Defence Oral, South Dakota, United States
By James Bridger on 27-May-12. Waypoint GC3MB02

Placed in a new ziplog. SL Traveling from California to cache in five states we need. Spent the night in Rapid City and enjoying some more caches on our way on Nebraska Thanks for sharing with us.

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)

We are on a quest to make finds in each of the counties of Wyoming and Fall River County, SD was so close we had to venture over here for a few select geocaches. We did the pen and log-sheet thing and put all back as found. Thanks for the hide.

One of twenty nine caches found today with Rachelhead and UltraViolet on day three of our six state, twelve day extravaganza.

Thanks!

TNLNSL, TFTC!

US14 ET Highway Trip with Sol de Lune and Mtrax. Day 20. Time to cross a few more US states of the list for Caching, starting in Casper, Wyoming. The time has come to head East for a bit. We drove from Casper to Rapid City, stopping at as many caches as Time allowed along the way. Thanks.

17652.33 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6

Albida

12:53:00 PM: (33 of 46) Find#9193

Traveling from Caper to Chadron to do a quick trip into Nebraska and then heading up to Rapid City, South Dakota Mainly to collect a few more US states but do some caching and exploring along the way.

Greetings from Canberra Australia.
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, South & Nth Dakota and Montana before finishing back in Los Angles, our finds for the trip totalled well over 4,000 geocaches.

Visiting from Australia and found with Albida and mtrax during our 4 week US adventure...

Took a few minutes, but cache was found and all was good.

Thanks for another one and greetings from Australia.....

Team Doughboy heading home after a weekend of geocaching in the panhandle of Nebraska with Team G/K stopped to pick this one up as we headed North. TFTF, SL

We’re on the downhill side of our vacation and caching on the way home.
We should just call this “James Bridger” day as most of our finds were
hidden by him. We appreciate all his caches along with everyone else’s.
Signed most caches with WB & G. Great hide with a great name.

WOW! JIM BRIDGER all this way from Valentine. A lot on info in a name sometimes. SL TFTC

TFTH - Very HOT day, so, well you know...

Made the 5 hr drive to Kimball NE early this morning for a couple hours of work. So to avoid falling asleep on the return drive back, a geocache stop here and there was perfect! This cache was one of my stops. tftc!