Port of Tacoma

Cache: Port of Tacoma (GCH83C, Traditional)
Difficulty: 1.5
Terrain: 1
Size: Micro

As I was walking from my car into work today (work being at the Port of Tacoma in Washington) I was looking at the observation tower and thought "that would be a great place for a cache." Sure enough I looked online and there was one there. Found it pretty easily, he gave it away in the cache post.




This one was my first bison tube. They look like this. Doesn't that look like fun to search for?










Find #4. 6/26/08 8:50pm

Art of Tacoma: Locomotive Monument

Cache: Art of Tacoma: Locomotive Monument (GCMMMW, Traditional)
Difficulty: 1.5
Terrain: 1
Size: Small


The locomotive monument was placed in '88 to celebrate Tacoma's railroad heritage. Very unique sculpture.

This was a cool cache. Didn't find it the first time I looked for it, but after reading some of the comments on the cache I went back and tried again. Found it pretty quick. This one was actually 2 separate containers placed in close proximity.

**Spoiler** The caches actually looked like they were part of the monument. **End**



Signed the log. Didn't have anything with me for trade.

Find #3 6/23/08 6:50pm

Mission #13, Torpedo Away

So this one was a bust.

Cache: Mission #13, Torpedo Away (GCHRN3, Traditional)
Difficulty: 3
Terrain: 1.5
Size: Micro

This cache was in USS Bullhead Memorial Park. The USS Bullhead was a submarine lost in WWII.
Looked for the cache on 2 different days but never did find it. Wasn't easy to look for it. There were a lot of muggles around. There were several softball fields that were busy with games. Yes I said muggles, thats the term for a non-geocacher. Apparently there's some dickheads out there that will take or move a cache if they find it.

I chalk this one up to inexperience. I will post some pics of the park soon, had a nice memorial to the sailors on board.

ABQ - Airline Crew Cache #2

Cache: ABQ - Airline Crew Cache #2 (GC179A5, Traditional)
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Difficulty: 1.5
Terrain: 1.5
Size: Small

This was the third cache I went looking for. Never found the second one I went after. I blame the GPS. After reading some of the comments, it sounds like the cache was actually hidden in a building. My GPS was showing me outside.

This one was literally right outside my hotel at the bus stop. Took me a few minutes to find, but I did just as I was about the give up. Rather ingenious hide. Cache was an Altoids tin.

Signed the log.

Find #2. 9 June 2008 6:35pm

The Saucers have Landed!

Cache: The Saucers have Landed! (GCVKVV, Traditional)
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Difficulty: 1
Terrain: 1.5
Size: Micro

This was the first cache I went looking for. I actually found it fairly quickly. Was in a nice little park, and I do mean little (My front yard is probably 4 times as large). Cache was a photo canister, remember those?


Just down the block was a very unique house designed by the architect Bart Prince. I'll post some pics of it as soon as I can find my card reader.


Signed the log.

Find: #1
9 June 2008 5:25pm

Meet Signal

So I've decided to create a new blog. This one is going to be dedicated to some of my hobbies. I've picked up a couple new ones lately that I'm pretty excited about.

The first one is photography. I have dabbled a bit here and there and have managed to get some really good shots. But now Romeo has a nice digital SLR (a Canon Rebel XTI for those of you that are interested). I want to start playing with it some more and find out how to use it. So I'll be posting photos that I like. Who knows, maybe I'll get back into digital art and post those here too.

And to my newest hobby...



Meet Signal. Signal is the mascot for geocaching. For those of you who don't know, geocaching is basically a worldwide GPS-based treasure hunt. On sites like geocaching.com there are thousands (or more likely millions) of caches listed that other people have hidden. So you use the GPS and whatever clues they give to find the cache. All of the caches have logbooks and some of them have swag to trade.

I've found a couple of caches already, and I'm going to blog about all of the caches I find or don't find. Some of the caches take you to interesting places that you may normally not go so I will also be posting interesting pics.

I figured this would be a fairly inexpensive (other than the initial cost of a good GPS) hobby I can pick up. I can do it anywhere I am, it gets me out of the hotel, and its all good fun.