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| Nice view of the small lake at Fearrington Village, near Chapel Hill, NC |
It was a cold weekend for geocaching, though — thankfully — a tad less bitter
than last weekend. On Saturday, I headed after the second of friend
Rhodorooter’s (a.k.a. Dave’s) fairly extensive multi caches in
Mayodan, NC, just down the highway a few miles. This one —
tbbiker 10K Tribute Multi Cache
(GC9KVF9) — pays tribute to friend tbbiker (a.k.a. Todd) and takes the
hunter to five locations around town, several at local cemeteries, which I
always find enjoyable. The calculations necessary to acquire the coordinates
to each stage are kind of a pain in the ass, especially when you’re shivering,
but that’s fairly typical of this rightly evil cache owner. In the end, I
solved the puzzles, made the find, and earned a smiley. That’s what it’s all
about anyway.
This morning, Three Old Farts — Old Diefenbaker (a.k.a.
Scott), Old Rob (a.k.a. Old Rob), and
Old Rodan (old me) — set out for Fearrington Village by
way of Chapel Hill. Our primary target was an Adventure Lab cache
called
Gardens & Green Spaces of Fearrington Village, which took us to five different locations around Fearrington. A lovely
little area this is, with some attractive residential areas, numerous shops,
and a handful of dining establishments. Our gang had visited Fearrington a
few years ago to snag the caches there at the time, so it was nice to have
some newer ones to go after. We got in considerable walking, which was good
thing, since we ended up having big honking burgers for lunch at a pub
called
Town Hall, a short distance up the road from the village. Big honking
good burgers, I might add.
Coming up, I’ll be looking at my last full week of work at The Mailbox, which I expect to be bittersweet. Beyond that, a lot of unknowns, but the
one thing I’m certain of is that I will not be bored.
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| A bit of ice atop the stream that flows through the village |
Big bugs
