Traveling and Caches!!

I love virtual caches!!

Grabbed a cool Virtual cache before my show nearby!!

I have always for as long as I can remember searched out Virtual caches whenever I was traveling as they were no longer being published. 

A few years ago Groundspeak gave out 4000 Virtual caches to members of the caching community. 

YAY....Virtuals were now back as a regular caching item!!

Every year now they are releasing 4000 of them and letting those that qualify to have a Virtual, that they can find something cool and have it published.

From a previous Blog:

In January 2024 I was awarded a Virtual Cache as part of a limited release of Virtuals to be created between 

I was pretty excited to receive this, and already knew where I would place it. Back in August 2015 while in Vegas for the Magic Live Convention, I went to a virtual called "Las Vegas Money Makers"........For the rest of this story, please go to my blog at "virtuals and adventure labs"

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The show I was off to do after grabbing the Virtual cache called "for the love of laughter" was right at Kitsilano beach. I needed a cache with a shareable to qualify for the Geochallenge of the month, and it was the only one in the area that had a sharable.

The cool thing about this show on the beach, was not only was it a fun group, but about 30 metres away there was a cache. I grabbed it just before the show. LOL

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In October one of the Geocaching FaceBook groups has a caching bingo and you can win prizes.

I am already planning where I need to go caching to fill this bingo card!!

Had a show at the Lynden Library on a weekday, so I crossed the border early so I could grab a few caches.

Lynden, Washington is best known for it's Rich Dutch Heritage, Extensive Rasberry farming and community events like the Northwest Washington Fair.

Was able to get 5 Traditional caches, 1 Letterbox cache, 1 Puzzle cache, and 1 five stage Adventure Lab.

There are several windmills and depictions of windmills in town including this one that was one stage of an Adventure Lab.

Had a show down in the States on Mercer Island, and then the next day in Bonney Lake.

Susan and I grabbed several caches during the trip. 

We found a total of Four different Library Caches during this 2 day trip. 3 were Multi caches and 1 was a letterbox cache.

Each one was unique in its own way.

One of them made you find several different books within the Library, and there was a magnetic clue on the underside of the shelf. We had to visit 3 different books to find the cache at the end.

One, we did some math to find the Reference code to the spot in the library, but was unsure what section to look in, so we asked the librarian where we could find the reference number and she got up and said its right over here and proceded to walk to the spot and hand us the cache. lol. That was easy!!

The one that was a letterbox, was a letterbox in true fasion where you had to walk from a parking lot and follow directions and gather clues and numbers along the way to end up with the Dewey Decimal of the book that was the cache.

We also visited Jimi Hendrix's Memorial in Greenwood Memorial Park in Renton, Wash.

It was a large structure with carvings of Jimi and some of his lyics and quotes. It also had a bronze "Fender Stratocastor Guitar" in the middle. 

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The carvings that were on the 3 columns that supported the Dome ceiling had pictures of Jimi and different quotes.

They all had several lip imprints all over them from obviosly his many female fans that adored him.

Jimi Hendrix, by name of James Marshall Hendrix, originally John Allen Hendrix, (born November 27, 1942, Seattle, Washington, U.S.—died September 18, 1970, London, England), American rock guitarist, singer, and composer who fused American traditions of blues, jazz, rock, and soul with techniques of British avant-garde rock to redefine the electric guitar in his own image.

We also did a virtual with Mount Rainier in the Backgound:

Mount Rainier is a massive 14,410-foot active stratovolcano located in Washington State, about 60 miles south-southeast of Seattle

We got a total of 7 Traditional Caches, 4 Virtuals, 3 Multi caches, 3 Letterbox Caches, 2 puzzles, and 3 stages from 2 different Adventure Labs.

Next month I have more shows in the States, plus I am off on a five day trip to Las Vegas with another Magician friend of mine, feels like I was just there a month ago, oh, wait, I was, lol.....But, more about that next month.....

Well that's it for this month!!

Keep on Caching

Chris Yuill

Magicman65

VEGAS BABY!!!

Penticton to Kelowna to Vegas Baby!!!

Headed to Penticton on July 31st, to do a show for a Bachlorette Party, and then the next day in Kelowna for a private show on Aug. 1st, and the following day on the 2nd I would be heading to Bellingham airport to fly to Las Vegas. Lots of Miles put on during this weekend.

I left Vancouver early for Penticton, so I could grab several caches along the way. It turned out, It was a beautiful day with lots of sunshine. A great day for caching!!

Grabbed a couple of early morning caches in Hope area. 

