Route 66 - Message in a Bottle California, United States
By desertseven on 23-Jul-11. Waypoint GC30XKN

Found but not a bottle anymore.

”Out caching with Whimppeys and finishing up the RT 66 series we started a year or so ago. Had a blast doing this power trail and enjoyed all the history of this area.”

We had a great time finishing the Route 66 Trail with Barb N Gene. It was Mr. Whimppey's Birthday weekend.

Had a little run of caches this morning before the heat became unbearable. Nearly stepped on a sidewinder at #369. He was on the road side of the raised berm - please watch your step! Leaving the heat for the 80s of Las Vegas for a while. TFTCs!

TFTC! In the area for some fun. Here with Vegaschick and we met up with Habu! while here.

Found on my return back to vegas after visiting Great Grandma. TFTF

Holiday power cache run! We came here exactly a year ago to start the series, today we finished! Thanks to all that placed and maintain this series. All quick grabs even when we got punchy near the end!

I had wanted to finish this Series for sometime. After a discussion with some fellow cachers we formed a group of three ; Cache O' Plenty, Larry The Pool Guy, and Pars18. Cache O' Plenty put together a plan that would complete the Route 66 Series for both Larry the pool guy and Pars18, but he would still have to return another day in the future to finish it. We ended up getting all the numbered caches plus some extra ones that were added or had originally been there . We really had a great time thanks to Larry (Larry The Pool Guy) and Steve (Cache O' Plenty) for joining our team. This one was at a Gas Stop in the middle of no where. The guy here was very nice in helping me to locate the cache. We did not need anything but thanked him for his help. I took a picture of this while there. Thanks to desertseven for placing this cache for our fun.

Pars18, Larry the pool guy and I headed out to the Route 66 series today for a full day of power trail caching. Since pars18 and Larry the pool guy had already completed the first half, we started at #381 and headed east. That allowed both of them to complete the series. I, on the other hand, will have to return to complete the first half. We also augmented our run to include all of the Non-Route 66 caches along the way. Made for quite a long day and a new one-day record for me. As we proceeded, we repaired any that needed some TLC and replaced some broken ones. Now I need to resupply my stash of containers!

Had a great day and perfect weather. Thanks to desert seven for this cache. Got a great history lesson along the way.

Also was amused to note that the number of trains we saw greatly outnumberd the vehicles on the road. Trans = 7, vehicles = 3 for the first three hours.

This was just one of the many caches found by us today. TFTC-SL Apparently the establishment owner knows about this cache - he pointed us in the right direction.

My day started out at 4:00 am when I first got in the pool truck to drive up to the meeting spot at McDonalds near the Lake Silverwood Exit. Sitting in their cars ready to go was Pars 18 and CacheOPlenty. At 6:30 am our group starting finding hides and stamping logs this pattern continued till 5:30 pm. The desert was kind to our group today with little wind and cool temperatures. Thanks to all that placed caches for me to find. I now have a new one day record !NICE

2nd day of power trail,we finished it off just the 2 of us wife and i. signed log W26,we are sure glad that it is over because by the end of the 2nd day i was getting sore from jumping berms and running up and down little hills. thanks to all the C.O.'S who put these out did 440 today (399 from rt66 the rest from various C.O.'S ) . i can say with great clarity now i will be doing more power runs.!!

I stopped by here today only to discover that I had made the find last year and forgot to log it.

Out caching and camping in the desert. Thanks for the series!

The property supervisor said that the bottles come up missing every now and then.
TFTCSL

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

Stopped off for a break from the route 66 PT here. Had a route 66 root beer or two to cool down, with micaparamedic and Earthbound Chief. Then onwards to comlete the PT. TFTC desertseven.

Was so looking forward to logging this find especially as we came from Australia to do it. After finding that the premises had no electricity at the time of our visit which prevented us from refueling our vehicles, it soon became obvious to the owner that we were preoccupied with the search for the cache. The owner interjected with a game of hot and cold thus leading us to the cache or so he thought. As we reached the hot GZ we found zip, zero, nothing, to which the owner said. "it was there yesterday" and was of the opinion that someone must have either souvenired it or maybe thinking it was just an empty soda pop bottle probably threw it in the bin (quick search of bins ensued with no joy). Boo Hoo will have to come back another day.

Stopped here for a cold drink. TFTH

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.

2:23:00 PM: (Count: 466 of 602 )
Funny story we when to look for the cache and it wasn't there but as it turns out the locals knew about the hide and where happy to provide a new container to replace the old one which I guess some tourist must have souvineered.. doh.. but the good folks at the dinner more than happy too help, great huh so with a new container and log we could mark this as found.
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. When we pulled up here there was a party going on, music, outside sellers and vans refueling. After Mtrax and I poked around a bit, we decided to talk to the station occupants. The Lady in charge knew all about the the bottle, and was quite dismayed to see it had gone. She found a new R66 Bottle and provided a card for a log and we were all set. I hope that was all right by you. Thanks.

7160.553 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Planisphere A#103

Albida

Grabbed while out along Route 66 with Albida and Mtrax.

Thanks for the cache......

Way different kind of hide from what we have gotten used to, great way to mix it up a little.