This adventure kept us much closer to home. The weather is starting to cooperate just a little bit and so we left early on a Sunday morning to do some local caches. We traveled at most 10 miles south of homebase and then looped around back home. First stop was a cache that was on a fire hydrant, it took a bit of looking around, never expected it to be so small but I guess that is what a nano is. Second stop was another one just as small. Our favorite cache of the day was the one that looked like a sprinkler. Seriously looked like a sprinkler. Mike "found" it then said no, then said yes then no. Is it? Isn't it? YES it was. Very fun and certainly explains how you can hide something in plain sight. A couple of the caches took us to Modern Day Ghost Towns - subdivisions abandoned because of the economy. These were fun to poke around at and I am saving my pictures of them for another post. We even ended up at Panda Express where William found the flashlight that was a cache. So many clever people out there hiding things for others amusement. The fountain at the Queen Creek library was really nice looking and the entire area was so perfect for checking out a book, sitting in the sunshine and reading. One that we didn't find was at a historical site in Queen Creek the Desert Wells Stage Stop. There are even old posts there to hitch your horse to. That one is going to require a second try for finding the cache. Geocaching has certainly taken us to places right near where we live, as well as further away, that we might never have taken the time to see or go to if not on our quest for a cache.
