Caching Tales

There is no other place on Earth where you can see a volcanoe erupting, a giant Egyptian pyramid, the Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower, and even rollercoasters plunging of sky scraping buildings all within a mile of each other. There is no other place quite like Vegas! Yes this week we’re living it up Viva Las Vegas style in order to celebrate the other half’s historic milestone...his 40th birthday. With so much to see and do 24:7 in the city that never sleeps...and it really doesn’t, even at four in the morning you’ll find people wandering along it’s brightly lit streets as if it was the middle of the day, and others starring goggle eyed at brightly spinning slot machine wheels...you might ask who needs geocaching? Well actually, I do. I can’t live without a regular caching fix no matter where I am. And to be honest I do enjoy finding them abroad in popular tourist hot spots as there tends to be a lot more virtuals and earthcaches and Vegas was no exception. ...

Having spent so much of December and January travelling out to Huntingdon and Peterborough to hunt for caches, I decided to spend a few weeks a bit closer to home.  The wet winter weather had taken its toll on a lot of my own geocaches, and as the reports of wet logs and broken containers continued to come in, I realised it was time for a few CO visits. First up were repairs to the wooded section of the Wind in the Willows trail and who better to accompany me than my dad’s dog Bobby. He’d been couped up more than usual lately due to both my parents experiencing some health problems, hence he was incredibly excited when I arrived at the door armed with my geocaching bag, dog treats and his water bowl. Parking up half way along the trail, we set off along the orange sandy track into the woods. There was no one about today, and Bobby seemed to be on his best behaviour as I stopped to check each cache.  No problems with the first two, other than a bit ...