Articulated Steam Locomotive California, United States
By Ginny & Stevecat on 21-Dec-11. Waypoint GC395VG

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.

13964.146 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2009 Compass Rose Silver Glossy A#158

Albida

12:29:00 PM: (146 of 209) Find#5532

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....

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.

We've come to the desert to escape this years endless New England winter, find sunshine and to pick up some caches. We have succeeded!!! TFTC

A1D2 (Vermont)

OK, so now I'm going to blame my low blood sugar. My rate on this find dropped to 3 minutes in between caches. That's just unacceptable. Yeah right. I think most people would be very happy with a three minute rate between finds if they were flying solo and weren't swapping out containers. I actually think it would take longer to swap out doing it solo.

Either way, it took three minutes for this one. And it's time for a diversion cache anyway.

Found at 11:17 AM. All Aboard.

Thanks for the hide.

I put together team 8-IC (8- Island cachers) and we are on a 8 day caching trip doing power trails. We are from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. This was a great series and the roads were good with a regular cars with just a few minor slow spots. We saw no critters and great weather. Thank you for all the hard work that goes into doing a power trial like this. A different type of caching than we we are used to at home.. Geocaching My Way of Life..Paulboy

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