By Louise Kempker (freeweez)
We cachers who live in and around Anchorage think nothing of traveling 1 or 2 hours —either north or south –to find some smileys! So why not just fly north (only a little over one hour flight) for some caching adventures —Hyfolks26 (Heather) and Freeweez (Weez) asked ourselves? Sure—why not? So plane reservations were made and on a very lovely Saturday morning—we were on a north-bound Alaska Airplane headed for Nome!!
There is only one puzzle cache in Nome, Algerbraic!, and Freeweez asked the math-teacher-grandson help in solving it. It was the first stop after securing the rental (car)—which turned out to be a very big, white 8 passenger van! Yes—For just the 2 of us!! After signing that log, we lucked out, however, and half of the RSPace team… Sarah… was available and willing to ride with us on the hunt for smileys! It was a perfect day in all ways, as Sarah was able to provide the special tour-guide insights to all of Nome for us!
We
found 13 caches in all –some in town and some just outside of town. Some on the hills—and some near the beach! We even got the FTF on a newly published cache, Powerful View in Line of Site, by SailorGirlRN. Thanks for placing that one just for us!!! Freeweez was sure, after hearing from other cachers who have visited Nome….that she would see Muskox roaming the streets! Well—that didn’t happen! But some were seen on a nearby hillside anyway!
One special cache, Ode to the Coffee Crew, was in a perfect location where the other half of RSPace was helping with building construction for the radio station KICY. Isn’t that a neat name
for a radio station up north? After a yummy lunch, we headed for the beach where Weez picked up some very pretty colored beach glass, and Heather was able to share some of Andy’s Ashes into the Bering Sea in a quiet, reflective moment. We won’t talk about how Heather (almost) got that big, huge van stuck in the soft sand at the beach!!
We laughed a lot, had a ton of fun, and surely made Nome Memories! Near the end of our journey—the van was returned along with Sarah to her hubby, and Heather and Weez flew back home. Wanna go caching someplace for a day? Just ask HyFolks26 or Freeweez —they are game for another caching adventure! Sure—the Nome caching adventure may have cost just a bit more than driving a couple of hours for some smileys—but they would do it again in a heart-beat!