We left early this morning and stopped by McDonald’s for sausage biscuits to eat on the way south on Hwy. 395. We were going in search of a series of geocaches. After leaving the highway and heading east we were on dirt roads. Some of them were okay, others were rough. We traveled 12 miles up to a plateau with hundreds of Joshua trees. We had taken food and plenty of water because we knew it was going to be in a remote area.
We found the first two caches without too much trouble, but things only got worse from there. I had little or no cell phone service so I didn’t have a compass to point us in the right direction. Bill’s GPS and our Nuvi were both showing zero distance to all caches in the area. We have never had that problem before.
After trying to solve the issues and not succeeding, we decided to throw in the towel. We didn’t feel that the trip was wasted, though, because it was a beautiful and interesting area.
On the way back to the highway we passed a pumice mine. That was a new one for me. It was a large operation. Bill told me the pumice is used in making cinder blocks. I seem to learn something new every day!
Before going back into Lone Pine, we found two more geocaches not far off the highway.
After all that exercise we both needed naps. We were tuckered out and didn’t accomplish much for the rest of the day.
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