Those of you that have read this blog know that I am crazy about geocaching. I started about 7 years ago and have been at it ever since. For several years my wife Sweetie, and SuperPizzaBoy geocached with me but they have backslided, fallen of the wagon, and left the one true path so I have been pressing on mostly by myself.
One of my goals over the years was to find 1000 caches. That is not that great a number actually. I have known geocachers that have found that many in a year. I ran into a couple geocachers in California that had over 14,000 each. For my type of geocaching, keeping it fun, I can average about three or four a week and I’m happy.
Recently I got up to 994 geocaches just prior to a family reunion in western Oklahoma this past weekend. I was going to have leave everybody on Sunday to drive to Wichita, KS for the Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association annual convention. That drive Sunday was my opportunity to get to a 1000 caches.
So off I went, first a trip down memory lane,
Believe it or not, I hope that you don’t hold it against me but I used to work for BP many moons ago. While working for them I bought the above office building for them. It is right on Highway 66 and just over the fence from I-40. I paid only $85K for it during a bad oilfield depression. The addition behind it? My old boss, one of the nicest guys I ever worked with, still gets mad about it, almost 20 years later. We were expanding and I asked him how much money I could spend. He said $100,000. I said OK. So when I bid the building out, I told the contractors that the bid was $100,000. The winner would be the one who gave me the best building for that amount. I thought that was pretty clever. My boss thought otherwise.
And oh, if you think that it looks a little bleak. You are right. The front double door was added by a subsequent owner. When I worked there, whenever somebody walked into the front door on a windy day all the acoustic ceiling panels would raise up. Hey what do you expect for $85,000.
Oops, I’m sorry, this is a geocaching post. Well, guess what there is a geocache close to the building. How did you guess? I think it was number 996.
I headed down route 66 to find a few more caches. I just love Route 66. I love interstates even more!!
In Yukon Oklahoma right outside Oklahoma City, I found this cute cache.
I might use a different shot of this for a Ruby Tuesday post. What do you think?
Later on, I had to get off Interstate 35 to go find a cache.
I just love dirt roads. Love’em love’em love’em.
This is where I found #1000, near a cemetery. Cemetery geocaches are great. I had to poke around a little bit before I found it. Why did it have to be on the other side of a barbed wire fence in some heavy brush? Why?
Wow, a 1000!!!! The crowd went crazy!!
You didn’t know geoaching was a spectator sport did you? Shows what you know?
Anyway, now what? I guess that I’ll go find some more!
