blazerfan's geocaching adventures: May 2012

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Food Carts

It may sound strange for someone who is as picky of an eater as I am to like to try new things, but occasionally I do. I suppose things like Indian, Vietnamese and Korean aren't new anymore. I like them all. In Grants Pass there is one Korean Restaurant (its good but no one will go there with me) and one Vietnamese Restaurant (I wasn't impressed.)

Recently though there has been a Vietnamese food cart downtown called Sàigòn Xích lô. Its caused quite a controversy much like some of the food carts have in other cites. I have never gotten a chance to try the ones in downtown Portland, but there are a bunch with a wide variety of food types. I've hear Medford has a handful as well.

The main controversy with this cart is that he doesn't have a permanent place to park. They just park in an empty space on the street and move every two hours.Click Here for a news story about it. Personally I would like to see more food carts with a bigger variety of food. When I'm at work I don't like to go to a restaurant and sit by myself. I'd much rather pick something up to go and take it back to work or to home.

I've tried this cart a few times and had the first 3 items on the menu. All were pretty good. I wish they just had simple cheap Pho. That's what Grants Pass really needs is good cheap Pho... and Indian food.

Saturday, May 19, 2012

The caches

Here is the list of caches from the last 4 days. Had finds in Oregon Nevada and Idaho

Decision Junction
My daughter had to go pee 2
Bison in a Skewer
Basque Station
Blue Mtn Pass
Oregon Canyon Rd guard pole
Who or What is Cleto
Another "TEN MILE"
Good-bye or Hello
State Line by Design
IDEAL PLACE FOR A CACHE
McDermitt Restin' Place
Rome Launch Ramp
Black Hole of Arock
Cabela Springs
Ethan's Ethan Cache
T & C Bday series #4
High or Low? Oh No It's A Nano!
I,E,R TREE
Black Cache
Not Us
River Sucrets
riverside park
Cache at the Crypt
Potters' Rest
Feeling a bit Drewsey?
Fort Rock : The Plaques

While some of these were fun and a nice break on long stretches of highway I though far too many of them were nano caches.

Friday, May 18, 2012

A few more pictures

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Days 2, 3, 4 and 5

Didn't get around to updating my blog for the rest of vacation. Just got home today and have 31 caches to claim for it. I could have had a lot more but I didn't stop for several. Had a snake scare me away from one (watch out for snakes under those piles of rocks.)

So the trip was Grants Pass to Crane. Then Crane to Boise. Boise to Burns and finally Burns to Grants Pass. We took some side trips like driving 100 miles extra just to go to McDermitt. We also drove off the highway to visit Arock, Danner and Drewsey.

Some pictures from the first couple of days. More to come

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Day 1: Grants Pass, OR to Crane, OR

Decided to take a trip East this week. Today we traveled over to Crystal Crane Hot Springs in Crane, OR. Had breakfast at McDonalds in White City and was not too surprised to see Lazyboy. Having trouble uploading pictures but these were today's caches.

Wagontire - Population 2 (+1)
Obsidian Point
Whoa! Ya Missed it
Crystal Crane

Sunday, May 06, 2012

Bike Path Caching

I went out today with Kelly and Iseek to find some new geocaches on the bikepath between Central Point and Medford. Daveydude later joined us and we had a good time. I had 20 finds on the day which was 5 times more then I had found all year. It has been a long time since I went caching with everyone so I took some videos and pictures.