forgotten the thrill of searching for hidden treasure.  Onward to Cemetery Cache where Woodhick803 found the first cache of the day, hidden in plain sight but, at the same time, very well camouflaged.

After that a quick stop at the Hinton Dairy Queen for lunch - gotta be well fed, ya know - and on to the John Henry statue and Steel Drivin' Cache.  We never did find the cache there, even though we made a return trip to it and searched everywhere we thought it should (and shouldn't) be.  It's a pretty popular stopping place and we all wondered if it had been kidnapped.


I got the second find of the day at TGH-Summer Camp.  Yay me!  Since we had to return through Hinton, another stop at DQ was in order!  GC'ing encourages such an appetite.

The majority of the remainder of the day we spent at Sandstone Falls.  Even though I've lived less than 30 miles from the Falls for most of my life, I'd never been there.  It's beautiful and I'm so glad today's adventure got me there. 

We finished finding the necessary info for the Earthcache and spent more than a few minutes at Roadside Swimmin' Hole, but no luck there.  The last few logs for that site had mentioned that they couldn't find the cache either, so none of us felt too badly that we had to join that list.

Mom always wanted my brother and me to play together and I know she's absolutely beaming that we're enjoying GC'ing together.  

All in all, a good day.