We’ve mentioned that geocaching takes us to really interesting places. We passed this interesting-looking building on the way to a cache and came back to it when we saw there was a cache located here. Yay! Howard B. Taylor along with his wife Faye and daughters Nancy, Gail, and Penny Read more…
August 30, 2021 The Museum of Flight is the largest independent non-profit air and space museum in the world. Its organization began in 1964 to preserve important and historic artifacts representing the evolution of flight. It is home to 175 aircraft and spacecraft, exhibits, and education programs. The museum features Read more…
August 29, 2021 Getting to Mt. Rainier was more fun than we had expected. We stopped in at Ex-Nihilo, Latin for something created out of nothing, for a geocache and had a great time exploring four acres of “Recycled Spirits of Iron”. Sculptor Daniel Klennert started collecting material (junk) at Read more…
September 4, 2021 Mt. St. Helens is the youngest volcano of the Cascade Volcanic Arc, having formed only within the last 40,000 years. (The eruptions of Mt. Rainier, in contrast, began 840,000 years ago.) Europeans called the mountain St. Helens after a British diplomat. The Cowlitz people called it Lawetlat’la Read more…
August 25 – September 1, 2021 Highway rest areas are good places to switch drivers AND often have geocaches–sometimes interesting ones. The earth cache at Manastash Vista on I-82 on our way from Wenatchee to Randle featured a nice sandstone formation and basalt pillows. Randle, Washington is near the center Read more…
August 18-25, 2021 Mt. Margaret The oldest active geocache in the state of Washington and the only remaining cache with a three-digit code is GCD on Mt. Margaret. We attended a geocaching event near the trailhead and then Jane joined three other women (Bonnie Parrett, Vickie Pryor, and Karen Barak) Read more…
August 18-25, 2021 Wenatchee (the “a” sounds like the beginning of “apple”) was named for Indigenous people who lived at the confluence of the Columbia River and Wenatchee Rivers. Now the area is home to about 110,000 people. Wonderful fruit is grown there: We bought peaches, pears, apricots, and apples.
August 11-18, 2021 The weather wasn’t bad while we were in Bridgeport, but the air quality was awful. Two days we didn’t venture out because smoke from distant fires made the air quality index into the hazardous range. On other days, however, the smoke and haze made for some interesting Read more…
August 11-18, 2021 We chose Bridgeport as a base for exploring Grand Coulee Dam and the surrounding area because it had an RV park that sounded nice. Bridgeport was settled in the late nineteenth century by Chinese miners. Developers from Bridgeport, Connecticut purchased the town and named it after their Read more…
August 11-17, 2021 We’ve looked for (and sometimes found) caches in areas burned in last summer’s forest fires. Dry Falls Dry Falls was formed after ice dams collapsed during the last Ice Age about 13,000 years ago. The falls were three and a half miles wide, five times the width Read more…