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Angel came in this morning and woke me up. She asked what our plans for the day. I replied with the list of GeoCaching, Her Eye Exam, Michaels for art supplies, giving mom her personal number, and a few other things. “Good, because our plans have just been drastically changed”.

She proceeded to tell me that we were going to go and see her friend with the dogs in Steven, Virginia. She sent me the directions to print out and said we could go GeoCaching up there instead. Also, we were bringing one of the cats - Raven, to test if the dog could get along.

It took two hours to get there. My cell phone wouldn’t work on the digital or analog networks. I couldn’t roam and call. The girls played with raven at the post office while I walked to the nearest gas station. The cashier let me make a phone call since it was local. After I got instructions from our friends mom, the cashier and a customer gave me more instructions on how to get there and what to look for.

The dogs were long haired with knots, outside, no shots, and not trained. After petting some of the dogs, I could feel grime on my hands. Ugh! A really big concern is heart worm. I want to be certain that the dog does not have heart worm before I bring him in. She wanted the collie that was completely black. We had a good time trying to get his two other brothers back into the pen while they played with the other.

Her friend let me use his laptop and I searched for a few caches in the area. I found two that were rite next to each other (GCJ0M2 & GCJ0M3). These were called Bird Knob Ridge Fair View First Aid, and Bird Knob Ridge Better View.

We took off and drove around the mountain looking for a way up. We came across a few dead ends. We were going to go up a drive way until we saw that it was marked as private property. We decided to go back and find one that had coordinates for parking.

I found one called Story Book Cache (GCJ3VE) Our friend said that he might know of the area when he looked at the map. We went for the drive and found the suggested spot for parking. We crossed a bridge and started walking across the bride and further down the trail. I noticed that the GPS device said it was behind us. Our friend said that the trail wraps around. We continued on and then decided to go back in the other direction when it said it was a mile away.

We walked and we walked. It was starting to get dark. A half hour later, we arrived at a trail that seemed to head in the rite direction. I was a little aggravated that there was a parking area there that wasn’t mentioned on the web page. We had just lost a lot of daylight.

We headed up the trail. We got within .25 miles until Angel asked if we could go back to the car. She was tired, and I guess I was a little tired too. I didn’t want her to get upset and I thought she was thinking that I wasted her time. Our friend didn’t have any arguments for turning around either.

I was dark by time we got off the trail. Angel would close her eyes and walk as she listened to the two of us on both sides of her. She bumped into me a few times, but it helped pass the time while we got back to the car.

We went back to the house, picked up my sister in-law and Raven, and headed to our friends restaurant. After dinner, we headed back home. Raven didn’t even get to meet the dog. I think he made some new friends with the cats in the house though.

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