Letterboxes Everywhere!!!
Grabbed a few caches with Susan on Easter Weekend. We found 6 caches on Saturday, not one of them was a traditional cache. We found 1 puzzle, 2 multi caches and 3 Letterbox caches. There has been many letterboxes pop up in this area, so I thought instead of targeting Traditional caches, I would make a list of a bunch of cache types that I don't always get. On Sunday, we did 9 Letterbox caches.
One was a pretty cool box, that needed a screwdriver to retrieve the log book.
I had to undo a total of 15 screws to get into the box. There is actually supposed to be a total of 20 screws, but several were broken as they were made from plastic.
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Tour to the States
Went to Leavenworth as I had a show on April 18th. I also had a corporate gig booked at the Tulalip Resort Casino on the 22nd. I decided instead of going home between the two dates, why not book some other shows on the dates in between. (I'm good at that)
Ended up booking shows on the 19th, 20th, and 21st to make it a five day tour!!!
Made a list of 32 42 49 53 caches. 1 of which I had already found last year on my birthday when Susan and I went down to Wenatchee for a gig, but it's a cache at one of the locations where they filmed "Harry and the Hendersons" Harry and the Hendersons is a 1987 American fantasy comedy film directed and produced by William Dear and starring John Lithgow, Melinda Dillon, Don Ameche, David Suchet, Margaret Langrick, Joshua Rudoy, Lainie Kazan, and Kevin Peter Hall. Steven Spielberg served as its uncredited executive producer, while Rick Baker provided the makeup and the creature designs for Harry. The film tells the story of a Seattle family's encounter with the cryptozoological creature Bigfoot, partially inspired by the numerous claims of sightings in the Pacific Northwest, California, and other parts of both the United States and Canada over three centuries. In conjunction with the film's setting, shooting took place at several locations in the Cascade Range of Washington state near Interstate 90 and the town of Index near US 2, as well as Seattle's Wallingford, Ballard and Beacon Hill neighborhoods and other locations in or around Seattle.
Harry and the Hendersons grossed $50 million worldwide. It won an Oscar for Best Makeup at the 60th Academy Awards, and inspired a television spin-off of the same name. In the United Kingdom, the film was originally released as Bigfoot and the Hendersons, though the television series retained the American title. The DVD and all current showings of the film in the UK now refer to the film by its original title.
My trip will take me to Leavenworth, then to Everett, then to Monroe, Then to Lake Stevens, and finaly to Tulalip. As you can see by the number of caches in my list, I kept adding more as my tour grew.
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I headed out on day 1 of my tour towards Leavenworth, I was trying to make sure I got at least one cache that was in plain sight. The Geochallenge of the month was to find a cache in Plain Sight!! I had a few on my list that said that in the description.
This one was actually hanging up in a tree, and I needed my extendable pole to retrieve it.
This one was also in plain but it was a wherigo, and you had to stop at a monument to get some info to figure out where it was.
On day 2, I headed back towards Everett and I was able to grab 5 Traditionals, 1 Virtual, and 1 puzzle cache.
Susan and I stopped at this little church last year while thru here for 1 stage of an Adventure Lab. Now there is a Virtual cache there as well as a Traditional Cache
This was also a cool church I saw on the way thru a little town called Gold Bar.
It had 3 large skeleton's climbing the building and 2 skeleton's, 1 of which I am sure was meant to be Elvis Presley in the front seat of the car parked here. lol
It wasn't just inside the Little Library, there was a lock box on the backside, and you had the code to it on the cache page. Inside the lock box was a special tool to find the cache container and retrieve the logbook. Watch my video "Here"
Day 3 my show was in Monroe, but, I was spending the night at the same motel in Everett, so I did some caching in Everett and the Monroe area.
One of the Puzzle caches I did, started by having to complete a Kakuro Puzzle. It is not that easy, and this one was quite a larger puzzle then some of the one's I do. I do Suduko, kenduko's, Kakuro's and other math type puzzles all the time. But this one took me about a week to finish, before leaving on my trip.
Day 4, was a short trip to Lake Stevens and strangly enough, I found caches at 2 different little free library's today. Seems to be a theme happening. lol
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One of the paragraphs read:
Washington State had the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the U.S. (not counting later retroactive research that may have uprooted earlier cases). On January 19, 2020, a 35-year-old man who had returned to the U.S. four days earlier after traveling to visit family in Wuhan, China, checked into an urgent care clinic and tested positive for COVID-19. He had a 4-day history of cough and fever, wore a mask in the waiting room, and eventually recovered.
I found a few more caches on the way to Marysville, where I checked into the Tulalip Casino and Resort.
The following morning after checking out and grabbing some breakfast I headed back towards the border and grabbed several more caches.
On my trip I found 13 Traditional's, 1 Virtual, 3 Wherigo's, 3 Letterboxes, 2 multi's, and 9 Puzzles, A total of 31 only, but definatly some cool caches.
Next month, I have shows all over, so will be grabbing some select caches.....But more about that in Next months Blog....
Well that's it for this month!!
Keep on SAScaching!! LOL
Chris Yuill
Magicman65
