Lightning McQueen Newberry Springs, California, United States
By bingopat1 on 02-Apr-11. Waypoint GC2R79C

Grabbed this one on our way to the power trail. Signed logs as C-C. TFTC!

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.

Beta 59 and I flew into Las Vegas on Tues. afternoon to start our adventure. We headed out to Barstow, Ca. as this would be our starting point to begin the Route 66 caching trail. Our goal we set for ourselves was to try to get all the trail done in one day. This was my first trip to the area. Certainly different than South Dakota. Warmer and drier. During this trip I was able to make some new records and add to some current ones. I appreciate all the work involved in making this trail. I enjoyed the whole day. Doing a trail like this with a good friend really makes it go so much better. We signed the logs as V B. TFTC. bingopat1

Well, I have a weeks vacation and have to pick up my wife in Wyoming at the end of it so decided to do some much needed geocaching and wanted to hit some of the desert caches before it got any hotter this year. Weather was perfect for doing some of the desert series and got to see some great sights along the way. Thanks to all the cache owners along the way. TFTC

Together with Hallén, joy.se and TMT68 on a two week trip to the US. We logged all caches with our initials HIJT unless logged as our single nicks.
Target was to visit some trails and inbetween do some limited sightseeing. We limited the caching hours to daylight time only but days became long anyhow.
Trip was planned already 6 month back in time and a very good preparation work on the details made this trip widely exceed the targets we had set.
Weather conditions were excellent except the day with 108 degrees F we faced in the Mojave desert. Not one single drop of rain, only sun and a mostly cloud free clear sky all the time called for quite some dust to face !

Many thanks go to all CO who made this trip become real with so many caches at nice places including the great power trails .

TFTC from Ingabo in Sweden.

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.

Quick find! TFTC!

Team CIA left Las Vegas 4 am for Route 66 power trail. The drive to the Bagdad Cafe took around 1.5 hour and in one of the higher passes we went though a little snow storm. Had a quick,but tasty breakfast at the Famous or Infamous Bagdad Cafe and took a couple of photos of the group, then we were off on the longest day of caching I have ever done or most likely ever do again. Very memorable. Thanks for this fun series.

Caching as the CIA Team, we left Vegas a 4am, breakfast at the Bagdag Cafe, now onto the caches leading up to Route 66. Looks like a long day! TFTH

Found with the CIA team on the last day of our caching adventure. If anyone ever told me I'd get up at 3:00 in the morning to go caching, I would have said they were crazy, but that is exactly what I did this morning. It was worth it. This was my first time in California and caching Route 66 made it a trip I will never forget. Thanks to all for placing these caches.

On holidays from Australia we had planned on doing a spot of caching whilst in and around Barstow and Las Vegas. One of our goals was to complete the Route 66 series. Early start, late finish was in order and after a long 15+ hours, we completed the series and some extra's along the way. Wow what an experience that was! FurfacesLL No 2 sprained her ankle on the Yermo series, and FurfacesLL No 1 was down with a cold, So we were very pleased with ourselves. A days' rest then off to tackle the ET Highway! Thanks to the cache owners for all the work in maintaining these caches.

Found in the company of Earthbound Chief, aka Dad on our 'Boys Own Adventure' after I spent the summer working in Michigan and before going home to Australia. A drive along the Route 66 was a must! TFTC

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


Thanks for the caching fun

On a Route 66 power trail bash with micaparamedic. Greetings from Australia. TFTC

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.

6:33:00 AM: (Count: 11 of 602 )
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 000-Route 66 ( http://coord.info/GC2Q8GK )
Signed our logs using team name: SAM : Sol de Lune ,Albida and mtrax)
Hello from Canberra, Australia

US12. On the way to the R66 there were several "pre" caches. A great way to warm up with Sol de Lune and Mtrax as Team S.A.M. Thanks.

6705.98 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & The 12 Days of caching Orange A#57

Albida

Another find for the day as Sol de Lune, Albida and Mtrax headed for the Route 66 trail. A quick find and we were off for the next one.

Thanks for this find...

Warming up for an assult on Rt 66. Caching with Britpitts......Thanks for the cache!!

Enjoyed the movie and now the powertrail. I wonder what the plot of the new movie will be about after the first one was all about turneing McQueen into a nice character. Thanks bingopat1.