Seattle Blackout Challenge: Traditionals! United States
By
fishiam on 10-Jun-09. Waypoint GC1T0ZF
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Completed today at 10:57! Last of four left to blackout Seattle. I met with my geo-buds JohnnyBoy, Grossi, and BrewerMD for the adventure.
I phoned the wife and had her file the original log, and now I am back to tell the rest of the story. My last caches for this blackout were the four paddle caches around Kellogg Island. The cache owner of several of the caches, Funny Nose, was watching from the shore phoning me and giving me friendly encouragement. I knew my geo-bud FN would wait until after I had logged these before he enabled some of his new caches, but I didn't know about the myriad of the other Seattle cachers. I thought I had all but these four to do yesterday, but one cropped up out in Llandover Woods (how does the Woods end up in Seattle??!!) So, I made a quick trip out just for that one cache. And, I checked my email for new caches this morning before I left home. So, I am confident that I now have them all blacked out. For the next 15 minutes, at least.
In the five years I have been caching, I have found a total of 1,607 caches, as of today, within the Seattle city limits. 450 are now archived. Out of the 1,607 caches, 615 were non-traditional, leaving 992 caches done for this part of the challenge. Thank you GSAK for giving me this data.
And thank you Fishiam for having created these challenges. Otherwise, I would never have done many of the Seattle caches. Big cities are my least favorite places to cache. And Seattle is not only big, but is also car unfriendly. No parking, lots of traffic, no parking, can't get there from here, no parking, one way and interdicted streets. And did I say, no parking? Downtown Seattle is the absolute worst. We would only go there on Sunday mornings, and for just the earliest few hours. Once the gotham dwellers arose from their late nite slumber and started to straggle out for their late morning Starbucks fix, the caching was over. I will never forget the drunken bum at the 5 of A Kind cache that staggered up when I had arrived the third time for that day. Finally, no drunks swilling their bottles. Didn't last long. Just as I started to search, up comes this bum, sits down next to me as I am bent over searching, and belches in my face. OK, that's it for the day. Also, I am infamous for my "creative parking." The only time I ever got a parking ticket while caching was on Queen Anne Hill. Now, I admit I deserved it. But, Seattle was laid out street-wise back in the horse and buggy days, and who needed to provide for parking cars back then? There, now that I have spouted off, I feel much better.
Thanks, Fishie, it was one helluva ride!
[This entry was edited by FrodoB on Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 3:50:04 PM.]
I phoned the wife and had her file the original log, and now I am back to tell the rest of the story. My last caches for this blackout were the four paddle caches around Kellogg Island. The cache owner of several of the caches, Funny Nose, was watching from the shore phoning me and giving me friendly encouragement. I knew my geo-bud FN would wait until after I had logged these before he enabled some of his new caches, but I didn't know about the myriad of the other Seattle cachers. I thought I had all but these four to do yesterday, but one cropped up out in Llandover Woods (how does the Woods end up in Seattle??!!) So, I made a quick trip out just for that one cache. And, I checked my email for new caches this morning before I left home. So, I am confident that I now have them all blacked out. For the next 15 minutes, at least.
In the five years I have been caching, I have found a total of 1,607 caches, as of today, within the Seattle city limits. 450 are now archived. Out of the 1,607 caches, 615 were non-traditional, leaving 992 caches done for this part of the challenge. Thank you GSAK for giving me this data.
And thank you Fishiam for having created these challenges. Otherwise, I would never have done many of the Seattle caches. Big cities are my least favorite places to cache. And Seattle is not only big, but is also car unfriendly. No parking, lots of traffic, no parking, can't get there from here, no parking, one way and interdicted streets. And did I say, no parking? Downtown Seattle is the absolute worst. We would only go there on Sunday mornings, and for just the earliest few hours. Once the gotham dwellers arose from their late nite slumber and started to straggle out for their late morning Starbucks fix, the caching was over. I will never forget the drunken bum at the 5 of A Kind cache that staggered up when I had arrived the third time for that day. Finally, no drunks swilling their bottles. Didn't last long. Just as I started to search, up comes this bum, sits down next to me as I am bent over searching, and belches in my face. OK, that's it for the day. Also, I am infamous for my "creative parking." The only time I ever got a parking ticket while caching was on Queen Anne Hill. Now, I admit I deserved it. But, Seattle was laid out street-wise back in the horse and buggy days, and who needed to provide for parking cars back then? There, now that I have spouted off, I feel much better.
Thanks, Fishie, it was one helluva ride!
[This entry was edited by FrodoB on Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 3:50:04 PM.]
