We were on the road again, back home to Texas this weekend. It was great to see everybody! It rained alot, didn't know if that would get in our geocaching plans. The rain let up a little, so my sister Tay and I went out to try to find a few. According to the Weather Underground, the radar showed the rain was over...wrong! Not only did we try unsuccessfully for three (that's right, three) geocaches, the skies opened up and we got soaked. We stopped after we started to hear lightning and called it a day, empty handed.We tried again a couple of days later. The sun was out this time and so were the mosquitoes! Big ones, like Volkswagons. That didn't stop us, we loaded up in Paw-Paws truck with the kids and took off on a geocaching expedition around The Woodlands.
Went up to this nature preserve on 1488. I had known it was there, but never been. We jumped out of the truck in search of the prize. It was a nice 3/4 mile round trip according to my GPSr. The trail sign said that the trail went back even further and led to a pond. Really nice place to do some fishin' and escape.The last geocache was a little difficult to get to. We couldn't figure out how to get close to it. We drove around it a few times, until we realized it was over on Montgomery College's land on the other side of the ditch. It was easy to get once we got there! I thought we were going to be eaten alive by the mosquitoes walking down the trail. Tons of them! Mosquito spray saved the day!
We collected a few Travel Bugs during the trip and dropped some off on the way back to Florida at a geocache on the side of the road just outside of Baytown, Texas. It was in another really old cemetery. It was nice just to get out the mess of traffic we were in right there.Back in Florida! There are a few new geocaches in the area, so we'll be out again soon with more stories and geocaching fun!
