California and Nevada caching

So within a 3 week period, I will be traveling to Bellingham, Washington to fly to Los Angeles, California to drive to Carlsbad, California, to play at LEGOLAND with my little boy for 3 days, back to Los Angeles, then fly back to Bellingham, and back into BC, then turn around and head back to Bellingham the next day, then fly to Las Vegas, Nevada. Enjoy Magic Live and Vegas for all its worth for 8 days, then fly back to Bellingham, and back into BC. Then a couple days later, I will fly to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan for 3 days, and then back to BC. Whew, I'm tired just writing that. lol
I think I should be able to grab some cool geocaches during all those trips!!

LEGOLAND Trip

My little boy and I headed to LEGOLAND in California for a small vacation. While there, I was hoping to grab several Virtual caches as well as a few traditional caches. One of the Virtuals was in LEGOLAND and you had to visit 9 different locations in the park to get answers. The first cache we went to when we got to LA was a cache called "Skinniest House in America". The Long Beach Historical Landmark that has been featured in the Guinness Book of World Records and Ripley's Believe It or Not. The 10' x 50' lot containing the house was acquired by Newton Rummond as payment for a $100 debt in 1931 during the Depression. Rummond designed and built the Skinny House in 1932 to win a bet that a habitable home could be build on such a small piece of land. This three-story English Tudor Revival house is 10' wide, has a living room that measures 9' x 21', features 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom, and boasts 860 square feet of living space. The house is one room wide and has a deck on the third story.

I was excited to see this as there is a skinny house in Victoria, that I have been to, and my friend and fellow Magician owns the "World's Narrowest Freestanding Office Building". It is also in the Guinness World Records and Ripley's Believe it or not books.

Skinny House in Victoria, BC

This house in Victoria, BC is just nine feet wide it's one of the skinniest houses in Canada.

The "Jack Chow Building" at just six feet two inches deep, it is said by Guiness and Ripley to be the world’s narrowest freestanding office building.


We also did a virtual called "Simon Rodia's Dream" which was a very cool structure that was built out of cement, 11,000 pottery shards, 10,000 seashells, 6,000 pieces of colored glass, and 15,000 glazed tiles. It was built back in 1921 and was being restored when we visited.

 Getting some refurbishing.

 During the rest of the trip we grabbed several more caches including a total of 10 Traditional's, 14 Virtual caches, and 1 Multi cache. We spent 3 full days at LEGOLAND having fun or we would have found more.

Oliver and I had a blast at LEGOLAND and as you can see by the pictures, he still likes to pose on top of rocks or in trees. lol

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Las Vegas Trip

Got home from LEGOLAND, and then turned around and went to Las Vegas for Magic Live, which is a Magic Convention that I have been going to for several years now. There was a new cache in the parking lot of the Orleans Hotel and Casino, which is where we always stay. This was the only cache I was able to get while in town, as I was busy with magic stuff.
A week before we headed to Vegas, the city was overrun by millions of Grasshoppers. It was all over the news. The only grasshopper I saw when I was there actually happened to be at this cache I got. lol

Next months blog I will let you know how I did in Saskatoon, and the adventure that I had....

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Well that's it for this month,

Keep on caching!!

Chris Yuill

Magicman65

Upcoming Trips and Blogging

Deas Island Caching

On Fathers day, Oliver and I decided to go grab some caches on Deas Island. We started off with a puzzle cache where you needed to find 6 smaller caches with info and clues inside them to find the final. For some reason today we were having no luck and only found 1 of the 4 we went to. We decided to head over and find "NOW......This is FLY FISHING" 
It has over 200 fave points. Met up with 3 ladies on the way there. They were up here caching from Kansas City, Utah. We chatted a bit, and I am sure I will see them next year in Abbotsford at Geowoodstock XVIII.


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The Great Trail Treasure Hunt is back!!

Lace up your shoes and tune up your bike because the "2019 Great Trail Treasure Hunt" kicked off June 19 with more boxes to be found and more amazing prizes to be won!
Last year’s contest saw hundreds of Canadians from coast to coast to coast take to the 24,000-kilometre "Great Trail" network in pursuit of 100 hidden treasure boxes. This year, they’ve hidden 200 boxes, which means more to explore, and more chances to win. Read on to learn more! 

 This is a pic of me on the last Year's Great Trail Treasure hunt. I found one of the boxes first and won a $100 gift card from Mountain Equipment Co-op and a year long subscription to Canadian Geographic Magazine.

What is the Great Trail Treasure Hunt?

