Quality caching with my little girl

WARNING: CACHE SPOILERS BELOW. DO NOT READ IF YOU INTEND ON VISITNG KINGSTON TN ANY TIME SOON

I took my daughter for a caching run today targeting a bunch of caches in the Kingston area. A number of these were puzzles I had solved a while back, but hadn't found since I'm not in the area often. It isn't far away, but is also not somewhere we tend to drive by. I packed up a picnic lunch, the dog and a bunch of toys to trade, then we were off, down highway 95 and 58.



Our first few stops where at rather typical caches, but ones that my daughter would enjoy. Traditional type caches with a size designation of Regular, so that there would be a good chance of finding some toys. The first one took us on a nice little stroll in a little park, and we scored our first trade items. The next one was in a thorny area and was full of water.

We finally got to a cache that I was really interested in seeking called !AMAZBALLS! by Lullabye4U and Kaput360. This duo has created some very memorable caches, some of which I have blogged about before on my family blog. This one is another piece of engineering and machining work that is something to behold. A huge slab of aluminum was carefully milled out to have a maze on both sides, with several passages that connect one side to the other. Completing the maze wasn't actually that difficult, and yielded a code which was used to open up a locked box, but I couldn't help but sit and admire the craftsmanship and thought that went into this cache. If it weren't for the swarms of mosquitoes buzzing around us at GZ, we might still be there.

Aftre such an awesome cache I was thikning that the rest of the caches on our tour would be let-downs. But our next stop brought us to another nice cache, one that my daughter fell in love with. It was a simple fire pull station mounted to a dead tree trunk, but what made my daughter really love the cache was how all the toys inside were arranged neatly on little hooks. There were some travel bugs, necklaces, rings, nail paint, all sorts of little princess toys and she was in 3-yr-old-girl heaven. It took her quite a while to finally decide what she wanted to trade for, an emerald ring, and we left a big plastic toy truck for the next lucky kid.

The name of this cache is Fire at Will, and it is by the same COs as !AMAZEBALLS!. We ended up finding two more caches by these COs, GC5NHD3 and GC5JNB9, both fun little puzzles and great hides. This took us to a nice park on the shores of Watts Bar lake, where we had a pleasant picnic under the sun. There may not be a ton of caches in the Kingston area, but there are certainly some very good ones there, making it a worthy destination for any Tennessean cacher.