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Warmer day than most of the week. Sunny and 63°F. I went geocaching in Central Jersey because I was planning to go to Rainforest Cafe afterwards to use my birthday coupon, which had been sitting in my bag o' coupons for more than a month. It was a fine day to walk in the woods. With one possible exception, all of today's cache sites were pretty good.

At "The Ol' Swimming Hole", I had a little trouble finding the final part of the cache so I headed back to the first stage to check my information. Along the way, BigA800 saw me and called out to me. That was fortunate because he had cache information that was more up-to-date than mine. There was apparently an overnight correction in the formula for deriving the coordinates. Anyway, we chatted for a while and headed our separate ways.

After the last cache, which was in East Brunswick, I headed back up US-1 to Menlo Park Mall for Rainforest Cafe. I hardly ever go to that themed restaurant because the food is unremarkable and a bit pricey, and the attraction is mostly in the jungle decor and sounds. The restaurant was pretty busy (Recession? What recession?) but there was no wait for a table. I had the catfish platter.

The caches... )
mortonfox: (gps)
Sunny day again. Temperatures topped out in the upper 70s. I had a choice of several different travel directions today but I chose Central Jersey so that I could use my Rainforest Cafe birthday coupon at the end of the day. Sadly, that was not to be but I still did a lot today.

Most of today's geocaches were pretty easy. The two "Do-You-Dare..." geocaches were easy too, once I read the online logs and realized what it was that I was looking for. The sad part is every other park I visited today was a dump. I picked up litter and filled up two bags just walking a few hundred feet into wooded areas at those locations. Central Jersey has issues. On the flip side, Rutgers Gardens, where I found "Bam! Boo!" and "geokuch", was surprisingly clean for an area open to the public.

At sundown, I called Rainforest Cafe in Edison to ask about restaurant hours on Sunday. It was only open until 7:30pm, which wouldn't do because it was already 7pm when I called. So instead, I had a meatball hot-to-go bowl at Wawa in Dayton and then returned home.

The caches... )

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