Geocache #295 - Found 4/5/11 in Colorado Springs

So the plan was that I was to drive my daughter's car to the Springs, she had driven in with her husband who had dropped her off in fountain on his way to work at the base.  I would then visit with my son and his girlfriend if she wasn't working and then I would pick Candace up from work and we would drive back to Pueblo together!!

I spent a wonderful afternoon with my son.  We went to lunch and then he took me back to his place and showed me what he has been working on musically.  Here is a picture of the guitar he had made with his father and grandfather while he was visiting California at Christmas time.  He, also, played me some of the tunes he has been working on.  Did I mention that my son is very musically inclined, he has been writing his own music for a few years now.  I wish he couldget it published -- maybe one of these days!!

Carleen, his girlfriend, met us at his place.  We then headed out to meet her former boss who was responsible for opening up a new satelite college in fountain and wanted to show her the facility.  She is hoping to get hired on there.  We got there before he did and while we were waiting we decided to see if there were any close caches.  My GPS said that there was one right in the parking lot that we were sitting in.  But when we went to look we found nada.  After reading a few of the recent logs, it looks like this cache is MIA.

Geocache# 295

Front Range Washout

We still had some time to kill so we went to the next closest cache just a few blocks down the road. We did have to get out of the car and walk a little ways, but it was a nice paved trail and we didn't have to walk too far.  Aong the way Carleen picked up a fancy paper clip and pocketed it.  Turned out that the cache was big enough that we ended up putting the paper clip in with the rest of the SWAG.

While we were trying to cover things back up so that it looked more natural a couple walked by walking their dog.  Since we had been taking pictures of the site Carleen and Chris stood up and said loudly, 'Hey mom, can you take our picture'  good cover for our blundering!!

Chris and Carleen

Afterwards we headed back to meet Carleen's former boss.  He was even aware of what geocaching was and was surprised that there was supose to be one in his parking lot!!

We then headed over to find where Candace worked, again getting there with plenty of time to spare - we tried to find a nearby cache, but alas it is still there to find another day!!

Geocaches #291, #292, #293 & #294

Wow!!  I have been remiss in blogging my geocaches -- last I bloggged was geocache #290 -- Just recently I found Geocache #333.  I must catch up before I head out and find some more.  I think Kim and I are planning to go out on Thursday, but I'll have to double check with her if that is still on!!!

Alot of these are pretty routine caches, so will probably blog some of them together!!

These next 4 caches were found on 4/5/11 while I was visiting my two older children in Colorado.  I was staying with my daughter in Pueblo and had decided to borrow the car and head up to Pueblo to visit with my son on his day off!!

As for Geocache #291 

Who's Guarding the Pinon Bridge Cache?



A quick cache and dash, but not quite where I thought it would be in the guardrail!!  But close enough to grab it quick and STL.  Can't find any pics of my escapade!!  Bummer!!  Hmm I am now wondering if it was suppose to be in the guardrail and it had just fallen out.  Oh well!! I put it back as I found it, trying to camo it with surrounding rocks and such.

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Geocache #292 was just a little bit further down the road.

Stonewatch Keep

As I found a place to pull over I could see what I thought was the cache from my window. Yep sure enough it was!! Another quick cache and dash!! Tried to get a picture of 'Stonewatch Keep' but it didn't turn out.  I guess the owner of this cache is a big 'World of Warcraft' fan and the buildings beyond the fence and down the road reminded him of 'Stonewatch Keep' in WOW

WOW's Stonewatch Keep

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Geocache #293 was found just a little further along the same road!

Walking Stick Flats

Another quick cache and dash -- sorry can't seem to find the picture of this one either.  I seem to recall it was another one found in the ground at the base of a fence post.  STL.

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Geocache #294 another one that was seen from the car. 

South Meridian

This one was found near the corner fence post at the intersection of the road - can't even remember what frontage road I started out on and another road that 'T'd' into it!!  I needed to start heading back toward the Highway as this road wasn't getting any closer to Hwy 25, in fact, it was going further and further away.  The other road headed back towards the highway!!

As seen from the car

SWAG

I was hoping to place a few travel bugs that I had picked up in California and this one was big enough, but I was leary of placing one in a cache that was so easily seen -- not sure how long it would actually be there and I wuld hate to place a bug where it would get muggled!!  I've seen it happen and then the travel bug is lost in the void!!