July 15, 2021
Kennewick, Richland, and Pasco make up the Tri-Cities, with a metropolitan area of about 280,000.
Our first full day of exploring took us to Badger Mountain Park.
We visited a memorial made from 35-foot tall external vertical support columns from the World Trade Center.
At one time or another during our visit we crossed these two pretty bridges over the Columbia River.
We don’t seek out restaurants featured on television, but were very pleased with the quality of the food at Porter’s Real Barbecue. Then we discovered it had been on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. [Sorry about the reflections.]
We found some other interesting caches while in the Tri-Cities. At one, a former teacher had placed fun, decorative items around his yard, created a free library where any child could take a book, and developed a two-stage (multi) cache based on the cartoon character Tweetie Bird.
Adventure Labs are multi-site caches built around a theme. We completed one where we visited five sculptures and were challenged to find which of six possible thieves had stolen a valuable painting. At each site we were introduced to one of the suspects, told what he might be wearing as a disguise, and what weapon he might have used. It was an interesting combination of the game “Clue” and geocaching. Identifying the thief wasn’t too hard–we were given confirmed alibis for five of the six suspects and so only had to figure out the one with no alibi. The container holding the logbook was one of our all-time favorites. Who’s going to mess with the U.S. Department of GeoData?
Smoke from fires in the area colored the rising moon orange.
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