Logs for chaosmanor 

Yeah, the name of this cache *is* a tad on the snarky side, but at least we aren't charged a tariff to use it You are right, though, this facility has really improved over the years, and it is in tip-top shape

It is inevitable that, when given four choices, or six, or a dozen, we find what we seek in the 4th, or the 6th, or the 12th of all the possibilities. Such was the case here. But at least we got it! There used to be a cache here, many years ago, which we never could come up with. One of the two travelers listed as being here actually was here, so we took it with us on our redwoods vacation. Thanks!l 

Two Travel Bugs are listed as being in this cache. One of them is ours; it was dropped off over a year ago, but no one mentions any TBs in their Find logs, so we have no idea if they are still there, or not. It would be *very* much appreciated if the next person to Find this cache would at least post to the TB pages. Even better would be to retrieve them and move them somewhere else. Thank you! 

One last note, as I figured out the code that I goofed up 

Another note to drop off trackables. I had absolutely no cell coverage in Nebraska or Kansas (guess Sprint doesn't like the Plains, or vice versa), so could not drop them off sooner than the next morning. Four of eight had already been retrieved, so I retrieved three of them (can't find the fourth, so I must've thumb-fingered the number) and am dropping them off for the mileage. Sure wish folks could be just ever so slightly patient. 

Note to drop off trackables left here. Find log to follow. FWIW, 77 trackables were listed as being in this cache, but not a single one was in it when we got here in the late afternoon 

OK, so what can we add to this cache's story that others have not said a dozen or a hundred times already? Just this, perhaps: we had come from Southern California, by way of lots of scenic and historic places, to see the total solar eclipse. We were heading back to Estes Park, but took a detour (as many others who saw the eclipse did) to pick up this venerable cache, thus clearing out another month for the Jasmer challenges, leaving only June, July, August and October of 2000 to qualify. We met rungirl159 here, as she was about to leave the area after getting this: very nice to meet you! There were absolutely no TBs or geocoins in the cache, although more than 70 are listed: very disappointing that so many travelers have been waylaid We left eight travelers, all of which appear to have been picked up and moved along, and we picked up the two pathtags in the cache Thank you very much for keeping this going! 

Someone posted this puzzle on a FB group, and I just had to solve it I greatly enjoyed it and just wanted to thank you for it. We live in The States, and Australia is on our Bucket List, but the odds of us actually visiting get smaller by the day: So It Goes. 

After nearly a week in Nevada and Utah, it was time to head for home, but we picked up a few more caches on our way out. We had not loaded any traditional caches in our PQ (although we did see a couple of them worth looking for on the Better Half's iPad), so after getting a virt on Tropicana, this was the next virtual to the south, so we spent about 20 minutes trying to figure out how to get here. Yeah, we know: follow the GPSr arrow. Tell that to the streets and freeway off-ramps Eventually we made it, and we spent 15-20 minutes here, enjoying the arrivals and departures. Definitely worth the stop and the time: thanks!

BTW: there is a similar place south of LAX, in El Segundo. While although not as close, it's on a hill, so you can still get some nice views. There are also a few free telescopes, and lots of room to set up tripods and cameras, with no restrictions other than not blocking the sidewalk.

My only questions about this spot are these: are humans "objects"? And what exactly does the title of this cache really mean? 

And so our time in Lost Wages comes to an end. We chose today as our departure date because we did *not* want to be on the roads on the Friday of a three-day weekend And it worked out well; I-15 was pretty empty for almost the entire drive to Victorville, CA. In fact, there was more traffic on CA-18/138/14 than there was on the Interstate.

But we couldn't leave town before picking up another couple of virtuals. This one was just down the street from our time-share, so it made for an easy drive-by. Took some photos and got the virtual That-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named that is here. Also verified that the benchmark listed as being across the street is gone; the small disk that is there is definitely not the right one. All in all, a good way to begin the ending of our trip. Thanks! 

