Lincoln City Geo Coin Hunt

My #2 son, Christopher, and I went to Lincoln City, Oregon on September 27 & 28, 2008 for The 2nd Annual Celebration of Honor and Coin Kick Off. It was a fun (for the most part) Geo Coin hunt.

We had problems with three of the 20 Virtuals. No. 3: The full sentence should have the name of a suspense movie in it not the name of an individual person or group. Luckily I had taken digital photos of the two back-to-back plaques. No. 4: was not the plaque dedicated to Mrs. (and Mr.) Robinson but a plaque 10-15 ft. away partially hidden by bushes. We had to drive back six miles round trip to get the correct answer. And No. 9 was not located at the Police Station (the coordinates) but at the Lincoln City Library.

After receiving our Geo Coins we went back to #20 for "the best burgers, fries/chips and shakes in town." We did several other geocaches, benchmarks and waymarks. Great weather!!

Pendleton Oregon Geo Coin Hunt

My #2 son, Christopher, and I traveled to Pendleton, Oregon for three days of geocaching, benchmarking and waymarking from September 16-18, 2008. We had a Jr. Suite at the Pendleton Red Lion which was a great location.

We found 26 geocaches and benchmarks during the trip. In Pendleton I waymarked a "Survey Gaging Station Shelter House," a Union Pacific Yellow Caboose, and a sculpture "Art Inspiration."

While it was interesting visiting a place where I lived briefly as a child, I was deeply disappointed in the Pendleton What a Kick! geocaches. Christopher and I did nine of the 12 Pendleton What a Kick! geocaches (three were temporarily unavailable/archived). Some of the caches I was not physically able to hunt for, no tie-in between Pendleton's history and the cache locations, way too difficult and time consuming for a Geo Coin hunt, and dozens of ants and wasps/bees but, thankfully, no rattlesnakes.

My favorite geocaches were not part of the Geo Coin Hunt: "A Sculpture Tour of Pendleton" (GCTWCA), "Helping Hands" (GCTP6X) and a Virtual. My absolute least favorite geocache was "Reith Overlook" (GC1A64D)--great view, clever hide but miserable long search in the scorching sun ending in a DNF.