There used to be a cache behind the old Hope sign, but must have disapeared when the sign was removed and this new one put in place. Now there is a cache behind the sign but further into the wooded area.

Passing thru Merrit, I took a quick trip down what has been dubbed as "Gadget Alley"

Several caches have been placed on this stretch of road just outside of town and they are all cool gadget caches. Today I found "admit one"

A very cool Gadget cache with a Theatre theme to it.

There was another one there that I have not completed, but it was very smoky due to nearby forest fires, so I headed down the road.

As I write this I just looked at the map and another one has been placed after I came thru here, so now I have 2 more to get on my next trip this way.

On the way to Penticton I swung thru Peachland and I Found a cache at a Giant peach called "Crunchy Peach" 

Appearantly it used to be a large golf ball on a Golf Tee (as you can see in the pic below) and they painted it and made it look like a peach.

Nice to change something like this to suit the area.

I believe the golf course is still there and now they sell golf balls with little Peach logos on them.

This was a Virtual Cache in Peachland. I love to search for Virtual caches when I travel. I found two on this trip.

After the show that evening, I headed over to Kelowna to spend the night as I have a walkaround gig the next day. 

Got up early and headed over for Breakfast with a fellow Magician that lives in Kelowna. After a nice chat with him, I headed out to do some caches before my gig.

Found one called "KELOWNA"

It was near a new signage placed on the waterfront. 

You can see by the picture where the cache got it's name from. lol

Also grabbed a cache in town called "a bibliophiles bliss" which was a Multi cache ending in the Kelowna Library 

The clever title of the book was "How to use Multi-Million Dollar Sattelites to find Tupperware in the Woods"

This one was covered in Camo tape, but it wasn't in the woods. LOL

During my quick 2 day trip I found 2 Virtual's, 1 Multi-Cache, 6 Traditionals, 1 Letterbox and I also completed a 5 stage Adventure Lab in Penticton and 6 stages of four different AL's in Kelowna 

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VEGAS BABY!!!!

Headed to Las Vegas, the city that never sleeps, A city Built on Sand, Broken Dreams, and $5 Lobster. A city where clocks don't matter but your Credit Card does!! Where money dissapears faster than a Magicians Rabbit!!......Ok actually the lobster is more expensive now!!!

Headed there for "MAGIC LIVE" Magic convention. We drove down early to Bellingham airport where I was able to complete a 5 stage Adventure Lab right in the Airport. (How cool is that)

We arrived in Vegas and headed straight to the "Orleans Hotel" which would be our home for the next 6 days. 

The convention was four days long and we did not even have to leave the hotel during those 4 days. (Ok, we did go across the street once to the convienience store as Liquor is cheaper there. Lol)

On our last full day there we rented a car and headed out to the desert, as I wanted to take the guys to "Seven Magic Mountains" 

I was able to grab a Virtual and a Traditional Cache while there. Some new ones since my last visit.

(I knew I would not get many caches on this trip, as I was busy with my Magician friends I traveled with)

This was my fourth trip out to see these Magnificent rock statues.

We stopped into the Town of Goodsprings, where I took the guys to the "Goodsprings Saloon" 

This Saloon was built in 1913 and is one of the oldest Bars in the State of Nevada.

This is the Ammo Can Cache that lives in the Bar. If you ask your server or the bartender for it, they will gladly let you have it so you can log it. I have already found and logged it as this was my third time coming here, but I wanted to show the guy's, what a cache looks like.

We then headed over to Hoover Dam, where it was 47 degrees Celsius......ouch, that's HOT!!!

The water level is dangerously low right now as you can see by the picture.

We then headed back to the Las Vegas strip to see the show "Absinthe" which was a very cool and risque Cirque du Soleil show. After the show, we headed to Fremont street for a bit and then back to the hotel to pack for the trip home in the morning. A great trip and super fun!!

In total on this trip I found 1 Traditional, 1 Virtual, and 10 stages of 3 different Adventure Labs at Hoover Dam and 3 stages of an Adventure Lab at Goodsprings, plus the AL in Bellingham.

Lots more fun and caches in Las Vegas.....I will return!!! 

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Grabbed a few caches this weekend and recieved a Virtual Souvineer for International Geocaching Day.

Also headed to a Lunch event close by. Nice to chat with other cachers while having a bite to eat.

Next month, I have shows and trips all over, and I will be grabbing some select caches.....But more about that in Next months Blog....

Well that's it for this month!!

