Christmas Day Geocaching
Teri and I hope everyone had a great Christmas Day. We shared a meal in Wilcox at a resturant. When I looked up Teri was hugging the waitress. Small world sometimes. They knew each other from years gone by.
Look at this house in Bowie.
We started rolling around 830 am. Took off for a path through the desert that ran 43 miles down to Bowie, on I-10.
To our surprise, over 30 miles of it was pavement. That allowed us to get right along.
We stopped at the Hot Springs but they were all dry. You can see what is growning in this one.
A shot of the ground cover.
A shot of the mountains that were our destination today. You can see for miles and miles out here. those are 40-50 miles south of us.
As we rolled into Bowie we found lots of new orchards. Looks like pecan trees. They grow a lot of them here. Could have been pistachio trees, not sure.
Our first cache of the day.
Our second. We are at about 3500 feet here.
This was a really good cache in Wilcox. It took us a while to find it even though I had picked it up and did not realize what I had in my hand.
Look at that rock.
Now, look at the bottom. I am telling you, folks come up with some great ideas.
Another one in Wilcox. Lots of historic stuff in Wilcox.
The train is a resturant.
South of Wilcox on our way to the Chiricahuh Mtns. An old graveyard.
Look at this. these mountains were something.
I guess the wind rounds these things off like this.
On top looking toward Mexico.
This was an awesome sight. The camera can not capture the beauty we saw.
Coming back down. Lots of trees up here. Take water for trees to grow. At this altitude they get watered pretty regular. Lots of Decembers there is snow here.
Back into the desert and stopping for the Border Patrol. When they hear me talk they just smile and wave me on through.
We found this cache at a crane refuge. Neat area. They had high powered binoculars so you could look all over the desert. 
Cochise, Az.
Yep, a cache here.
This one was behind the post office in Cochise.
Our last one of the day. It was about a mile up a dirt road, just off of 191.What a Christmas. We had such a good time. Stopped and had our meal at a resturant. Saw lots of places we have not seen before. Got close to Douglas, Az. That is a border town. Rolled on back and finished 310 miles just as it got dark. The tracker worked great. If you get a chance take a look at if for Christmas day. We skyped our grandkids back in Dexter. They were so excited to see us and to talk about all of their new toys. Teri skyped her mom and got the lowdown on what the family in Washington did for the day.
Life is good,
Dan
posted by Dan & Teri Gregg @ 7:10 PM
2 Comments:
Great post Dan, I knew you'd like that area. Did you check out the campgrounds at Chiricahua? It would be a nice place to spend a couple of nights in the GMC. My son and his wife want to get into Geocaching, I'll send him a link to your blog.
Dan, great pictures. Enjoy that warm weather.
Cold here. Light snow over the past week end. We had a sort of white Christmas. Snow was wet and heavy.
Drove by homestead yesterday, but did not get out. From street, everything looks good.
Rick.
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