We took a trip from our room in Vegas to Hoover Dam, and we stopped in Boulder City to do a couple of virtuals. This was quite a lot of fun, as it was at least 15 degrees cooler here than it was in Vegas We wandered all through the little park, admiring the artwork, some of which we liked, some, not so much. But that's the nature of public sculpture! Thanks for bringing us here; we likely never would have found it on our own. 

After doing the Art virtual a little west of here, we started to head back to what I thought was the highway, but then I saw this virt not too far away, so we turned around and headed over here. Spent a few minutes looking for parking, then ambled over to admire the object. Big, isn't it? Took some photos, and then headed for Hoover Dam, or so I thought. We wound up going the wrong way, as I hadn't realized that there was a (new?) routing for 93, and I completely missed the big sign 30 feet from this cache. Wound up way in the south end of town, but eventually managed to get back on track, without asking for help. Makes for an interesting story. Tourists! What can you do, eh? Thanks! 

We had taken a day-trip to Hoover Dam from our room in Vegas, but I wanted to drive across the new bridge, just because we could, and as long as we were here, and so close to this cache, I figured that we should look for it. Went right by the way to it on the first pass, and almost missed it the second time, but I realized that what looked like nothing much was really the right way. Got here easily after that Read the plaques and such, and thought that, if it were 20 degrees cooler, a hike would have been nice, but it wasn't going to happen today. Have to come back here in February or March, see if the flowers are blooming. Stumbled across the answer to the question, although we had pictures, too. Thanks for getting us here! Learning about local history always makes our trips more enjoyable

FWIW, there is a physical cache (GC4388) along US 101 a dozen miles or so west of Santa Barbara, that is at a bridge very much like this one, and from the same general time period. We adopted it when the original CO moved to Oregon. Check it out if you are ever out that way. 

The Better Half of the team works at one of the manufacturing facilities that is on LAWA land. It had an open house-barbeque-carnival sort of thing today, for employees and their families. Afterward, we stopped by here for this cache. The other half told the story of "Hahn's Folly", and then we looked for the cache. Found it quickly, but had a bit of trouble retrieving it, as it kept moving away. I put something in there that might help keep it from slithering away. Thanks for this cache in an interesting, sad, forgotten corner of The Southland. 

Cute This reminds me of a similar cache that had some Easter-themed stuff in the same sort of place. That one was down in the Long Beach area, if memory serves. This one definitely worked easier with two of us! Thanks  

Webfoot and I came out here to play a different GPS-based game, but we grabbed a few caches, did some trainspotting and took many photographs, as long as we were here He had gotten this cache a few years ago, but he was willing to stop to let me get it, and we took a number of photos of the nearby ancient artifact, as well as more recent ones. The cache was easily found and is in fine shape. Thanks! 

DON'T GO DOWN THERE!!

Yeah, this was one of those where, if we had really read the whole write-up, I might have saved myself some hassle. Maybe I should make it clear that YOU DON'T NEED TO GO DOWN THERE!!

At least the fallen tree gave me something to hold onto while I tried to keep from sliding down the hill. It helped a lot more when I clambered back up after Webfoot said that he had it.

Anyway, just because I don't want anyone else to go through all that hassle, I really should say DON'T GO DOWN THE HILL!!!!

Thanks  

Got a nice chuckle out of this one Webfoot wasn't too sure about it, as there was that pesky Adventure Pass sign at the driveway, and we hadn't picked up our pass, yet, but I convinced him to let me out so that I could search while he drove around the commodes. That wound up being a pointless exercise, as no one was around, anyway, but you never know. In any event, this is clever, and nicely done, although it will be interesting to see how it handles Winter. Thanks! 

So many spectacular views along this road! Hard to keep track of them all, which might explain why I thought that it was the previous cache that I dropped a TB into. Now that I read my notes a little more carefully, I see that it wasn't that one, but *this* one At least I was able to fix it. Thanks for another fine view, and the cache! 

Well, it certainly would have been nice if this one could be used for the Alphabet Challenge cache, but one can't win them all As a life-long fan of Edward Gorey, I certainly appreciate the inspiration Thanks! 

