Dave and I headed over to Sequim last weekend... I am sure if you have read any of my blog or my twitter you will know I LOVE this place... for me going there is like stepping into another world.. one with no stress.. no worries.. no kids... it is so relaxing... as soon as we get on the ferry.. everything just melts away and it is almost like we are in another land in another time :) So off we went... we wanted to visit the loggers show... our favorite bed and breakfast and do some geocaching and hiking. We did all of that :) 
We spent two nights at the Red Caboose Getaway and since that is right next to where they hold the loggers show we were able to walk over and explore that.. both on Friday night and on Saturday for a bit. There were also a few caches hidden within walking distance so we checked those out.. found a beautiful little park while exploring... we will need to go back and visit it again too as there was one cache there that we were not able to find. 
We spent Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday geocaching... we explored Port Angeles and did some exploring of Morse Creak trestle on Saturday.. the Olympic Discovery Trail has a lot of caches on it.. and it is a beautiful trail... planning on getting in better shape and taking a bike ride along it. Saturday night is when we started our CSI caching in Sequim... out until about 9 pm with the flashlights in little parks and on the sides of the road.. when we ended up in a business park waiting for the cops to show up we decided it was time to head back to the cabooseSunday, after a wonderful breakfast, we checked out of the caboose, having had a nice visit with the owners. We then decided we were not ready to leave town. We did some caches right in town... pretty hard to be stealth like when the cache is right in the middle of an intersection...figured out... when you try to be all tricky and sly.. everyone looks....to see what you are doing.. but if you act like you lost something and your looking for it.. no one looks.. no one wants to be asked to help... lol.. so we gave up on the stealth idea. We still were not ready to leave town so we headed out to the Railroad Bridge park.. which is also connected to the Olympic Discovery Trail.... and had a wonderful time doing some hiking out there and found some amazing caches.. even met some other cachers. 
By the time we were done there we knew it was time we needed to start home.. so off we head towards Kingston... well... normally this is an hour drive.. or so the GPS said... but.. the dang thing also kept popping up with caches right on the side of the road... so we just had to stop and get a couple of them.. well.. one leads to another and pretty soon we were about 5 miles down some logging road climbing around on a massive stump pile.. looking for a cache about the size of a pencil easer... yes we did find it... woohooo The hour long trip to the ferry took us like 3 hours or so.. but we did rack up the caches :) Loved this Dead End one. 
We did get on the 9:30 ferry heading home.. made it home by like 11... would have been a bit sooner but we detoured about 30 minutes for food after getting off the ferry.... now that we are home I had thought we would get back on a normal schedule.. had thought the last two nights of CSI geocaching had been an adventure while on vacation... lol... nope... I was wrong... so far there has not been a night this week we have not been out in the dark with out flash lights.. and this.. I am blaming (giving credit?) to a cacher named Rey del Roble, a local.. who I have not met.. but who I already think is amazing.... he has awesome hides.. hard ones... that really make you think... and make you look at things differently... which is the part of caching we enjoy... It is not so much what we find... but the looking.. and the learning of the area and the time spent together... using the brain.. and teaching the eyes to see new things.. to look differently... it is a drug of choice for us right now... we are addicted... hook, line and sinker... In the last week the list of amazing things we have seen all because of geocaching is really long..and the reading we have done about the places we have visited has been great.. all of it making us want to go back and explore more.
By the time we were done there we knew it was time we needed to start home.. so off we head towards Kingston... well... normally this is an hour drive.. or so the GPS said... but.. the dang thing also kept popping up with caches right on the side of the road... so we just had to stop and get a couple of them.. well.. one leads to another and pretty soon we were about 5 miles down some logging road climbing around on a massive stump pile.. looking for a cache about the size of a pencil easer... yes we did find it... woohooo The hour long trip to the ferry took us like 3 hours or so.. but we did rack up the caches :) Loved this Dead End one. 
We did get on the 9:30 ferry heading home.. made it home by like 11... would have been a bit sooner but we detoured about 30 minutes for food after getting off the ferry.... now that we are home I had thought we would get back on a normal schedule.. had thought the last two nights of CSI geocaching had been an adventure while on vacation... lol... nope... I was wrong... so far there has not been a night this week we have not been out in the dark with out flash lights.. and this.. I am blaming (giving credit?) to a cacher named Rey del Roble, a local.. who I have not met.. but who I already think is amazing.... he has awesome hides.. hard ones... that really make you think... and make you look at things differently... which is the part of caching we enjoy... It is not so much what we find... but the looking.. and the learning of the area and the time spent together... using the brain.. and teaching the eyes to see new things.. to look differently... it is a drug of choice for us right now... we are addicted... hook, line and sinker... In the last week the list of amazing things we have seen all because of geocaching is really long..and the reading we have done about the places we have visited has been great.. all of it making us want to go back and explore more.Clicking on my Flickr link will take you to more photos of everything.
~Michelle
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