Hide In Plain Sight

It took a while but I finally got to this milestone. We’ve been out hunting over the last 2 months but I had nothing to post since January. I’ve got the rest of the year to get to 1500 – a worthy goal

Grabbed 25 this past week as I celebrated my 60th birthday. Two days of seven and now today 11. So in honor of Nigel Tufnel, I give you a great bit from This is Spinal Tap, one of my favorite movies.

Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and…
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it’s louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it’s one louder, isn’t it? It’s not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You’re on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you’re on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty DiBergi: I don’t know.
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Marty DiBergi: Why don’t you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to eleven.

Finally got out on a absolutely gorgeous day. Sharon and Fergie joined me to find a bakers dozen. With my 60th birthday in 10 days, my goal is to get more this year than any other

Thanksgiving 2011 and 3 more to the total. Once again we had dinner at Gillian’s in-laws and her friend Beverly was my co-pilot/navigator for the 3rd year running. We also brought another of her friends, Jared, who’d never been geocaching before.

OK – finally grabbed a couple. One on land, one by the water. Weather is getting nice, so I’m gong to see what I can grab between now and New Years and get to 1200.

Sharon, Fergie, and I took a trek out to Queen Creek to checkout the Queen Creek Olive Mill. They were packed with people given that they had a a wine tasting along with an art show, and we splurged on several oils, dressings and spreads. While exiting the premises we saw a sign for The Pork Shop, drove down, and got some victuals – hot Italian sausage, KC bacon, and they threw in some brats. This came one day after a drive with Gillian, Nikki, and Kellen to Cottonwood and Arizona Stronghold Winery to pick up the wine they held for us as members of their Club. All in all a gorgeous weekend with a few caches thrown in for fun.

There is a local radiologist who is very active in geocaching and who has hidden quite a few. Some are downright impossible – others are easy but take one on a hike with caches every .10 mile. Today was such a day. 95 degrees and muggy, Sharon, Fergie and I went out along a paved trail and picked up a series that radDad1 placed. Fergie wasn’t happy, but it was a good walk and ran into another team at the last one we grabbed. We chatted with the two ladies who makeup “Wogunhiker”, and then made our way back to the car. Fergie was dragging but relieved not to have to walk any more. Thanks Chad for the enjoyable morning.

Welcome to the year 1011001011010, however, I don’t think my ancestors thought in binary.

The 10th anniversary – don’t get me started on what should have transpired over the last 10 years. For that, I refer you to Our Post 9/11 World: A Ten-Year Retrospective – an alternate history I would have preferred.

September 10, 2001

September 11. 2001

In any event we met up with Nikki for breakfast at a nice restaurant in the East Valley – Joe’s Farm Grill – and ended up driving around the area and picked up a handful. Our cruise took us past Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport and ASU’s Polytechnic campus. All in all it’s been a nice day.

Those who get it, and those who don’t. I grabbed the last 10 to get to 10001001100