Excuse Newberry Springs, California, United States
By mcattk on 01-Dec-10. Waypoint GC2JZD8

It is just really too bad when a business trip is planned in a place like Las Vegas and I have an opportunity to come early to do a little caching before the meeting. When I found out I was heading to the south west, I made arrangements to do just that. Come down early and hit the Route 66 power trail. I have wanted to do this trail for quite some time. Last year I was down in the area and managed to get the E. T. Highway cleaned up. Of course, I will need to plan a return trip to that trail at some point since they have added quite a few more caches since I got the 1500 that were there last year. For this trip, a good friend, Vulcan64, was able to get some time off and join me for a caching adventure. So we flew down on Tuesday from Sioux Falls and then we worked our way down to Barstow, grabbing a couple of caches along the way. We tried to focus our attention on virtual caches and earth caches for the first night, but there were some terrific targets of opportunity that we could not pass up. In the morning, we took a little walk to grab a nearby cache since breakfast was not ready to be served. Once we got a quick breakfast, we took off for the trail. Once again, there were a few nice targets for us to grab before we made our way down to cache 001. From there we hit the trail with gusto. We did get a couple of other nice caches along the way as well, but our goal was to get the Route 66 trail done in a day. We managed to get it done. What a great trail! We had a lot of fun and we managed to stay safe. Only a few cuts and bumps along the way. By the time we the moon was starting to rise, a beautiful full moon, by the way, we were still about a hundred short of completing the trail. The light of the fading sun was precious, but fleeting. We went as fast as we could, but we ended up finishing in the dark. Good thing we brought flash lights along with us. We signed the logs as VB for Vulcan64 and Beta59. Thanks for all of the great caches, on the trail as well as before, after and in between.

Beta59 and I flew in from S. Dak. on a vacation/business trip. My vacation and his soon to be business conference. Our goal was to do the Route 66 trail in one day. Even though we started rather early we finished the last 100 in the dark. Flashlights were a definite bonus! Logs were signed as VB. TFTC.

My holiday brought me here to this area. Together with a very good friend we made the area unsafe here. Thanks to his service here, we could do all of this in the Ruhr and we had no time pressure. Of course I wanted to take as many caches as possible but the sizing should not be neglected. I also apologize for it only a recurring log is but I rather spend time on the computer than druaßen.

Thanks for laying and bring them also it has given me a lot of fun.

Greetings from Germany

Tigra1517 - D3A

Found today with Scenery Seeker, TFTC

Found with kcorne1, our 4th of 26 today. Had this on our list for tomorrow, but got to Barstow early enough that we came out this afternoon & found it & some of the Route 66 power trail. TFTC.

My sons and I left from the Yuma Mega Event and headed up to Barstow to do the Route 66 and other caches together. We got it done in a day and a half or so. Nice time to spend with them and we thank you for the placement of your caches. Along with our skipandjesie, my sons Cable Cache 1, and CableCache made a stamp for all caches we did.

On our way to the Yuma event, we stopped for a couple of days to do this run we have heard so much around. We had a great couple of days! Thanks...

Don't need much of an excuse to go have fun, we just do it! Thanks for the smiley.

A GRC alongside the road! TFTC

Found it. Wow this one is close to the cars.

Alaska's Team KLM is having fun and getting our Kicks and Kaches on and along Route 66! We enjoyed the warm weather, scenery, and history along the roadway! SL, TFTC, [red]Li1gray[/red]

Getting our caching kicks on Route 66 with micaparamedic, Ozibgs and EB Contax


Thanks for the caching fun

A warm up before starting Route 66 PT, with micaparamedic. TFTC Clan Mac!

Thanks for all the hard work and time it took to place all these caches. Ultrahide and I went on a 10 day epic camping adventure through NM, AZ, CA, NV, UT and back to CO. We ended up with 1,744 caches including 32 virtuals, 6 WIGs and 5 events after 3,080 miles. We had a great time finding these caches. We signed the log as Team NOCO and a TB number. I wish I had the time to log a personal log on each cache like normal but there are way too many to remember the details now. Thanks for the cache. Happy Trails.

Signed this one and the Letter-Box Cache a few feet away. Wonder what the story on that is?

US12. After the Route 66 run it was time to collect the caches along the freeway on the way back to Barstow. Thanks.

7564.957 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Glass Geocoin A#123

Albida

4:38:00 PM: (Count: 265 of 266 )
sure always room for just one more cache, nice detour on our way back to Barstow having done the Route 66 series
This is our second day after managing about 600+ caches yesterday.
After many months waiting we are finally here, we where fortunately enough to meet the cache owners at an event, but even more fortunate to have mild weather.
We completed the series plus a few side caches in about two days and loved it
More detailed log posted on 001-Route 66 ( http://coord.info/GC2Q8GK )
Signed our logs using team name: SAM : (Sol de Lune ,Albida and mtrax)
Hello from Canberra, Australia

After completing the caches in the Route 66 series, the team of myself, Albida and Mtrax continued along the road collecting other caches on offer as we headed back to our digs in Barstow.

Thanks for this one...

The assult on Rt 66 is off and running. Caching with Britpitts......Made a slight detour to get this one from the Rt.66 series.....Thanks for the cache!!

Then we must to make a new plan.
Are we going to the united states or do we stay in The Netherlands. After a long talk we disired to go to the states.
The flight was booked for 8th of Marth.
Now we must to get a hotel to sleep. In Henderison we booked our Hotel.
We have an option to place a extra bed in this room.

A few weeks for we are leeving we come together.
At that moment Geonauten was on this conversation and told us that he going with us to the United States. So we are with tree.

The days before we get to Vegas was Twitter the way to speak.
On the day we left we did a cache in the Netherlands and go with the train to Schiphol Airport.
After a long trip we arived in Las Vegas. We must get a car for all terrain. We desired to rented a Jeep.
We drove to the event of the germans and did some caches.
Then we checked in the hotel and we must sleep. The next day we want to start with the E.T. caches. 4.00 AM we left the hotel and drive for stamp many caches
In the evening / night we are on number 1000. Were we did sleep in the jeep. In the desert is it very hot, but in the night very cold. In the morning we marked 1000 with stones.
After 2 days we finished the trail and al of the 1500 cache are loged. With some other caches we drive to the hotel for a nice sleep.
The next day we do not many caches. Only some oldest GC-numbers.In the evening we had our own event "Meet the dutch". At this event we have sirupwafels from The Netherlands for all of the people.

After the E.T. trail we have not enough from caching, we want to do the Route 66 on one day.
This trail is not so easy but good for the points. Halfway we have make "NL" in stones.
The next day was a toeristday, we did some of caches.
Wednesday we did an other state with many rock caches.

The last day we bring the car back and go back to the Netherlands.

This was a week with nice days new records, great weather, jeep trips, climbing and a lot of fun.

Holiday with Geonauten and Hopmaniak

Al owners thanks for placing all off this caches

Mlvdburg
The Netherlands

About to endure another power trail, but it is warm here. TFTC

Took a break from the Route 66 series to find this one. We ended up with 410 Rte66 caches today plus 15 other caches. Thanks for this one. We ended up stamped the log with our initials SBMG.

Found this cache while working on the Route 66 run. Found 322 caches today! Thanks for placing this one! SL!

A quick diversion from the Route 66 Power Trail