April Road Trip!!!

Comedy Magic Road Trip

I booked a bunch of shows in the interior of BC, so it made for a nice road trip. The trip was from home to Kamloops, to Salmon Arm, to Vernon, to Kelowna, to Hope, and then back home. A nice 5 day trip and I was able to grab several caches each day. The weather was perfect the whole trip, which made for some nice traveling and caching.

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Day 1 (April 15)

Today I left home in the morning and headed to Kamloops where I would be performing this evening.

Headed down the highway towards my first show of 5. 

I stopped into Britton Creek Rest area and was able to grab three full adventure labs and a couple of nearby whereigo caches

One of them I had to stomp through some snow to get to it. Lol

Along the way further up the Coquihalla there were several Challenge caches I would be able to get as I had qualified for all of them. 

Got a puzzle cache in Kamloops upon arrival. I solved it a long time ago when I was there but couldn't find it as there was snow on the ground, but was able to grab it today. 

Grabbed a quick Virtual about "Billy Miner" and the Great Train Robbery where he stopped the wrong train and only found $15 and after a 50 mile horse chase he was caught and sent to jail for life!!!

Day 2 (April 16)

Today I would grab a couple of caches while heading from Kamloops to Salmon Arm, as well as several in Salmon Arm. 

One of the caches I went to get was a letterbox cache that Susan and I started to do on our trip thru here towards Edmonton back in 2020.  

We started getting all the information and then realized the final was in a nearby Library but because we were coming thru here on a Sunday, it was closed, so we headed onto the next cache and stopped trying to solve it.

Was able to grab it this trip except I had to go back to the mural for the info about 3 or 4 times as I kept missing something when I looked for it in the library. 

I went to downtown Salmon Arm for a nice little walk.

I did a couple of Adventure Labs in Downtown Salmon Arm, and there are a lot of cool buildings in the downtown area.

Check out the roof on this building.

Day 3 (April 17)

Today I headed from Salmon Arm to Vernon for this evenings show. 

Did an interesting AL about houses that were over 100 years old in Enderby

Went thru Enderby and Armstrong on the way to Vernon. Grabbed several caches as the trip was only 45 minutes, so I had lots of time for caching today.

Did several Adventure Labs and caches when I got to Vernon as well including several "Free Library's"

This one even had a smile!!!

Day 4 (April 18) 

Today I went from Vernon to Kelowna which was also only 45 minutes away

Was able to do an Earthcache about Hoodoo's while in Kelowna. 

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Day 5 (April 19)

Last day of the tour. Headed out from Kelowna towards Hope, and after the show in Hope I will head back home as I will only be a couple hours away.

In Hope, and I was able to do several caches as well as 2 Adventure Labs about the movie “Rambo”

The movie was mostly filmed here in Hope in 1982, and the AL’s take you to different spots that were used in the movie.

In the Fall of 1981, for 6 weeks, the town of Hope, BC was the site of the filming of the action movie Rambo: First Blood. The movie tells the story of Vietnam War veteran John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone), who travels to the fictional town of Hope, Washington. While there, Rambo is arrested by the town’s sheriff, played by Brian Dennehy. Rambo escapes, and a bloody manhunt begins, and culminates into almost leveling the small town.

Very interesting to see all the spots and feel like you were there in the movie. Here I am at the "H Tree"

I also saw the building they used as the Sheriff's office and the Outpost Gun shop, as well as the bridge where he was arrested at, after dropping him off to leave town.

If you are ever in Hope, BC and have seen the movie 

"Rambo-First Blood" I highly suggest you do these 2 Adventure Labs

Here is the scene in the movie at the "H Tree"

Two trees planted long ago, whose young trunks became entwined to form the distinctive letter "H", still stands at the junction of Hudson Bay street and 5th Avenue.

Usually there are two wood carving statues in this spot. One is "Sheriff Will Teasle" and the other is "Rambo"

Unfortunately the "Rambo" carving was not here as some of the carvings are removed over the winter to preserve the nice finish on them. 

I even saw a forklift driving down the street carrying another carving as the city was putting them out since the nicer weather is upon us.

Here is a picture of me with "Rambo" from a previous trip to Hope with Sansue

These 2 "Rambo" Adventure Labs where not there during that trip.

Saw a bear in Hope while waiting for the train to pass by, but he seemed friendly so I wasn't worried!!

The second library cache I did this trip was in Hope. Much quicker to find than the Salmon Arm one. lol

Can you see the Hidden Treasures??

This was the cover of the book, that the cache was in. Very creative to build your own book to reflect the cache itself.

This was the last cache I would do during this trip, as after my show this evening I would be heading home.

In total on my five day road trip I found 60 stages of 18 different Adventure Labs, and 52 caches, which included 23 Traditional's, 1 Multi, 1 Earthcache, 3 Wherigo's, 3 Letterbox caches, 4 Virtual's, and 9 puzzles of which 8 of them were Challenge caches.

Not a bad total for 5 days of caching.

Next month will be a busy month as I will be moving, but I will also be heading over to the Sunshine Coast for some shows, and will be taking Sansue with me, and we will grab several caches while there.....But, more about that in Next Months Blog!!!

Well that's it for this month!!

Keep on caching!!

Magically yours,

Chris Yuill

Magicman65