Category — Colorado

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Kira and I flew out to Colorado to celebrate Holly’s birthday. We didn’t have much time before leaving to put together a present for her, so Kira picked up a tent from REI and I, well, royally slacked.  Just before leaving the house I felt perhaps I’d get a break while we were there and I could put down a couple of tracks and some lyrics to celebrate her 20th.  Sadly I learned, after talking with Kira, it seemed we wouldn’t get much of a break from any of the weekend excitement once we landed and recording was going to be futile.

However, we’re not considered the quitting type, usually. So, within the confines of an Boeing 737 300 series aircraft, in seat 13 D & E, and somewhere over Nevada at 30,000 feet, I set up shop. I expected this was the most privacy I would get throughout the next four days.

Ultimately, the song could use some work, BUT I think this could turn into something quite remarkable. I saw Apogee is making a XLR to iPad interface and I could see mile high recording incorporating the sounds of flight, passenger AC, and the unpredictability of *DING* resonating through the microphone, accompanied by the inability to truly master tracks and massive feedback potential. I like to think of it as the recording parkour.  It’s going to be HUGE! mark my words.

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Here we are with 9 finds under our belt and a fast growing following within the house hold.  Before I know it everyone’s gonna be hunting around with little computers in their hands and I’m gonna loose out.  It’s time I take the next step.  Hiding one of these little buggers.

It’s not hard, there are rules, kind of… really there are only a couple and they’re really straight forward.  But, alas I forgot to read them all carefully.  AND we placed our too close to another cache, though I do say our’s is a much better cache.  In fact, YOU be the judge.  Below are two spoiler photos.  You tell me which one is cooler.. I won’t tell you which one is mine.

Cache 1 Or       Cache 2

Okay.  Now that you’ve got that all figured out, here are the facts you need:

Here it is online @ Geocaching.com

(this cache will likely never be published because of it’s proximity to another cache, so consider it a Secret Cache!)

Or

Find it on your own with the coordinates:

N 38° 53.009 W 104° 50.034

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And Of Course, Here’s A Spoiler Photo

and now, we’ve gone. Gone from Colorado Springs and on our way to Tucson. From there to Orange County. With our final destination by the end of next week, Berkeley, California, where we’ll finally drop our bags for a stay of more than a few months.

Thanks to Colorado for the hospitality, the beautiful weather, the reasonably unique people, and of course the great family that will keep me coming back.

-John

Pueblo, Colorado, USA

We drove down to Pueblo for a short stay with Holly before we left town and decided instead of her trying to entertain us, we’d take her out and explore the campus and Pueblo.  This turned out to be a perfect venue for a short visit and a lunch break in the park with a mass of migrating birds was a plus too.

Caches Found:

GC1W34: CSU Tour #4 – Mosquito Falls

GC16GVD: CSU Tour #5 – Up Next

GC14BKF: Back to School

GC16GV6: CSU Tour #1 New Field

GC1M42D: Almost Bullseye

GC16GV8: CSU Tour #3 – Need a Ride?

GC14W0G: Arroyo

GC16PD7: Dead Wood

Geocaching!

After some exploration yesterday we really took hold of this new game/hobby.  So today we got serious, loaded up the GPS with new locations, and not only found eight more easy caches (because we’re still learning) but planted our very own here in town!  We put together a cool looking, twine wrapped, film-canister with some small sheets of paper in it, planted it deep in an urban park in Colorado Springs (just to not spoil it in writing, there are photos of it below), and registered it online at www.geocaching.com under GC22Y57, “Steps to Sinton.”

Kira inspecting a micro-geocache

And of course the GPS Route:

2010 12 12 Geocache kml

WARNING! PHOTOS CONTAIN SPOILERS TO LOCATIONS OF CACHES!!!