Time to bury some more lost souls: 10 geocoins that have gone missing over the past year-and-a-half. Hope they all find some peace. Maybe one or two of them will come back to life  

Five more geocoins of ours that have gone missing. Ave atque vale! 

Our last cache in the GW6 portion of our vacation: we grabbed this while taking a big loop up from Wheatland and then over to I-5 and down to Santa Cruz. Not the most direct route, but we really wanted to get this cache, as long as we were up this way for the Big Bash Nice to see that this is still going: thanks for that! Easy find and in an interesting area. Did a little bird-watching after doing the logging and such (dropped in a long, narrow geocoin and took the digital fish), which is how the GPSr came to be left here Jim of the team left it on the car while watching swallows and other birds, and then just sort of forgot about it 15-20 minutes later, while at the CSHM for the Thompson Seedless Grape, he (me, actually; I do all the logging of caches; Sharon hates doing it) went to grab the GPSr to get the coords for Waymarking, and it wasn't there! Knew it had to be here, so back we drove. Found it on the ground just a few feet from where we had parked If not for Lady de Coverly, we might not have noticed the missing gizmo for a hundred miles or more [:o)] 

We feel very lucky to be able to log this We had just seen some friends of ours, and were walking to a quieter spot (Were there really any? Well, we tried ) when Jim happened to see an Altoids tin with some geocoins in it. Being a geocoin-aholic, he just had to stop and look at them. The woman holding the coins explained the deal. Really neat that this made it to GW6, and that we just happened to see it [^] This is our second traveling cache; the first was Stop and Go Go Go! Thank you very much! 

Time to bury a few more travelers cut down in their prime...

One of our two Nacaya Silver personal gecoins crashed in Fullerton; it and a couple of other travelers all vanished from the same cache

Our silver Geolicious - Mountain Cache geocoin was almost certainly stolen from a cache. Either that, or it was "clumsied" into oblivion, and the goofball who lost it was too chicken to admit it.

Teal Teddy Bear vanished from a cache before it was even officially Found for the first time That's got to be a record for disappearance of a TB.

Our gold USA/Canada Celebration geocoin was in an old cache in a moderately-tough to get to spot, but the cache was muggled anyway, shortly after the coin was placed in it. Only the second cache for it, too

At least our gold South Eastern New Brunswick geocoin made it a few hundred miles before the cache it was in was muggled.

The Geocaching - Gone To The Dogs geocoin that we sent out was stolen from a cache in Simi Valley named, "Scooby-Doo, Where are You?" Now *that* is synchronicity for you!

Maybe these will show up again down the line. One never knows; a TBug that vanished over two years ago suddenly showed up about a month ago While the shades of our vanished travelers wait for their chance at reincarnation, they should be well-treated here  

Dropping off several TBs and geocoins which have lost their way A couple of them were in muggled caches, a few just vanished, and one geocoin was logged into an event by a friend of ours, but it was never logged out; how can a traveler not get logged out of an event?!?!? Some of them traveled well, one made it over 7,500 miles , and one never made it out of the first cache that we dropped it into All lost: cut down before their time. Farewell, farewell, farewell! 

After a day of caching in the Ontario and Montclair area, Webfoot and I headed to Puddingstone (that's what it was when I waterskiied here when I was a kid, and I see no reason to stop calling it that) to grab a Geovexillum in the RV campground. As we turned onto Via Verde, he said that there was a good cache not too far away, so he pulled over and let me go for it, as he had grabbed it some time back. Excellent camo! Several years ago, there used to be a cache, way up near Inyokern, where the 14 and 178 connect, in a very similar sort of placement, that might still be there if it had been cammoed this well Thanks! 

The time has come to bury five geocoins and one TB which have been waylaid on their journies...

