When Carl and I lived in Southern Utah a couple years ago, we got into this strange little activity called Geocaching with our good friends Artie and her hubby Lynn. What is geocaching, you ask. I always say it’s like a treasure hunt. You need a handheld GPS, a good pair of shoes, and if you are me, a camera! For a little more info, go here.
Like I said, we used to do this strange activity a couple times a week at minimum..but then we moved to WA state and we tried it there, but it was just too wet and rainy..Fast forward to now, we are living in the Southern CA desert, not a lick of rain in sight, and yesterday Carl and I decided to explore the area just behind us in the foothills a couple miles away..there is a dirt road that leads from our housing development and goes all the way up the hill to Yucca Valley. Pretty much need a 4 wheel drive, and we have the jeep, so I think a trip up that road is going to happen pretty soon while it’s still cool. This is a MAP of the route. We found an abandoned ‘camp’ that was owned by the Metropolitan Water District in the1930’s.. it’s cement buildings dilapidated, graffittied and all shot up, plus zillions of spent bullet casings. Now we did not hear any shooting going on while we were there, but lots of evidence. We will go back, further up the hill there won’t be any shooting going on..just treasure hunting. We did see the MWD siphons and there was a huge structure and we could hear the water rushing somewhere below..water from the Colorado River rushing to the Los Angeles area. It was actually really interesting!
Anyway, we only found a couple of ‘caches’ but we got our feet ‘wet’ again with our treasure hunting.. we took the car so we did not go very far..next time the jeep. And I wish Artie and Lynn would come and go with us, that woman makes the BEST egg salad sandwiches..that and we just miss them tons..
And of course I took pictures. I ALWAYS take pictures! Enjoy!
Almost home…
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