Spelunking

So yesterday my Dad mentioned there was a geocache right next to a mine he never knew existed. So we headed up the top of Bolinas ridge, where the road forks. Strangely enough, we ran into Brian, my Dad’s friend, and he joined our party. Once parking, we covered the hillside pretty well until I nearly fell right into the open mine.

We hung out there for awhile, which was fun. The cave is about 6’3“ at it’s highest point!

It was 10-20 degrees cooler in this old mine. We found the geocache, and I think I’ll visit again today to leave a surprise for future visitors!

Oh Yeah I Gots Teh iPhone!11!!!!!1!

Because it is what Jesus would have done->

iJesus

Tahoe 6/30

I went to Tahoe the other weekend with Jamie, Brendan, Matt and Jamie’s friend, Kim. We had a lot of fun, staying at Jamie’s Grandparent’s condo. After exploring some beaches, we went hiking up Eagle Rock, an awesome mountain thing that over looked the lake. I couldn’t help myself and quickly got information for a geocache. We then hiked down to emerald bay and were attacked by geese! I hate geese. Check out the slideshow!

The next day we went rafting down the Truckee river. it was pretty mellow the whole way down, making for a nice time to hang out. I got pretty burned, but I’ll live.

Father's Day Hike! 6/17

Oh man! I have been soooooo busy with work and traveling that I have barely had any time to relax or update blogness! But Here we go! Happy Father’s Day to Dads! We went on a hike up above Mt. Tam!

The hike started with trouble as we locked the keys in the car, it was hot out and the parents were a little under the weather so I won’t blame them, lol. We hiked down the hill to find a few Geocaches. One was by a bridge and another across a fallen tree bridge. Both my mom and dad got pretty excited about the whole Geocache thing, which was pretty cool. The first was located near an old corsair engine!

This inspired us to search for the rest of the wreckage, which was rumored to still be lying around. So, we scaled hills in the blistering heat, brushed against spiky scrubs and tumbled down valleys until we eventually found this neat little meditation spot. It was this old windblown tree surrounded by a rock wall and covered in all sorts of weird little trinkets.(Lets see if I can get this video thing to work...)


Success!

Anyway, we pressed on until we found our final Geocache... No wreckage tho... I wanted to bushwack to get home, but that made my mom very unhappy as she got a little beat up. They are getting old, but not old to the point that I can drive them through rough terrain for several hours! I hope to be as active when I am 50. After a lot of arguing we eventually got back to the car! Twas a great hike! Happy Pappys Day!

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Jedi Caching 6/4

OK, My bad. I am 9 days late on this blog. Working 5 days a week is just so damn difficult sometimes! I am so tired when I get home, its dinner, TV, bed, then up again at 6 AM. I am even so low on time I’m not playing wow. Holy cow! And so, I am very sorry for my tardiness. So you, whoever you are, validate my entries and feel free to comment. woo. NOW onto the caches!

Sean and I decided we were going to go on a Jedi Geocache mission, and try to get find as many caches as we could with the few hours of daylight we had left. So I threw a bunch on the GPS and we charged fourth! We were lead up above St. Ritas where a very cleverly hidden cache was placed at the trailhead. Then it was on to D-Hill above Drake where we found a cache where we met our newest friend, Rinocotron! He is, as I type, on his way to Australia with Kristin. Exciting!

On the way down the hill, we ran into Sally, an old friend from Drake. She brought us over to Tracy’s house, where we talked caching with her parents. The three of us then ran over to Memorial Park and snagged a multi-cache! While we were heading back, we ran into Robin and her boyfriend, Daniel. We threw them in the car and kept going, picking up 2 more caches along the miracle mile.

We eventually wound up in Ross hunting around the police yard for a cache when we decided to give up, realizing it was pretty sketchy to be snooping around the police yard at midnight. Oops!

Anyway, check out the map, lets see if I can get another entry out tonight.

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Mac Journal

Instead of actually posting on what I have spent my evening preparing, I’m going to post on my new blog software. I now use Mac Journal! It is basically a word processor designed specifically for journaling. It is pretty intuitive, but lacks the standard MS Word controls that one would expect to have in a text editor. It has a really neat calendar function and the ability to have multiple journals. You can also drag and drop attachments such as pictures, video and other things.

Perhaps the coolest part of this app is that it can export and upload to a blog. The upload doesn’t work too well if you are putting pictures in and not uploading to an ftp server. Formatting also gets messed up a bit, but the ability to author a blog locally and not through a lame HTML UI is really nice. Mac Journal will even download from the blog to update its back up and local registry. So you can author the entry locally, upload, fix pictures/formatting online, and Mac Journal will download the changes. Sounds like a lot of work, but it is loads easier than other ways I have tried.

Sooooo MacJournal plus my Google Earth and Excel code generator, blogging is super easy! Hooray for Macjournal!

FIRST CACHE

Just a little link to our first cache ever published!!! http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=3bd862a5-705c-4804-aa6e-93f3ee943a8a GO! Two more posts are coming up tonight! BE READY!