I had my solo performance class today and this new story I am writing is just inching along. It’s a bit of a slow burn, if you will. I have spurts of ideas, but don’t really have a format yet. At least it’s fun to write. Sometimes I wonder if I love writing more than I love performing.
After class I headed back up to the Oakland hills to finish out the geocache puzzle series I had been working on before I left for SLO last week. I got the coordinates to the final location, but when I got there, I was struggling to make the find. And the park I was in- Reindhardt Redwood Regional Park was just littered with people, which made it hard to be sneaky. I kept poking around these trees looking for the cache and was about to give up when a guy on the trail asked me what I was doing. I said “scavenger hunt” and he said, “scavenger hunt or geocache?” WHAT? Someone else in real life knows about geocaching?
“Geocache,” I tell him.
“David’s Geocache?” He asks.
“YES!”
Turns out, he another cacher who goes by the name of “Turtle.X.” He has over 4600 finds. I have over 400 finds, just to give some perspective. So anyway, he helped me find the cache.
FOUND IT!
I wish they were all this size. Small caches make me cranky.
Turtle.X and I chatted and walked back to our cars and he gave me some tips. I always wondered how long it would take until I finally met another cacher. I have been doing this a little over a year now.
I forgot to take a bunch of pictures today. Oh well.
Saturday, July 16, 2022:
Theresa Donahoe 