Came Very Slow

05/11/2013 By Kabutroid
WOOH, first geocache in Florida! First time ever in Florida for that matter. Came down here with my wife and her family for some vacation time at Universal Studios, Disney, Kennedy Space Center, and a handful of other places and figured I just HAD to log me some cache in the state. There’s probably a fairly decent chance I won’t get the opportunity to head back down here anytime in the even remotely near future, so can’t let this pass by. The others seemed mildly less than open to stopping our trip out to Disney/etc for me to dig around for a geocache (me being the only geocacher amongst the group ToungeOut ).

Thus, in some of the spare downtime, I opted to head towards whatever the nearest, recently found cache was. Given my likelihood of returning in the foreseeable future, I set my pocket query to grab all of the caches found within the last 7 days (which this one just barely slipped into, but hey... whatever works). I’m the type of person who isn’t particularly fond of leaving DNF’s unresolved ToungeOut . We were staying at a vacation home owned by one of the family’s work that we got access to for a week, and happily they happened to have some bikes sitting in the garage for whoever’s here to use. Not the greatest things on earth, but they did the job.

My sister in law was up for a bike ride as well, so we booked it from the house, and headed the approx. 1.5 km’s (or whatever that converts to in miles... somewhere around 1ish... seriously USA, maybe jump on the metric system sometime with the rest of the planet ToungeOut ) towards the cache. It seemed to be an overcast day, so when we started out, it was a pretty nice temperature for biking. Somewhere in the ballpark of 20 degrees Celsius (again, see last bracketed section. Close to 70 Fahrenheit if I’m converting worth a damn). Aaaand then the sun decided to burn away the clouds. Being a few thousand km’s closer to the equator, your sun out here definitely does its job better than up in Manitoba.

So after Mr. Sun decided to start baking us like cookies, we soon made it to the geocache. Thankfully I found it pretty quickly, and spared no time in signing it and dropping in my signature chainmail ball. After replacing it as found, we headed back to the pharmacy right nearby and picked up a bottle of water. We didn’t bother to bring one because... eh... 3km bike ride in the shade, should be a walk in the park. Well, I could have fairly easily gunned it for home but the sister in law, being a less avid biker than myself, was starting to feel a bit faint, so we relaxed in the shade beside the pharmacy for a few minutes while rehydrating.

Yeah, seriously you guys... the sun down here... I don’t know how you do it. I imagine you’re well used to it by now, but I don’t know how you can go biking for any significant distance without burning to a crisp. On a related note, if you guys ever want to feel what actual cold is like (I saw people wearing long sleeved shirts and bundled up to an extent when it was like... 15°C (about 60°F) out), head up to Winnipeg, Manitoba in February and feel some minus 40 (C or F... it’s the same there) temperature. As the high for the day. And speaking of biking... I assume it’s just due to the area, but throwing in a sidewalk or biking path every so often might be a nice way to spend a few infrastructure dollars. We were not particularly fond of biking on the shoulder of the highway, but it was either that, or nothing.

But I digress. It was still a fun bike ride, and an absolutely phenomenal vacation. Thanks a million Florida, you guys are awesome BigSmile . Didn’t get a chance to get any other caches during this trip (unless I find one today, the 11th), so I’m glad I was able to knock this state of my list o’ places to find one (my furthest East cache too!) Smile .

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball