582 Miles Later

We have made it back in one piece, and to top it off, we found 64 caches for the weekend! After playing some ultimate frisbee on Friday evening we left for Spokane about 9:00 p.m.. We arrived in Spokane around 11:00 p.m. after passing into the Pacific Time Zone and we were sleeping within a few minutes after checking into the motel. Saturday we geocached from nearly sunrise to sunset and found 31 geocaches. Sunday we found a few more caches in Spokane before hitting the road and returning back to Missoula via Highway 2 & 200. We found 33 caches yesterday - our previous record for caches in one day was 22. We found 20 last Christmas with Andy and Amber while we were back in Nebraska over break. That brings us up to 834 caches found and 166 caches to find before Jan. 1, 2007. Doing a little math quickly, I see that that averages out to 1.8 caches per day, or 13 per week. That is still going to be tough to do without another big trip to a new place, but we are gonna keep trying - we are a little ahead of pace right now.
We added two more counties to our map this weekend as well. Those being Pend Oreille county in Washington and Bonner county in Idaho - shown in light blue. I would post some pictures of the trip, but there really wasn't much along the lines of photography on the trip - imagine that, I couldn't find anything to take pictures! Oh yeah, the GPS now has 40,000+ miles on it as well - that's most of the travelling we have done over the last 20 months - all by wheel & foot. Another 10,000 miles and we've been around the Earth twice!

My computer is giving me some trouble with the additional hard drives I added, so I will be working on that for the day and trying to get it back in top order. I also need to pull out my hunting gear - waterfowl season opened over the weekend and I am ready to get out there and enjoy the outdoors again. Until again

-=Nolan=-

Here's what the new counties map looks like: