It was a tad chilly this weekend but otherwise perfect for geocaching. Friday,
as is my custom, I spent a pleasant evening at the old homestead in
Martinsville, where I had some Carolina Reaper wings from
Coach's Neighborhood Grill, which were passable; not as hot as all that, but fairly tasty. I spent some
time digging through the old vaults trying to find a copy of
Japanese Giants #1, which took some work, but mission finally acomplished. Thus, for the
evening's entertainment, I made popcorn and watched
Destroy All Monsters, since it was the
feature movie covered in that issue of JG.
Saturday morning, after some grocery shopping, I headed out on the back roads,
bound for the northern reaches of Danville. There was a cache at the site of a
music festival from a couple of months ago — “Mountaintop Experience” (GC9G0TX) — which took me through some of the most brilliant fall foliage I’ve seen
this season. The cache itself proved fun enough (though it wasn’t really on a
mountaintop), and I went after another one nearby in Danville proper, which
put me close to
Tokyo Grill. I always enjoy their sushi, and I hadn’t visited since before the
beginning of the pandemic, so I stopped there for lunch. I was not at all
disappointed.
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Odd folk hanging out at the library in Chapel Hill |
This morning — after a not very restful night, due to freaking old man
physical issues — I joined forces with the
No-Dead-Weight Irregulars (Rob and Scott) and hauled us
over to Chapel Hill for Sunday geocaching. Our primary targets
were a trio of Adventure Lab caches: “Explore More at Pritchard Park,”
“Carolina Walking Tour,” and “Chapel Hill Art Walk”; the first
took us around the nice nature trails at the library, while the latter two
offered scenic tours of the UNC campus. Again, the fall colors here were
pretty much at their peak, so it was really quite a lovely time of it. After
the lab caches, we picked up a nice little hide called “Locked Up” (GC8G3G6) at the nearby arboretum.
We finished our caching day with a somewhat late lunch at
Top of the Hill Restaurant & Brewery, which is something of an old Chapel Hill institution. It’s been ages since
I’ve been there, mainly because the place is typically so crowded it’s the
very devil to get inside. Today, though, the crowd wasn’t bad, and the wait
wasn’t long. The food and brew hit the spot after four-plus miles of hoofing
it today.
Back in Greensboro again, and tomorrow begins another standard work week.
Thanksgiving is coming up, though, and I must say I’m looking forward to it.
Peace out.
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| Il Triello: Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo |
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| Diefenbaker toots his own horn on the Chapel Hill art walk. |