Sunday, March 23, 2014

GeoArt Trip #4 3/23

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Day 4.  3/23  sunday
Early breakfast.  Byes to Sunny. Kathy, Bob & I checked out of the hotel.
Planning trip to Oatman AZ  before returning to Meteor Crater.
Was able to do some geocaching along the way.
Nice visit in Oatman. Very busy.
Returned to MC around 5:30pm

Found about 12 caches today

********Fun 4 day trip ********

finding cache

Heading to Oatman



yes donkeys in the town






geocache--  had go in store to sign the log sheet

views off the road






Historical place call Cool Springs

yes found the cache


Inside store


Saturday, March 22, 2014

GeoArt Trip #3 3/22

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Day 3 Geocaching trip in Laughlin.
Breakfast about 8:30am. Planning the day and discussing yesterday's adventure.
Drove to Bullhead city.
  Stop at WalMart.  Then to the area for the Hot Shot 19 geocaches.  This design consisted of
68 caches.  This walk was a 7 mi hike.  Ran into other geocachers.  A stop at Windy's for a late
lunch.  Returned to hotel around 4pm.  A nice walk along the River walk along the hotels/casinos.
Yes a few more geocaches.  We stopped at Pioneer casino to play the slot machine. Sunny was the winner. 
Found about 75 caches  today.
                                                        Granite Mountain Hot Shots
                                                      in memory of the 19 firemen who lost their lives



Location is near Bullhead city off of Rodeo Dr road


all the caches look like this...
______________   Back at the Hotel, walking the River walk ----------


geocache in the rock

view of the river

Kathy went into the water to get the  cache hidden under the stairs

Carp fish

Friday, March 21, 2014

GeoArt Trip #2 3/21

* Day 2   3/21
Early breakfast at 7am.  Then a 1 1/2 hr drive to the geocaching location from Laughlin.
This geocart is the RT 66 icon which has 200 caches to make the design.  We were assigned a
section to do the searching on our  own finds.  Over all we walked 12mi from 10am to 3:30p.
Weather was great.  Not to hot.  We did few more caches getting back onto hwy40 before returning
to hotel. Buffet dinner and early to bed. 

Found 205 geocaches today

Kathy- start point. 

view of dessert

First cache-- later Kathy & I separated


turtle shell

Ammo box -geocache

yes real turtle

The team.  Signing the logs as AZ4

Riverside hotel is on the right side

Thursday, March 20, 2014

GeoArt trip #1 3/20

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Four day trip to Laughlin NV.  This was are home base to do some Geocaching.
Me, Kathy (Derek was sick couldn't come) Kathy's dad Bob and Uncle Sunny.
We were doing the GeoArt RT 66 and Hot Shot 19 plus misc finds.  Over all we found over
300 geocaches. Lots of fun. Weather was great.
3/20  Left Meteor Crater to Laughlin.
3/21 fri  GeoArt RT 66 90 miles from Laughlin
3/22 sat GeoArt Hot Shot 19 in Bullhead
3/23 sun Return trip going to Oatman

Divided trip blog into 4 parts.

Found about 20 caches today

1st stop for cache,   Kathy & Bob


Coming into Laughlin- hotels along the river



hidden geocache

Finding another geocache
-----  Checked into Hotel and picked up Sunny.  Geocaching in Bullhead city ---



Tiny nano geocache I found.  Kathy pulling  it out.  Hard one

Sunny,Kathy,Bob  

geocache TB at geocache--scary

Me, geocache near by.  Old airstrip


Casino across the river

River walk

Find the cache

Hotel at night

My room at the Riverside Hotel--- my room was Free for 3 nights