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First to Find
When I checked my email about 1 pm, I saw a notice for a new cache. Less than a mile & a half away.
I checked my phone because I normally get notified about ones that close. I saw that I had gotten a notification. May have been what woke me up about 12:30.
After eating and taking care of a few things, I grabbed my bike which I needed to drop off at the bike shop for a tune-up. Since the cache was less than a block off the #71 bus, I decided to look for it. That meant going past where I'd transfer to get to the bike shop, but what the heck.
The hint said it was in an ammo box near a tree off an alley. Got to the alley and there were two trees near the co-ords. One looked more likely than the other. But I didn't see anything. The other had a bit of a pile of brush next to it. A bit of poking convinced me that it'd been there too long (half buried in thre dirt etc).
So I went back to the other. It had a big trunk and was wedged into the open end of a triangular space between a garage and a fence.
There didn't seem to be anything behind the trunk and just bare ground in front. Then I thought I caught a glimpse of something under some branches at the narrow end of the space.
This led to several minutes of trying to contort myself to get past the tree trunk to get to where I could get to the cache container.
Finally got to the container and got it open. And much to my shock, even though it'd been over two hours since it had been posted, I was the first person to get to the cache!
That was a shock, given that I was the *third* person to a cache half a mile from here that got posted at 11pm on a dark & stormy night. and I got there only 20 minutes after it was posted!\
So I have my first FTF (first to find).
Getting out after signing the log and replacing the cache was even more fun. But I managed.
Walked the bike back to a bus stop and then decided I wasn't *that* far from the bike shop. So I rode it a few blocks, walked a few more up a slope and then rode the rest of the way. Dropped it off and got the estimate.
Besides the money for the tune-up (which I'd had set aside) it looks like it may be another $25-30 for parts like brake pads. I sent![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fayanora a text and she's willing to loan it to me until my SSI payment at the start of the month.
Since there was another cache on the bus route (12) I'd be taking from the bike shop, I took the bus up there. Couldn't find it (and when I got home, I found that the last 3 folks to try hadn't been able to either). Looks like it fell victim to a landscaping crew.
Oh well, I can try for more later. Walked over to Prescott and caught the bus home.
Definitely out of shape. But between being able to bus around to look for caches and ride the bike with *all* gears available (rather than just the middle 7) I should be getting more exercise.
I checked my phone because I normally get notified about ones that close. I saw that I had gotten a notification. May have been what woke me up about 12:30.
After eating and taking care of a few things, I grabbed my bike which I needed to drop off at the bike shop for a tune-up. Since the cache was less than a block off the #71 bus, I decided to look for it. That meant going past where I'd transfer to get to the bike shop, but what the heck.
The hint said it was in an ammo box near a tree off an alley. Got to the alley and there were two trees near the co-ords. One looked more likely than the other. But I didn't see anything. The other had a bit of a pile of brush next to it. A bit of poking convinced me that it'd been there too long (half buried in thre dirt etc).
So I went back to the other. It had a big trunk and was wedged into the open end of a triangular space between a garage and a fence.
There didn't seem to be anything behind the trunk and just bare ground in front. Then I thought I caught a glimpse of something under some branches at the narrow end of the space.
This led to several minutes of trying to contort myself to get past the tree trunk to get to where I could get to the cache container.
Finally got to the container and got it open. And much to my shock, even though it'd been over two hours since it had been posted, I was the first person to get to the cache!
That was a shock, given that I was the *third* person to a cache half a mile from here that got posted at 11pm on a dark & stormy night. and I got there only 20 minutes after it was posted!\
So I have my first FTF (first to find).
Getting out after signing the log and replacing the cache was even more fun. But I managed.
Walked the bike back to a bus stop and then decided I wasn't *that* far from the bike shop. So I rode it a few blocks, walked a few more up a slope and then rode the rest of the way. Dropped it off and got the estimate.
Besides the money for the tune-up (which I'd had set aside) it looks like it may be another $25-30 for parts like brake pads. I sent
fayanora a text and she's willing to loan it to me until my SSI payment at the start of the month.Since there was another cache on the bus route (12) I'd be taking from the bike shop, I took the bus up there. Couldn't find it (and when I got home, I found that the last 3 folks to try hadn't been able to either). Looks like it fell victim to a landscaping crew.
Oh well, I can try for more later. Walked over to Prescott and caught the bus home.
Definitely out of shape. But between being able to bus around to look for caches and ride the bike with *all* gears available (rather than just the middle 7) I should be getting more exercise.