Jane’s birthday activities included a tour of Carson City brothels. If you guess such a tour was geocache-related, you know us pretty well. All of the caches were hidden outside and the most interesting part of the experience was seeing a few wild horses.
The china rabbit Jane is holding hosts the log for the cache at the Bunny Ranch.This is the second “fence” cache we’ve found–the first was in Eugene, Oregon. [The log is on the back.] Still pretty clever.We hadn’t previously found a cache just like this. The spider lives high in a tree but is attached to a rope that’s within reach.These fawns seemed quite at home just a few blocks from the Nevada capitol.The Lincoln Highway was the nation’s first transcontinental highway and reached from Times Square to San Francisco. Washoe County hadn’t marked its section of the “Main Street of America” so a contractor building a culvert took it upon himself to make bridge rails shown here and in the next image. Highway officials liked the signs so much they proposed that all Lincoln Highway bridges have them. Only one other set was built.The rails were moved to Interstate 80 in the early 1970’s.We chose to walk about three tenths of a mile rather than drive over this bridge on the way to a geocache. A few days later, we DID drive over it on the way back from a different cache–saving many miles of very bumpy dirt road.One cache we solved was a puzzle cache–we had to solve an anagram of the cache owner’s name on one side of the cubes to get the final coordinates on another side of the cube. A hint provided by the owner gave the order by color.When this building was constructed in Verdi, Nevada it had traditional lines. Someone came along later and added these “Gothic Western” touches but never opened a business in the location.If you read the blog often, you know we like interesting rocks like this one [near where we found a cache].
Jane’s nephew Cory Brisbin (her half-sister Michelle Appel Brisbin’s son) and his family live in nearby Truckee, California. We drove over and enjoyed a soccer game (Cory’s son Noah was playing) and then refreshments at the Lighthouse Coffee Company.
Dave, Jane, Cory, Cory’s daughter Avery, and Cory’s son Noah. Thanks to Cory’s wife Julie for taking the picture!The Rocking Stone overlooking central Truckee used to rock at the touch of a finger. The tower around it was built in 1895. We found it while looking for a geocache. A quest for a geocache took us to the Old Truckee Cemetery. Does anybody else remember “There was an old man named Michael Finnegan . . .”?
Our RV park outside of Reno was affiliated with a casino. The sites were nice but two things made for more noise than we liked: A storage facility was being constructed outside our front door and Reno was hosting Street Vibrations, a motorcycle rally. We appreciate a little more quiet.
August 4, 2022 Vermont’s oldest geocache was closer to our campground near Albany, New York than our campground near Montpelier, Vermont so we treated it separately from other Vermont geocaches. Besides, it was harder to Read more…
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