Geocaching Headquarters

We arrived in our Seattle suburb home/campground about 1:00 PM Thursday. After getting settled we headed downtown to the geocaching headquarters to get the lay of the land. There was a scheduled event that evening and many geocaches in the area. We found a couple of them and then headed to the event where we saw geocachers we knew from Arizona who attend my events. We got credit for the event and headed back to the camper before dark. The trip home took about as long as the trip down because of not knowing the streets as well as we should have. People warned us of the SLOW traffic, crowded roads, narrow streets. They were not kidding. It took almost an hour to travel 20 blocks to the freeway after the HQ tour, and that was at 2:00! It is what it is.

the Troll lives under a bridge and is a BIG tourist attraction

and the location of a geocache

there was a geocache in the 'chairy tree'

an interesting street sign

there was an interesting story to this rocket

photo op at the last cache we collected today

we had a reservation for a tour of Headquarters

our tour group of about 15

there were people from Sweden & Germany in our group

we got to meet Bryan, one of the GC co-founders

he works standing on a treadmill, 

moving at a very slow speed

2015 is Geocaching's 15th birthday

more cachers than usual are attending this year's events

about 1:00, the skies open and the rain poured down

there had been light sprinkles earlier

we had rain coats, so we didn't get too wet

two more days of caching adventures, then 

we will play tourists