A bike rack....and Geocaching!!!

I woke up to cool again, but not as cool as it has been....was really nice. Work day as usual...nothing special. As soon as I could logoff, I was headed to town with my rental car. I thought I might get in one more site before I had to turn it in. However, the timing for the the guy that was picking me up didn't allow for that. So, I just drove it straight back to Enterprise and was grateful for the day I did get. I only drove the car 60mi and I didn't even have to put any gas in it...cool!!! It did allow me a nice afternoon yesterday. Got back to the campground and did a little personal email, then I decided to go chat with a neighbor. A couple pulled in 2 days ago in a Winnebago Journey (a rig I strongly considered), but I wanted to ask them about their bike rack. I'm about to buy one and I really like theirs....so I knocked on their door. They were very nice and showed me all about the rack, we put the bikes back on the rack...it's cool. I think I have my answer on that problem. They invited me in and it was sooooo nice to be in a rig like I will be in one day....it's really nice, and much bigger than what I've been in all week. We chatted about an hour and the topic of geocaching  came up....they do this and have had a ball. I've read about others doing it, and know something about it but not much. They said this campground had 3...they had found 2, but the other one was way up the hill....then they asked if I wanted to go do it.....SURE!!! So off we went......and up the hill it was. It was about twice as far up the hill I had gone up on Tues.....OMG it got steep sometimes, and there were lots of cactus.....

He had a hand-held GPS with him so we could find this cache. On the screen it showed arrows for your direction and told u how close you were. It was a rather steep walk and at this altitude was....WOW!! But we did it, and then came across this teepee looking thing. The cache was telling him that it was behind a natural made structure. Well, we were struggling with that, this was made out of natural stuff, but was very man-made.

But we looked behind it, and sure enough there it was, under a rock...

see the plastic tube???

We got it out....

and it was a plastic tube filled with all these random things....

There was a small journal that he signed and dated, and we put it all back in the tube, hid it again, and headed back down the hill. Before we left, they had shown me "traveling animals"...like a frog, that they had picked up. They had a "dog tag" on them that had a number on it. You logged onto the site, and looked up the traveling history of the animal, and you could see if there was a specific place the owner wished for the animal to go....(sorry forgot to take a pic of them)....it is all rather well thought out, and provides much fun....it's like a scavenger hunt anywhere you go, and you don't have to hide anything, just go hunt!! They said they'd gone places they would have never known about and seen some cool stuff because of this....hummmm, something for me to think about for the future. Is good exercise too...bonus!

We made our way down the hill and I stopped for one pic over looking the camp ground, I'm much higher than on Tuesday when I came up this way...you can see much more of the campground...very cool.

once back down on level ground we watched a deer and some humming birds...there is certainly evidence there is lots of wildlife here, but have not seen a lot. One couple was telling me that several yrs ago a doe came to their site and she was hurt. She looked like a mountain lion got her, her ear was split and she was badly scratched up. They nursed her back to health and now, every year when they return (they live here 6mth and Arizona 6mths), she comes to visit and brings her babies. They told me, they can now see 3 generations when she comes to visit....too cool. Reminded me of the movie Elsa...about the lion.

Well, was time to say thanks and good-night, I needed a shower and had to pack...this is my last night, have to return this little house to Aurora tomorrow. This is only about 80mi, so won't take too long and I'd like to be able to go ride the Pike's Peak RR.....but we'll see. I will work 1/2 day and then have to close down and hit the road. 

It's been an amazing adventure. No classroom could have taught me the things I've learned. There are many things you just have to experience, no one can explain them, this is one of them. Time for bed....I have to start early....my last cool campfire aroma nite.....but I"ll be back one day!