Four for Five: by now you know what this blog is about...

And another fantastic day it was.

The clouds were out where the sun was supposed to be and it started to rain a bit at our first destination but the wind picked up, the temps dropped and the rain clouds blew away.

Today's adventure took us along Arakawa River, one of the biggest rivers flowing into Tokyo Bay. Our first stop was a really old dam sight called Komatsugawa Dam. The park was closed for. Instruction and ground zero led us directly to a lamp post where the cache should have been magnetically attached but as the lamp as most recently renewed we couldn't find anything. I left a maintenance notice on the website and asked the owner to come and check as the. Instruction may have displaced the cache. The las find was I November, a Minh before construction started.

Then we went to Arakawa Dam and found this magnetic nano sized cache tucked away. It was hard to find due to its size. Also a cigarette smoking roadie stopped for a drink and a smoke so we had to wait until he moved off. The hot bourbon we had packed was a nice distraction in the meantime.

Then we went onto the Arakawa Cycling Road which goes right down to 0km from the sea. It runs out in the middle of the river right under an expressway and simply... ends. We got that cache right away and enjoyed some more beverage in a sunny spot that blocked some of the wind.

Off to Kasai Rinkai Park where we struggled through the wind and finally got to the spot where our fourth search immediately brought us to the cache spot right in front of a giant ferris wheel (have you ever seen a tiny ferris wheel? Me either). We logged it, took a travel bug and left a travel bug and then went on to our last spot for the day near the sea and near a duck blind.

It took a bit to find this camouflaged baby but with a bit of a hint I picked it up and caught it in about 10 minutes of rifling through the underbrush. We could see Disney Land just over to our left and sat back against the pines and enjoyed some more hot bourbon.

The ride home was cold as hell but we made it back, cooked up dinner and then took a long hot bath.

Hiroko rose her mamachari today and realized how heavy those slag puppies really are compared to my Dahon (which I rode today). She loves getting out because every place we go to is something she has never seen even in her own neighborhood after living here over a decade and for her entire 4 *cough cough* years. She really is grateful that she gets to come out on these adventures with me and now wants her own bike tha is light and foldable as well.

Tomorrow is the las day of the holidays and then the hell at work begins again. I'm surprised I had a couple of days of peace in total.

I love you!
And I love geocaching!

Cam


Nano cache at Arakawa Dan


Micro at Arakawa Ground Zero


Big jewel in Kasai Rinkai Park


Can you see the cache? Amazing!