Green Valley & 1,000th Geocache

If you don't have any interest in geocaching, then this might not be an entry you will enjoy reading.  It's all about geocaching and our 1,000th find in the last 27 months.

We traveled down to Green Valley, AZ to do some geocaching.  It is basically a retirement community about 20 miles south of Tucson.  There are a number of golf courses, lots of walking trails, parks and many geocaches.

There were two really neat geocaches we found today.  One was up in a tree about 10 ft above the ground.  We have seen a couple like this one and realized there was a wire or string holding the cache in the tree.  This one was well disguised, but we found it fairly fast.  It also was a difficult find to get close enough to it since there were fences surrounding the area.

We reached a milestone today for finding geocaches with our 1,000th find which is shown with Gerry being the one who found it.  This cache was in Green Valley and just a short walk from a parking lot.  We have really enjoyed geocaching these past 27 months and look forward to finding the next 1,000.  We have been in some interesting places that we would never have chosen to go to, but looking for the caches has taken us there.  You have to try it to enjoy geocaching and the challenges it presents. 

One of the caches we found before this one was at a Presbyterian Church.  It was well hidden also, but once again we have seen one like this before and were successful in finding it.  The church was beautiful and had twin bell towers, a huge picture window with a view of the nearby mountains.  We were in time to hear the bells chime for the 5pm hour and they reminded us of the churches in our home towns.

You could see the mountains in the window with the Whipple Observatory in the distance. 

The Whipple observatory complex is located on Mount Hopkins, Arizona, USA (55 km south of Tucson) in the Santa Rita Mountains. The observatory is run by the University of Arizona and the Smithsonian Institution, and has a visitor center in nearby Amado, Arizona.

We had a late lunch at the Wisdom Cafe which is 2 miles south of Tubac on the frontage road.  We had a difficult time finding the place and since they close at 3pm, we really had to hustle to get there in time.  We had a nice lunch and the restaurant decor was very old and Mexican looking.  Neat place to have lunch if you are in the area, but tends to be a little expensive for a luncheon menu.  Gerry said the Margarita was pretty good, but not the best one she has had out here.

Travel Bug

Last but not least is a Travel Bug we found the other day while caching in Tucson.  Gerry wants to keep it, but we have to let it go and place it in another cache that holds Travel Bugs.  What do you think, does this one explain the weather out here to the T?  This one needs a little TLC and repair to put it back into good shape.  Someone put a lot of thought into this little dude.  Once we repair the TB we will find a good place to leave it.




And to think, we did all of the above with only driving about 165 miles on a sunny and warm day here in southwest Arizona.  Life it good.

See, I told you to not read this if you weren't interested in geocaching.

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