Sunday, July 28, 2013

SL wkend 7/28-30

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Trip to Show Low  7/27-29
Sat 7/27
Andy and I left MC Rv park and headed to show low to visit the gang up there.  Arrived at TJ's condo early afternoon.  Later headed to Bill/chuck's place for dinner and evening of playing cards. Also planned our trip to do some horse back riding. At the end of the game Bill and I rec'd notification about a new geocache just down the street at the new Panda Express. So we all got in the car and drove over there.  Found the cache. We were first to find.  Also the cache owner was there waiting to see who would show up at 9pm.

Sun 7/28
Got very early start and headed to the Porter Mtn Riding stables for the 8:30am  ride.  Nice sunny morning. Checked in  with the owners and got ready for our 1 hour ride. Great ride. Nice views of the forest and along the Scott's reservoir.
  From here to a Swap Meet.  Then a late breakfast. Did a couple of geocaching. Back to condo for a nap.  :)
At 6:30p at Bill/chuck place, the Hall, met other people for card games.

Mon 7/29.
Off to do some geocaching.  Bill/chuck had a special lunch to attend. We all met at the Movies to
see "the Wolverine".

Tue 7/30
Andy and I headed back to MV rv park.


Dinner at Bill/chuck's
geocache at nite
Panda Express- pic taken the next day

Porter mtn stables
check in for our ride

 
 














Swap meet
Pintail  lake , geocaching


another geocache


 

Friday, July 26, 2013

Twin arrow casino dnnr 7/26

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Friday 7/26
Andy arrived from Yuma  late today here at MC rv park.
Headed to the casino for a early dinner before it starts to rain. Sky is really black. Great dinner, lots of food.  Played the slots for a little bit and then back to mc.  Will go to show low tomorrow.



Sunday, July 21, 2013

Geo breakfast SL 7/21

* sunday 7/21
A month ago Bill & I set up a geocaching breakfast  event for sun 7/21 9am at Sal & Theresa Rstr.
The attendance  was  great , About 20 people.  Great times exchanging stores. It lasted almost 2 hrs.

3 tables in a conf. room


After breakfast bill/chuck & I set out to do some geocaching





geocache, hard one- Its  a plug drilled into the branch, click to an large the view

Name of the area we were searching

mushroom on the tree

another geocache- hole drilled into branch to hold the bison tube/log

fake rock (key rock) in the center, is the new cache placed by Bill


my new geocache- off Buckprings rd

cute little park
Pinrod cemetery - goes back to 1870's
 
 

Bird house, no.  Its a geocache









Monday, July 15, 2013

Meteor Crater update 7/15

Meteor Crater Update   7/15/13
This gives you an idea how the new Admission area is coming along.  Suppose to be finish by the end of August.
 
 



Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Zip Line/Williams 7/10

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JUL 10 wed
After work me and my co-workers headed to Williams (north of Flagstaff) to do the Zip Line.  First stop was to get a geocache. As we parked there was two deer's watching us. The zip line  is a new feature in down town of Williams.  It was a blast.  Watch the video.  After the fun adventure we stopped at McDonald's for a quick hamburger B 4 returning to meteor crater.
Co-workers: Kathy/Derek, Kim & Jeff (seasonal worker)

Look, deer

Found the geocache - signing the log sheet

Kim & me getting ready for the zip line

Kathy / Derek

Jeff
 
Video
video shows Kim and me on the zip line
You go backwards first then forward
Voices: Kathy & Derek
 
 
 

Monday, July 1, 2013

show low 7/01

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Saturday   6/29
Headed to Slow Low early in the am from the Meteor Crater Rv park.  Arrived at TJ's condo around 11am. Bill/Chuck  came over. We drove to Pinedale to see one of the oldest Bridges in AZ.  Really cool.  During our search for the geocache a 1940 Pontaic came thru and stopped to talked to us. We were able to take neat pictures.  From there  drove to Herbe for lunch and more geocaching.
Back to the condo for a nap.  Later to Bill/Chuck for dinner and evening of cards. We found 8 caches.

Sunday 6/30
The Horse riding trip was cancel since Bill was not feeling good.  TJ and I did are early walk.  Two new geocaches published ... so off we go to find them.  A stop at 5 Sports  store for new hiking shoes for me.  Then off to see the movie "White House Down"- good one.. At 630pm to Bill/Chuck community hall to play cards, about 14 people.  Fun evening.

Monday 7/01
Early morning walk.  Breakfast at "Sal & Teresa's".  Stopped at the Verizon store, would like to get a new phone.  Car wash.  Back to condo to pack up.  Quick visit with Coni at his home. Then trip back to Meteor crater RV park.


bridge in Pinedale-Bill signing geocache, TJ looking on




1940 Pontiac

Lunch here- Heber


Bill- found geocache

me

cool cache - cut log

Lucy & Ricky- bill/chuck dogs

Bill signing geo log sheet.  My fingers holding  the nano geo conatiner. The log sheet goes in it.

goecache at base of statue


Dinner time- TJ, Me, Bill & Chuck