Keep on Caching

Chris Yuill

Magicman65

"Road Trippin"

 Harrison Hot Springs

Went to Harrison Hot Springs for the Fraser Valley Magic Company Annual Picnic, and wanted to get at least one cache. There is Virtual out there that is called "searching for sasquatch"

I've been out to Harrison several times and don't recall seeing this cache, even though it has been there since 2022. So this time I really wanted to get it. The requirements to logging the cache was to take a picture with one of the many Sasquatch statues, or items depicting Sasquatch on it in town, BUT you can't use the three prominent carvings in town. 

These are the one when you come into town at the town sign, the one downtown on a bench that you can sit beside, and the one at the Sasquatch Museum in town.

 (Yes there is a sasquatch museum) Located in Harrison Hot Springs (about 120 km east of Vancouver), this facility is Canada's only museum specifically dedicated to the Sasquatch.

There are several other sasquatch figures, statues, or paintings of him around town but you have to search. 

I didn't have time to search as I went straight to the house of one of our club members where we were having the Picnic at, but I did see one on the way thru town and thought I can stop by on the way out of town. They have a beautiful property, with lots of cool signs in the two covered outside area's as you can see in the picture.

As I was looking around, I spotted something that would help me be able to log the cache.

I was able to use this photo to log the Virtual, and I bet no other Geocacher will find this Sasquatch wall as it's on private property!!!

A great big thank you to the Host's Dave and Cathie for opening up thier home for us as well!!

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Whistler trip

I headed out to Whistler as I had a show out there and on the way there, I did some Caching to complete the Geochallenge of the month for July. (I found out about it early as I am a Patreon of "The Geocaching Vlogger") The objective was to find at least three different icons in the same day. I ended up finding five different icons. (Virtual, Adventure Lab, Traditional, Multi, and Letterbox)

I found a virtual cache which was right at the same area as my Adventure Lab that I own out that way in Squamish.

This cool art instalation is called "Welcome Gate" and is actually also one of the stages of my Adventure lab called "SP'AKW'US Feather Park"

 I also found a traditional cache in the area, and then in Whistler Village I did a 4 stage multi cache.

Loved this cool sign I spotted on my walk for the Multi cache

After my show on the way home, I stopped just off the highway and grabbed a letterbox cache, which was actually up in a tree. (Make sure you read the hint first)

I did not know that, but luckily, I always carry my extendible pole in the back of my car.

Ice Cream Event

Headed out with Susan (Caching name is Sansue) for a geocaching event called "7th annual sunday sundaes"

Its always a well attended event. 

We grabbed 3 caches before the event as well. 

Large group of cachers made this a great event. Check out the Logbook!! 

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States Caching

Headed down to the States as I booked a wedding gig down in Edmonds, Washington.

We stopped in Blaine do do some Adventure Labs, as there is a new series of AL's being made at the border that is geoart, and will spell out CAN/USA 

As you can see from the pic, it is not quite finished

I got a total of 228 stages at the border. If you recall a couple months ago in my blog I talked about the AL Geoart I was part of over in Victoria on the Island. That one has a total of 124 AL's and the one here at the border will have 76 AL's when completed.

We then headed to Arlington, Wash. to get a cache I did on my last trip to the states. It was called "the Switchboard", which was a really cool gadget cache, so I decided to take Susan to it. 

In fact I revisited 4 caches that I had aready done, so she could see them as they were very cool. 

We stopped at the Library in Edmonds to get this cache.

It was called "Signals story-Edmonds library"

We got several more in Edmonds. I got 5 traditional's and 2 Multi caches 

I found a total of 7 caches and 2 AL's in Edmonds bringing my total for the day counting all  the AL Stages in Blaine to 237 finds for the day

 

 

(Technically that is the most finds I have found in one day, but I won't count it as it is mostly made up of Adventure Labs)

It was a beautiful day in Edmonds, and awesome for caching, and walking the pier. 

We tryed to get a cache that was inside a metal tub in a bench but my telescopic magnet that I brought specifically for this cache was to wide to fit between the boards of the seat. We did another cache nearby and in it was a small pin with a magnet on it. I took it and we went back to the cache. I hooked part of the cache(a small metal chain) and as I brought it up the magnet 

and chain connected to the metal tube. Leaving me with no cache in hand...oooops. Oh well, next time we are there I will be more prepared.

Next month I will be heading to Penticton, Kelowna, and Vegas, so I will be grabbing some select caches.....But more about that in Next months Blog....

Well that's it for this month!!

Off to Kelowna, Penticton and VEGAS BABY!!!

Keep on Caching

Chris Yuill

Magicman65