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

Travel is fun!!

McLeod Lake

 Booked a show in McLeod Lake which is about 2 hours north of Prince George. Flew into PG and rented a car, and then headed up the highway towards McLeod Lake. 

My show was in a small community by the lake. I only found 4 caches while here.

I felt there should have been a cache at this location.

But there was not!!

On the way back to the airport the next day, I stopped for a visit with Mr. PG

I visited him on one of my last trips up here but it was in December and minus 20. BRRRRRRRRRR

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Edmonton Trip

Went to Edmonton, Alberta the day after I got home from Prince George, for a visit with family, and was able to grab several caches while in town. 

Also did a Free show for the Senior Centre that my Mom lives at.

Got a total of 9 Traditional caches, 5 Wherigo caches, and 1 puzzle cache.

Got 25 stages of AL's also,

got 13 of those stages while the plane was coming into the gate still. lol

 

This was a cool cache hide I found in Edmonton

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Penticton Trip

Booked a show in Penticton, and went there the night before and stayed in Summerland, so we could do some caching on the way there as well as during the day before my show

Did a bunch of caches in and around Summerland

Then we also went to Peachland for just one cache that had 128 favorite points on it.

This was the cache box on the back of the Peachland sign, but to open it, you needed a special tool that was nearby.

Here it was open, very cool. We added 2 more Favorite points to this cache!!

Found a total of 18 Traditional's, 1 multi, 1 wherigo, and 1 Puzzle that was really cool and more like a multi, and at every stage there was a different method to figure out, to get you to the next stage. 

This was at the first stage of "NOT Just Another Pile of Geo-Sticks"

You had to count the knots in the strings to get the co-ord's to the next stage.

The second Stage was just info but if you don't know how to project a waypoint or have the appropriate app to do so, you would be very confused. 

To get to the Last Stage you needed to convert the coordinates from UTM format to GPS also known as WGS84 format

We also did 5 Adventure labs with a total of 24 stages.

At the end of September I am going to Salmon Arm again for a corporate gig. I was thru there back in May and Susan and I were thru there a few years back. Gonna get several caches on the way there and in town, also in the beginning of October, I will be boarding the Holland America's Eurodam and heading south to Santa Barbera and San Diego of but more about that in Next Month's Blog.........

Well that's it for this month!!

Keep on caching!!

Chris Yuill

Magicman65

International Geocaching Day!!!

International Geocaching Day!!!

August 16th is International Geocaching Day. If you find a cache, Adventure Lab, or attend an Event you get this souvenir  

All you had to do is log a cache between Aug.15th to the 17th

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I got a second Souvenir on the 16th called the Memory Maker

Seems like we sometimes get these for no real reason. lol

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I got a couple more First to Find's this past month, bringing my FTF total up to 493 FTF's. Who knew when I got my first FTF in 2009, that I would be continuing today in looking for them.

Looking forward to FTF number 500!!!

Myra Canyon Trip

I am making a list of caches for an upcoming trip to Kelowna and Penticton. Hoping to bike ride the Myra Canyon Trestle trail just outside of Kelowna, and grab the caches there in September. Plus we will grab several caches on the way to the trail and then more on the way to Penticton, where I have a show the next day.

Myra Canyon is a section of the historic Kettle Valley Railway near Kelowna, British Columbia, now a 24 km round-trip recreational trail featuring 18 wooden trestles and two tunnels, known for its engineering heritage and scenic views. The trail is a popular destination for hiking and cycling, accessible to most fitness levels, though safety precautions are needed due to steep drops and rough surfaces. The area was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1995 for its outstanding engineering achievement in railway construction through mountainous terrain.

Heading to McLeod Lake thru Prince George in a couple of days, and then back home and then off to Edmonton, Alberta the next day. Gonna be there for about a week to visit, and hope to grab a cache or two, but more about these adventures and more in next months blog......

Well that's it for this month!!

Keep on caching!!

Magically yours,

Chris Yuill

Magicman65