Our Traveling Ancient Roma #316 was thieved from the very first cache it landed in. Our Anthus Decoder #2 also didn't make it out of its first cache, but this one was muggled a few days after we found it. Two of our geocoins - Beach Ball #2 and South Germany #2 - were both in the same cache, when it was raided by a geocoin thief; a couple of other geocoins also were stolen. Best not leave any geocoins in caches near Taft, CA. An old cache in the Antelope Valley of CA was also raided; our First Finders #2 was in it, as well as a lot of good swag, from the reports. The thing was destroyed and stuff scattered for quite a distance, probably by punk kids of some age or another. Finally, our Shamrock Mug TB traveled over 4,000 miles before it vanished from an event in New York State. Can't mourn too much over this one, at least

Thanks for keeping this nice graveyard open. 

We are gathered today to lay to rest the souls of three intrepid travelers who were cut down in their prime, and one which barely got started.

Summer Breeze was in a Travel Bug Hotel in Germany, when it and several other travelers were muggled. Alooooh-ha! vanished somewhere between Illinois and North Carolina; it was picked up from a cache, and the claimant said they were headed for home, then they and our Bug disappeared. Our American Caching #1 geocoin was dropped into a cache in Santa Barbara. The next cacher's log, just a few days later, said that the coin wasn't there. Don't you just love coin thieves? Finally, our London #490 geocoin vanished from a cache in the Carolinas. We met the owner of the cache when she came to California to visit with her daughter, a local cacher; Dear Dora was really upset that a coin vanished from her cache. These things happen

May the spirits of these travelers live on in our memories. Let us not give up hope for their reincarnation  

Dropping off two Bugs which had their journeys abruptly curtailed, although in dramatically different fashions. "Rabbit wants Vegetables" just wanted to visit places where veggies were grown or sold. The figurine was separated from the tag in a cache in Northern California. A visitor from Texas rescued the tag 2-3 years ago; we told him to keep it or recycle it, whichever. "It's a Lock!" was in a cache which was blown up by the Salt Lake City, Utah, Bomb Squad, on 23 March, 2005. So It Goes. 

Dearly beloved, we are gathered today to pay our last respects to four valiant Travel Bugs, whose journeys were cut short. High Flier, a helicopter toy, was in a cache that was muggled; it is hoped that it is being played with by some lucky child. The Thrill of Victory!, a keychain from the Salt Lake City Olympics, went missing in a cache at Lake Tahoe, not far from Squaw Valley; at least it got somewhere near to its goal (Turino, Italia) in spirit. World Traveler went missing in the wilds of Nebraska, fate unknown; our thanks to the cache owner for advising us of the loss. And What *is* a Tar Heel, anyway? was taken by some dope at GeoWoodstock III, and was never logged out nor (as far as we can tell) moved; how this could happen at an event like that is astounding, but there are still travelers logged into that event which have not been logged out, months later. We hope for peace for these poor travelers, brought down in their prime. 

Time to lay to rest three Travel Bugs which have been Missing In Action for a couple of years X-treme! wanted to visit skateboard parks, but only made it to a few before it vanished from an active cache in Oregon; at least it traveled nearly 1,000 miles before it bailed. Chips off the Old Block was working on hitting 5,000 miles when the cache that it was in (Bahia Honda Beauty, in the Florida Keys) vanished. Finally, The Thrill of Victory! was on its way to Salt Lake City, Utah, and then to Torino, Italy, when it vanished from a cache on the shores of Lake Tahoe, near Squaw Valley, California. All three places were sites of Winter Olympics. The Agony of Defeat occurred after a little over 1,000 miles of travel. Fortunately, most of our TBs are still out there, so losing a few isn't that hard to take. Still, one wonders why it is that Bugs just vanish from active caches. Some people just do *not* get it  

The graveyard where we've buried several other T-Bugs is getting rather full, so decided to fly these across the Pacific for burial in a smaller, quieter place.

"CHOMP!" was supposed to visit dentists; it got to one, then was "drilled" by a cacher who has since been banned

"26 miles today..." started on Santa Catalina Island, and was supposed to visit all of the caches there. But it wound up in a cache that vanished, and is presumed lost. So It Goes.