Yesterday we spent a lot of time in the car travelling to my cousins wedding up in Hepworth. It's a little more then two hours each way, and we decided to pick up a cache close to the wedding location. There was an easy cache located at a nearby community centre. There was a little park with a few muggles playing, but the cahce was located about 100 metres away and they were none the wiser.
Today we decided for a little tour...and we travelled to Jamaica and the Dominican Republic. Well not to the actual places, but to the America's geocaches on the Caledon trail.
Needless to say, we did not arrive home until after midnight and we were a little slow to get ourselves out of bed this morning. After lunch we talked about going for a walk on the Caledon trail, and then decided to take our bikes. Now my bike has not been out of the garage all summer (it's just been to hot and many other excuses), but it seemed like a good idea. After filling up the tires with air, we set off to the Caledon trail, we choose the starting point off Mississauga road because we knew there was lots of parking there. We get the bikes out and head down the trail. We decided that we'd bike as far as my body could handle and then cache on the way back.
We stopped at Creditview Road for a water break. It felt good to get out and ride the bike. (Thank goodness once you learn you never forgot how.) Just as we were deciding if we were going to go further down the trail we hear thunder in the distance. We decided to start back and try to pick up some of the caches in this section. The first one we stopped for we didn't find. We looked, but didn't spend a lot of time as we needed to keep moving due to the weather. So off to the next one. This one was Jamaica and Mark was able to find this one quickly but was attacked by a few mosquito's. The next one was 500 metres down the trail so off we went. Mark again went for this one and it was a quick grab just off the trail, Grenada. By this time the thunder was getting louder and several people also on bikes were also heading back to the parking point. Check the iPhone and there is another one just 150 metres ahead, so we headed off to the Dominican Republic. This time I went into the bush, only a few metres off the road but on an uphill slope, but a quick easy find.
By this time the sky was really dark and we decided not to push our luck and to try to get back to the car before the rain started. We made it back to the starting point and got the bikes in the car, and that's when the first few droplets of rain hit the windshield!
Biking on the trail was beautiful and we are planning on heading back out later this week, as long as the weather will co-operate. These trails are awesome.
Elaine - maybe when you return from your trip we can go for a ride? That is, if you can stand to go as slow as I do!!
Well only 51 more weeks to go!
Hey have u been caching
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