Recovery & Geocaching

So Bridge has surgery a few weeks ago and has been slowly returning to normal. It is always amazing to me how depleted a body can become during the healing process. Her surgeon put it a good way prior to her surgery - "you only have so much metabolic energy each day - most of it is taken up by the healing process." Regardless - she was starting to go stir crazy and I was starting to worry about our general health unless we got out of the house (I get concerned when she smiles and snickers to herself while looking in my general direction).

So - we grabbed a few easy to access geocaches on Sunday afternoon and headed out. Geocaching is a weird sport/hobby. There is very little in the way of investment past the cost of a decent GPS receiver, fuel, and time. One of our favorite types of geocaching locations are in cemeteries. We usually run across one cache each trip in a cemetery or at least near one. Sunday was no exception. Having come from Idaho, the cemeteries are relatively newer and more manicured. We love the old cemeteries in Oregon and marvel at the old headstones and overgrown burial plots.

Other caches can be found down old logging roads and are tucked away neatly in stumps or old fallen tree trunks. Its starting to look like spring again on the coast and the green is really starting to return. Old growth forests and old cemeteries on a relatively sunny/warm day - what more could you ask for.

We had a great day and Bridge was feeling the effects of cabin fever much less by the end of the day. Unfortunately the weekends always end far to quickly.