CA Geocaching July 2024

We had a vacation in California, so naturally we did a lot of geocaching there.

The very first cache was at SFO airport! Public Art at San Francisco International requires the finder to take a picture with one of almost a dozen works of art scattered around the airport. If a traveler is passing through, there's at least one in every terminal behind security. There's also plenty outside of security for locals just visiting the airport to get a virtual. I posed by New Generation (2015) by Louisiana Bendolph in Terminal 3.

At the airport

Japanese Garden Cache is in San Mateo next to the Japanese Garden. The cache was a classic hide under a bench.

Not where the cache is

We also worked on the Architecture of San Mateo Adventure Lab and Bair Island Adventure Lab.

A bit of the architecture

A bit of the island

In San Francisco, we found two earthcaches, Greywacke & Alcatraz Terrane -- Telegraph Hill, and Alcatraz 'the rock' Formation Earthcache. They both are about the bedrock that make Alcatraz Island "The Rock" and Telegraph Hill a solid object. Who knew they had the same stone? Both caches had questions about the qualities of the rock and required pictures.

Telegraph Hill background

Picture facing away from the rock formation on Alcatraz

Thanks from Monique is a fairly typical find on the Stanford campus; Menlo Circus is by the Menlo Circus Club in Atherton.

Not very campusy but very geocachey

Not much of a circus

Down in Sunnyvale, we found Our Lady's Guard, a hide near a tall and impressive statue of Jesus's mom.

Great statue of Our Lady

The next pair of geocaches were a matched set of a sort: Market Lunch and Lunch at the Embassy were not far from our hotel and made a nice one-two punch of early morning caching. Market Lunch happened to be more 1400th find! Too bad I didn't take any pictures.

I went to the Lawrence Train Station in Sunnyvale and found Lawerence Train Station! The area also hosts Challenge of the Century (1x100) and Challenge of the Century (2x100), where the finder needs to have found 100 of one or two types of caches, respectively. I qualified for both so I signed both logs!

A train at the station!

We had a lot of other fun in California which will be coming soon to the blog!