We set out from home last Friday on a mission to break our daily geocaching record. It stood as 14 caches found in one day. Shouldn't be too hard, I see tons listed between home and Caprock Canyons and we'd decided to go camping.
Off we go, taking a totally different route from our last trip to Caprock Canyons. The weather was beautiful. Just outside of town, here's the first one. Nice. Mr. Nomesquad zips across traffic and we soon realize that maybe we should have grabbed that one on the way home instead... oh well.
Moving on, we found several more, most of which were just off of the highway. No problem! We're out as a family, having a good time and seeing some of these little towns and communities around that we've never even heard of before.
Funny Story at the Crosby County Wind Farm - we're learning about alternative energy thanks to a series of geocaches placed outside of Ralls and Lorenzo.. in fact we totally bypassed Ralls by taking back roads chasing this series. Anyway.. Mr. Nomesquad finds the cache and runs it back to the car. We're at least 3 or more miles out in the middle of nowhere as you can see. The log is being signed and returned to the cache and a tractor is shuffling down the side of the road. Geez... ok gotta hurry and replace the cache so we can get out of the farmer's way. Nope. The farmer pulls into the field and starts plowing DIRECTLY behind that sign. Mr. Nomesquad stashed the cache and ran, but we think the farmer was watching us like we were absolutely nuts.
This is how teenagers go geocaching with the family... ------>
She missed some gorgeous scenery - see the next photo.
This was at Blanco Canyon - near Floydada.
Behind them was a very large hole in the ground with green grass at the bottom. What irritated me about this geocache was that it was TINY hidden under some huge rocks. The cache owner could very easily have placed something quite a bit larger here.
Just hanging around, at a park cache in Floydada.
Why did the bison cross the road?
To go get another geocache of course!!!
Ok maybe not, but they were crossing the road in front of the visitor center at Caprock Canyons State Park, right after we picked up the multicache there.
A new cache was placed by Lake Theo.
Sure wish the lake had more water in it. Its even lower than when we were here last November.
All in all we found 16 geocaches this day. WOOHOO! Now we have a larger record to break, it should be fun trying. It took us about 3 1/2 hours for a 90 minute trip because we cached all the way to the park.. LOL
