Caching Down South Part 2
In January I wrote a a little item about our New Years trip that included a cruise to the carribbean and a week caching along the gulf coast from houston to Alabama. If you missed it, here is the link.
- https://www.cacheupnb.com/caching-trip-down-south/
Here is a bit more about the trip.
On the island of Roatan (Honduras) the family (8 of us) hired a van to drive us around. Apparently most people go to tourist attractions and private beaches on the eastern end but we wanted caches so we headed to the western end. Our driver had driven other cachers in the past so was able to help us a bit. GZ for the first cache was across the street from a roadside market. But the cache is actually located in one of the market stalls. The lady at the stall called us over and showed us the cache. Apparently she takes it home with her so if she is not there, you wont get a find. The next cache was located behind the bar at a beach restaurant and the staff had to search through cupboards to find the cache.
On Roatan , we also went to a virtual which Tiger Tracker visited 2 weeks later. Kind of an easy virtual. You have your picture taken in front of a sign for a butterfly garden. To claim the virtual, you have to tell what is situated at that location.
Our daughter-in-law Tammy is in the food business and wanted to visit a supermaket hoping to see some local foods. It was mostly american food and included such things as El Paso products.
During our drive along the Gulf Coast, we went to an evening event near New Orleans and met some wonderful cajun cachers, including Bamboozle who I had communicated with a few times online as a result of our posts on the GC.com forum. It was interesting to hear first hand accounts of Katrina from cachers with familiar acadian names.
Here is an interesting non-caching story that I would like to get opinions about.
It was cold time on the gulf coast. One moring it was about 28F outside our motel. I went out side and saw a young woman outside in the parking lot in her dressing gown. I found it kind of strange. I met her later in the hallway and she said she had been outside smoking. We started chatting about how cold it was. I said i was from Canada and she said she was from southern Texas and only seen snow once or twice when she was a kid and really loved snow. We chatted quite a while and she repeated a few times how she really loved snow. Finally I said: “Well if you want to see snow you should come to Canada”. She raised up her hand and showed me a gigantic diamond ring on her finger and she said: “I cant, I have a dick in my room”. In my mind she was telling me that her new husband was not the kind of guy who would want to go to Canada. But after telling the story to MA, I came to believe that the young lady thought I wanted to bring her to Canada, and she couldnt come because she was married. But I am not certain.
At our hotel in Houston, we were having breakfast when MA noticed that a lady at the next table had a gps on the table. I went over and mentioned her Oregon. She immediately realized that we were cachers. They were two couples from Manitoba and we chatted a while. The 3 other people had about 100 finds each. She had over 4000 but rather than tell us how many she had, she chose to surprise us. So as we were chatting, she suddenly asked us how many finds we had, thinking she would surprise us with her total. Unfortunately I had to tell her we had 18,500. But for a place like Manitoba, 4000 is very big number, as we mentioned to her.