Found 30 today while waiting for my car to get fixed. Too many poorly maintained caches or it could’ve been more. Most exciting find wasn’t a cache. While I was at one of the DNFs today, I heard something above me. After I realized what it was, I looked up and it was a hummingbird! In November!
Also spotted a pair of meadowlarks around the corner. Wish I knew my raptors out here, I’m sure I’m spotting new ones for me but I have no idea what they are.
Never got to any of the puzzle or challenge caches I was thinking about targeting, just pure numbers while staying within 10 minutes driving time from the dealership to be ready when they were ready. The big scary thing that was wrong with the car (service high voltage charging system) was just low battery fluid. The repair guy is learning that this is common with the ’14s. So happy it wasn’t another rat chewing through the wiring!
All the time I’ve owned this car, I thought it was a system that ran on battery, and then switched over to gas engine – which could also be used to charge the battery while driving. WRONG. The real way is much better designed than that. There are two small engines that act as generators to supply the battery with electricity when the charge is gone. So, when I switch to “mountain mode” to recharge my batteries, I’m really not doing much except running more gas engine power and storing it as electricity to use when I drive around Bonanza. Probably uses more gas that way. The guys at the dealership had never heard of anyone driving a Volt without charging it, but I can’t plug it in at all here, and the charging stations in KF are far enough away that I’d use half the charge up just driving back home.
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