Geo Chaching

In case you haven't heard of it, Geo caching is like a treasure hunt. You can look up the locations on their website. People hide boxes with little trinkets all over the world. You then use a GPS unit and enter the latitude an longitude coordinates from the website. My sister sent the boys a special Geo Coin, that can be tracked by computer. So we left the coin in a box in CV with a note, hoping that it will make its way back to Anchorage. Great way to explore!!! This is the Summer Solstice coin that Cathy sent the boys. We left it in a cache pretty close to our house.

The flip side... Someone had left a travel bug in the CV cache, so we took that, and put it in a cache in Sedona. The travel bugs can also be tracked on the website.

After parking the car on the side of the road, we hiked to the cache, with help from Louetta, our trusty GPS unit.

Found it!!! Just some junky little items that people leave in the boxes. We found a Chicago Wolves button, that we will move to our next cache! If you're interested in doing some geo caching, check out their website.. www.geocaching.com

Unexpected Visitors

Yeah, yeah, yeah, another picture at Cathedral Rock, but It's one of my favorite places in Sedona, and makes such a nice background for pics with friends! I ran into Karyn and Carl this weekend, while doing an art fair in Sedona. They had no idea we had moved here, it was a total chance encounter. I worked with Karyn years ago at Mindscape Gallery, in Evanston, and hadn't seen them in at least ten years. The whole day worked out well. They were going to Cathedral Rock anyway, and I was taking the boys geocaching(next post) right near by, so we were able to get a nice hike in and catch up a little on life's events. So, after this picture, we hiked over the creek and through the woods, to the 'back side of the rock, and climbed almost all the way up.

LOVE this prickly pear pad!

View from the other side.....

This is the picture Carl was taking.

This is the top of the spires in the middle of the first picture. We didn't go all the way up this time, as we were pressed for time. October is the perfect month for hiking, so I'll be going all the way to the top real soon!!