View From The Top

While needing to kill time for a good hour in the Lemon Grove area, we decided to go out and just drive around to explore the area and a bit further. Drove through Lemon Grove, through Spring Valley, and eventually ended up at Mt. Helix. My husband knew of the cross and the auditorium at the peak of Mt. Helix so we started on our drive up the mountain trying to find it. We made it there for the view and I pulled out my phone to see if there were any nearby caches. And yes, there were!

My husband made the find for this one. There were muggles around but they had no idea what we were doing, nor did they see us find the cache or replace it. They were just there enjoying themselves the the view of beautiful San Diego.

It was both my husband and my first time atop Mt. Helix and it was gorgeous looking out at San Diego from there. We recognized a few landmarks and sat in the auditorium for a bit to enjoy the scenery. Beautiful.

We left a coupon to the SD Aerospace Museum in this one. :D

MotoGP Cache & Collectible Pin!!!

N 36 35.140, W 121 44.912

I've been riding motorcycle's a long time and diligently follow motorcycling's premiere class of racing known as MotoGP. In this sport, brazen athletes (often with much character) ride prototype motorcycles and battle against each other to the finish line on tracks located around the world. Thanks to my wife, we're celebrating my birthday this year by attending the 2010 Laguna Seca MotoGP race and hiding a cache near the racetrack.

The Laguna Seca Recreation area is accessible year round not only to watch MotoGP but also for camping, hiking, biking, and to enjoy the great outdoors. This cache is a short hike from the track's most famous feature, "The Corkscrew" which is essentially a 5 1/2 story drop between turns 8 & 8A. Located inside is a first-to-find complimentary collectible geocaching pin.

The Laguna Seca MotoGP pin features two riders battling for position while coming down the corkscrew and is inspired by the now legendary 2008 clash between world champions Valentino Rossi & Casey Stoner and highlights the Doctor's famous move which ultimately broke the win streak of the talented #1. Those interested can relive the battle by clicking here. Additional pins to commemorate your find (if you aren't the first finder) can be had by contacting us with the "Secret Code" located on the inside front cover of the logbook.

Instructions for collectible pin:
A small fee of $0.99 per collectible pin will be charged to cover the cost of production.

1. Click the PayPal button below
2. During checkout, click "Add special instructions to merchant" and type in the secret code obtained from inside front cover of the logbook. Click the save button.
3. Finish your checkout and save a copy of your receipt
4. Your collectible pin will arrive shortly.

Laguna Second

MotoGP!!!!

Sweet! As we were enjoying our weekend at MotoGP, Laguna Seca, watching Rossi, Pedrosa, Dovi, and the other riders racing through the corkscrew, we decided during a break to go for a hunt! This one was a little tough to find but I liked it! The view from here was awesome and this area is where we ended up going to the next day to watch the final practice laps on race day. We saw muggles on the trails as we were getting to here and made us think more about actually coming out to Laguna Seca for camping and doing some good hikes sometime. We definitely had a great weekend and had an absolute blast watching Rossi race through the track. The Yamaha riders' interview we went to after this cache was great and though we didn't catch any of the t-shirts they were throwing, I still had a fun time yelling to Yorge to pass one our way.

Fun times with my husband :D

James Dean's Last Ride

Found this cache one the way up to MotoGP, Laguna Seca.

I didn't know anything about this it was really cool to learn the history of it from the cache description and more from my husband. Looks like this is pretty darn close to where the crash was and thinking about that is pretty sad and pretty crazy too.

Spotting this cache was easy and was also a nice stop and stretch from our long journey up to Monterey. The place smelled like pee though and was trashed too. Someone needs to bring out some gloves and a bag for CITO... maybe when we come around the area next time...

Rohr Park Foul Ball

With San Diego's weather looking nice and sunny again, we wanted to take the pups out for a walk in the park. We walked him around a bit before we took him for this cache which we found fairly quickly considering the muggles around. On the way to look for this, Ace remembered going to the community pool which which is no longer there and we also saw some kids ice-blocking down the hill. The pups was in the right area looking for this cache but was too distracted by the rabbits hopping around. I wonder if he actually likes geocaching or if it's that he likes coming out with us. :)

Big Blue View

Went snorkeling at the Cove with Elisa's family and decided to pick up this cache while the others were soaking up the sun and enjoying the water. Though I'd been to La Jolla Cove many times over the years I'd never walked the length of this trail until now. This is truly much of the fun of geocaching, seeing places you'd never even thought to go to.

There were several people on the trail on this beautiful summer day in San Diego so we had to be very discreet fishing out the cache. Inside we picked up the Travel Bug: Oh, The Places We'll Go which was started by a group of children in N. Carolina wanting to learn about geography -well here you go kids, pics of sunny San Diego looking at the gorgeous views from atop the La Jolla Cove. We'll be sure to keep your TB moving along.

G4T50 - EIGHTH Loop

We went for this cache after taking the pups to the dog park in Balboa. With all the times we've taken him there, we would have never guessed that just a walk away is this little film canister waiting for someone to log their visit. This one had us walking back and forth across the street but it was where I thought it might have been... it just took a while to find, especially with the many muggles walking, jogging, and biking pass. BebeDog had a lot of fun looking for this one... even stuck his head down a gopher hole to try and make this find (or maybe it was the gopher he was after) :P