Marrakesh Express Hinkley, California, United States
By Ginny & Stevecat on 21-Dec-11. Waypoint GC395R6

Found it while out caching with Baby Girl Sherry. Did maintenance on all the caches replaced the missing ones and replaced all the logs. Thanks for the fun the hide and the smiley. Keep the caches coming!

Found it while out caching with RdDrgn22. Did maintenance on all the caches replaced the missing ones and replaced all the logs. Thanks for the fun the hide and the smiley. Keep the caches coming!

This road trip was hatched about a year ago by Tycoon Otto and myself. The original plan was to go back down to the US and hit some power trails, but it morphed into a 13 day, 17,500km geo-odyssey. During this road trip I had several highlights:

1) Got my 7,000th cache and well onto my way to 8,000.
2) Signed 1,026 caches in a single day (HMD power trail California).
3) Visited 18 states in one single 24 hour period.
4) Got 12 different cache types in a single day.
5) Visited "Mingo" the oldest active cache in the world.
6) Signed 1,548 caches during this 13 day period.
7) Cached in 48 states.

More importantly, there were several memories and sites I will never forget. I thoroughly enjoyed the town of St. Charles, Missouri and Cadillac ranch on Route 66.

I will post a picture of our track log in GCZ02V (Seeing Seagulls) and GCMQ1X (Weigh up), the first and last caches in this road trip.

As always caching with Tycoon Otto was a blast. Thanks again for a great caching experience.

To all the cache owners that made this possible, thanks for the cache and happy caching!!!

Here is a brief summary of each day:

Day 1 - May 15th - Washington, Oregon and California (10 caches)
Day 2 - May 16th - California - car repair took away the morning did half a power trail before moving on (253 caches)
Day 3 - May 17th - California - (HMD power trail - 1,026 caches in 16 hours, it worked out to a cache every 56 seconds on average) - not my finest hour, as got a speeding ticket trying to get to a hotel to sleep
Day 4 - May 18th - Nevada, Arizona, Utah and New Mexico (10 caches)
Day 5 - May 19th - Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi (13 caches)
Day 6 - May 20th - Alabama and Florida (2 caches)
Day 7 - May 21st - 24 hour run (12:01am to 11:59pm) - 18 states - Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Maine (20 caches)
Day 8 - May 22nd - Vermont, New York (again), Pennsylvania (again), Ohio (again), Michigan, and Indiana (12 caches)
Day 9 - May 23rd - Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri (26 caches)
Day 10 - May 24th - St Charles for Geowoodstock XII - 12 cache types in one day - Letterbox, CITO, Event, Wherigo, Multi, Earthcache, Traditional, Mystery, Virtual, Mega, Lab, Benchmark, we actually did a webcam too, but listing was locked by Groundspeak (27 caches plus 10 lab caches)
Day 11 - May 25th - signed "Mingo" cache - Kansas, Colorado, and Nebraska (108 caches)
Day 12 - May 26th - completed a 5 cache - 5 state challenge - Nebraska, South Dakoda, Wyoming, North Dakoda and Montana (35 caches)
Day 13 - May 27th - Montana and Idaho, return to Kelowna (5 caches)

The DRCC (Desert Rats Cache Crew - myself, Marbleguy, and Wawindaji) Have come west from CT. Today we drove from Vegas to Barstow. We did several different power trails and managed over 500 caches today. The weather today was sunny, and warm so much nicer than New England where it is still cool (30's at night to @60 in the day). Thanks to the cache owners for placing the caches for us to find.

The Desert Rats Caching Crew has hit some more of the Southern California desert today for another caching adventure. Today we began our journey in Las Vegas and then headed to the Barstow area for some power trails. We cached today from early in the day to quite late at night.. Thanks.

US14 ET Highway Trip with Sol de Lune and Mtrax. Day 3. This was our first day caching, and it was full on desert caching with the Planes Trans and Automobiles series on the menu. Thanks.

13949.131 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2010 Cache Hard A#174

Albida

12:07:00 PM: (130 of 209) Find#5516

Staying in Barstow for a few days so used it as a base to cache the area, Barstow day 2
headed out to do the planes , trains and auto series in our 2WD, with no real issues with the road

Logged as "SAM" which is a team of three Sol De Lune, Albida33 and Mtrax. Visiting the US as a team for the 2nd time, our mission to complete the ET series but before and after do some more exploring and geocaching along the way. Our tour starts around Barstow and a few days in Las Vegas before caching over to 29 Palms before hitting the ET Highway straying at Rachel and Tonapah.
Our second stage of our trip saw us doing a loop around Wyoming, Nebraska, Sth & Nth Dakota and Montana before finishing back in Los Angles, our finds for the trip totalled well over 4,000 geocaches.

Found with Albida and mtrax on day 2 of our 4 week 2014 US adventure. Logs were signed as S.A.M...

Enjoyed driving along the roads here and after arriving at the GZ, the cache was soon in hand. Log signed and we off to the next one.....

Great to be back in the area again and grabbing a few more of your caches.

Thanks for the fun and the find....

Visiting my sister in Apple Valley. Got up at the crack of dawn to finish off the Planes, Trains and Automobile series. Not sure what they have in those big piles but it sure stinks!! TFTH TFTC

Having a great time in the desert with dix1 and the oldones.

Fun time with Dix and Del2u Thanks for placing it

Having a great time in the desert with del2u and the oldones.

Looking at the world through the sunset in your eyes,
Traveling in the train through clear Moroccan skies
Ducks and pigs and chickens call,
animal carpet wall to wall
American ladies five-foot tall in blue.
Sweeping cobwebs from the edges of my mind,
Had to get away to see what we could find.
Hope the days that lie ahead
bring us back to where they've led
listen not to what's been said to you.

Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express.
Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express,
they're taking me to Marrakesh.
All on aboard the train.
All on aboard the train.

I've been saving all my money just to take you there.
I smell the garden in your hair.
Take the train from Casablanca going south,
blowing smoke rings from the corners of my m m m m mouth.
Colored cottons hang in the air,
charming cobras in the square.
Striped djellebas we can wear at home.
Well, let me hear ya now.

Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express.
Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express,
they're taking me to Marrakesh.
Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express.
Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express,
they're taking me to Marrakesh.
All on board the train,
All on board the train,
All on board!

Found at 12:08 PM. Oops. I'm slipping. All Aboard!

Thanks for the hide.

Another long day with team [8]-IC. We drove a lot and had no problems with our 2 wheel standard in this part of the desert. Had a blast and enjoyed the flora and fauna.
We replaced a few caches (blown by the wind) and signed the logs as 8-IC.
Thanks to all the cache owners for placing the caches and/or series.

Found with Team [8]-IC. Our caching crew from Canada. The cachers names are Sheesh695, Paulboy, JuRuu, crkayaker, Bornwild62, Losthiker and myself, Cougar Kid. Thanks for the Caches

Back to the desert with a group of cachers from Vancouver Island, BC. After staying in Twentynine Palms overnight we headed out very early in the morning again to do the Planes, Trains & Automobiles series. It was a long day but we had a lot of fun, The weather was great. Signed the logs 8-IC (8 Island Cachers). Thanks for placing the caches.

Team 8 I-C (8 island cachers) spent the day doing the trains,planes and automobiles series.The weather cooperated,the trails were dry and we didn't run into any critters that were scary..lol.Thanks for all the work you put into this and thanks for the flashback to the past with some of the conversations that ensued regarding some of the old cars.TFTH

found these on the third day of a geocaching adventure with 8-IC