The Great Trail Treasure Hunt is a geocaching-inspired contest aimed at getting Canadians outdoors and discovering all the amazing wildlife, scenery and history to be found along the Great Trail network. As the longest recreational trail in the world, The Great Trail offers a wide range of activities through a variety of landscapes — urban, rural and wilderness, along greenways, waterways and roadways.

 Grabbed a couple of the new caches for the great trail treasure hunt. This year they are doing it a bit different, but still some cool prizes to be had.

Top 50 Geocaching Blogs

I found a site that lists the "Top 50 Geocaching Blogs" out of thousands of blogs, and as I looked thru it I found something cool, as you can see by these pics:

Number 1 spot went to The Geocaching Blog which is direct from Groundspeak.

Number 4 spot went to an Icon in Geocaching, "The Geocaching Vlogger"

Check out who made the 22nd spot. YAY, how cool is that!!! Please read my Blog and follow me on Instagram, Twitter, or Google plus, and check out my blog every month!!!

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Edmonton Trip

I headed to Edmonton, Alberta on July 4th for my Nephew's wedding, and while I was there I did some cool Virtual caches.

Papa, is this our new home?

 Here is the "Great One" and Wayne Gretzky. lol

World's Highest Streetcar Crossing

 Can you see the cache??

I also found a cache called "Ode on a Canadian Urn" which was a cache with just over 200 finds and had 154 Favorite Points, which also helped me achieve the July Geochallenge.

The "Canadian Urn"

 It was a quick 4 day trip, but I had fun.

In Magic News:

On June 15th I competed for the "Peter Reveen Memorial" Variety award out at the Opening Nite Theatre in Mission, BC. I did a couple of mentalism and subliminal bits that I have been working on but have not used on stage as of yet. I thought I would try them out and see how well they do. As you can see by the picture, I think they did just fine!!

2019 Variety performer of the Year

I am looking forward to my upcoming trips where I will be in Las Angeles and Carlsbad, California, then in Las Vegas, Nevada, and then in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan all within the same month!!! Lots of caching planned as well while there. Read about it next month right here!!

Well that's it for this month,

Keep on caching!!

Chris Yuill

Magicman65

BIG NEWS!!!

BIG NEWS!!!

The news of where Geowoodstock XVIII will take place on August 22, 2020 is in!!!
It will be in Canada for the first time ever right here in BC, out in the Fraser Valley at the Abbotsford Trade-X centre. You can log your "will attend" on the cache page "Geowoodstock XVIII"
I went to Geowoodstock VIII back in 2010 and I am looking forward to going to next years Geowoodstock, right here in our backyard!! More exciting news will be added in the following months as the event gets nearer.

"Treasure"

So just recently a movie was released online and DVD about Geocaching. I purchased it immediately and you can check it out at: "Treasure"
Its a story about a girl who loses her way in life, but a new friendship based on the mutual love for Geo-caching and helping out at the local soup kitchen helps her find the meaning of life.
It also has several (at least 10) TB codes placed throughout the movie, for cachers to discover.

Gold Hunt Canada

Some company set up a modern day pirate treasure hunt in 3 cities, including Edmonton, Calgary, and Vancouver called "Gold Hunt Canada" where you had the chance to find $100,000 in gold and silver coins.
They were selling "Treasure Maps" (Actually a long riddle as you can see below in the first pic)
Plus you could also purchase extra clues (Second pic)

It sounds as if they will be doing the Treasure hunt again, and you can be sure I will be involved next time also. I mean who wouldn't want to take home $100,000!!!



NOTE: The highlighted or underlined words in my blog can be clicked on as they are links to other cool stuff!! Also if you click on any of the pictures they become bigger!!!

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In Magic News:

A couple of weekends ago I went over to Victoria and I competed in the Victoria Magic circle's competition for the Wansborough Award for Comedy Magic. (I still maintain my membership in the Victoria Magic Circle)
As you can see by the picture of the newest award on my wall, I did win!!!

YouTube channel

So recently Oliver and I have been doing videos while caching and I have loaded a few up onto our NEW YouTube channel so far. He wanted to start a YouTube channel of his own for caching videos, so I have set one up for us. If you want to check out our progress so far and give us some feedback that would greatly be appreciated.

Please check these out and our new YouTube channel at "Caching with Oliver and Chris", and comment on the videos, and subscribe to our channel. As I get better with editing, they will look a little nicer. lol

Well that's it for this month,

Keep on caching!!

Chris Yuill

Magicman65