We at TEF will take over

Rocket Men and Machines Cache GCB95F

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Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 9:31 PM

Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Cache Adoption

I have accepted a Manufacturing Operations Manager position with a company in Forest Grove, Oregon, (Portland area) and will therefore soon be relocating there with my family. I will be leaving June 14th and will only return once or twice to sell the house, etc. and then deal with the movers and get the family, dog, & cat on a plane to Oregon.

I would like to keep as many of our caches here active as possible, however to do that, someone will have to adopt them.

The caches I would like to see adopted are:

Cactus Point Vista GC7D1D

Crismon Tide GC80A4 (now that the hot weather is here, I can replace this one).

Dance School Joke Stash GC446C

Fall Nymph #1 GC9864

Fall Nymph #2 GC9B6A

Fall Nymph #3 GCGZ6Q

Rescue Me's Hilly Hideout GC35C6

Rocket Men and Machines Cache GCB95F

If anyone would kindly like to adopt these caches, please let me know.

I just want to say thank you to everyone who has hidden the caches that we have found and contributed to the Guy's Family time that my boys and I have experienced while Geocaching. Most of the caches that we have done together were done while my wife, (who works most Friday nights as a Labor and Delivery nurse) gets her rest on a Saturday. It's provided a real bond for my boys and I and also mercifully removed us from the house Saturdays so that my wife could get some much needed rest. She works 2 - 12 hour nights a week, and she works Friday nights so that our younger boys are only in daycare once per week.

Caching has taken us to places we had no idea existed, and given us time to enjoy all the playground equipment on hundreds of parks and green areas in the Valley. Just try to get through a microcache in a park with playground equipment and try to get my toddler out of there without some playtime. Factor in diaper changes, getting them something to eat, bathroom breaks, pure meltdowns, getting out the baby backpack, loading Erik into it, forgetting sunscreen, unloading, applying, catching, loading, oops forgot GPS in SUV, hiking to cache, , unloading him, Trying to keep my toddler from taking every car he ever saw in a cache, trying to sign log while trying to catch him, loading up for return trip, halfway down realizing I still have the pen from the cache, hiking back up, going back, getting tired after a long day so dumping the extra water that I always carry for the hikes, dealing with 12 y.o. sarcasm as we hike back DOWN the hill - I can beat him up with the backpack most times, however years of playing football and wrestling have made it so any decent just KILLS my knees so he can beat me down, getting back to car, getting backpack off back, getting toddler in safety seat, cussing because I can't fasten it, putting backpack in back of car, leaving GPS on the back bumper and driving off, returning 5 minutes later stunned that it is still there, driving home while all kids are asleep and looking in the rearview mirror and realize how much I love to spend this time with them...Marathon caching has never been an option for us...nor would we ever want it to be.

So, in closing I can truthfully say that Arizona Geocaching has been an adventure for us, especially with an event that occurred that we never thought we would find. So again, we thank you all. Good luck to all of you and have fun out there caching. We're looking forward to finding out how they do things in Oregon.

Again, if anyone would like to adopt one of the above caches, please let me know.