Out Muddin'

This all started back in November....The Black Friday Team. Seester and Potential fell for geocaching that day, and it has been in their system ever since. Potential got Seester a Garmin for Christmas....I got Potential, The Idiot's Guide, and Potential got me wine! The circle is complete!!

With Potential being in TN, some Deer thing, Seester and I ( at work one day) made plans for a geocaching blow out! ( Ya....we work together ) We had a plan and it all took place yesterday. I was loaded down with a variety of print offs, and I swing by to get her...right on time. Already this plan is going smooth. She is dressed in trekking boots, with a designer giraffe purse and a thick cammo coat...which I think is...oh ya...an old one from 1st SGT!! Hmmm...well that is good, maybe all his knowledge will ooze through the seams! LOL

The plan, and you know how the plans NEVER go as directed, is to head out, pick up a few quick stop and grabs, with us eventually landing at a watering hole, for a late lunch and drinks. And actually, this part was a go. The caches were quick...it was the muddin' that slowed us down!!

With just a few caches left, we pull into an "off road" cache. There actually were tire tracks ahead of us, and the snow wasn't really deep....I think it was the frozen snow , and then the mud that was the kicker! Decided not to drive in all the way, but did go as far as the first slope, and parked in a decent area, going to walk the remaining distance. The cache was quick. It was when we went to leave, the whole "3-point-turn-about" that nailed us. Our first thought was to go up the slope, which we thought was feasible ... but the turning round ... was the kick!! There was NO TURNING... we just slid down the rest of the slope ... sideways! After several attempts, back and forth, turn the wheels this way... no try back way... no to the right, well...try the left...we saw mud flying! We are literally out in the middle of no where! I was trying to think of the words, when I had to call my father-in-law to pull us out! ( Seeing he had to do that already once for me...out at the farm) I wanted to go to plan B! We both got out of the car, and surveyed the situation. Hey, we are " college degreed" ... we can figure something out! Armed with rugs, and garbage bags...we do, the almost impossible. I love the part when Seester says..."is this a front wheel drive?" No Seester, right now it is a "NO WHEEL DRIVE"

Once we got it moving, we didn't stop, Seester drove it completely around the whole area, and I trekked back up to the entrance. Had to stop for a photo shoot! Seester got a picture of me LMAO...and in the background you can see the muddy rugs! We kinda wanted pics of the ruts...but nah, didn't want them bad enough to walk down to the crime scene!

We were off to the next cache, flying down the asphalt, getting "mud off the tires" ! LOL The tread on the tires, may be a little worn but, See ... we don't need no truck!

Even with the "mud delay" we were at the watering hole....what? Before they opened!?! What....? Ok, headed off for another cache... really not close by, but close enough to waste some time! At this cache...we decided to park at the entrance and hoof it in...see we are smarter already!

Ended the day at the watering hole , got a great picture of seester in her "designer outfit" and had Gretchen Wilson in mind, as we sat...and got .... "BUD - WISER"!! ( I know, that was bad pun....)