Drove out to Santee to the Mesa Road trailhead so I wouldn't have to walk QUITE as far to find a certain puzzle geocache. So far, so good. Up the trail I went, made the find, and headed back. I got the bright idea to follow a little trail off the main trail. There wasn't a SIGN saying NOT TO, so I did. I figured there might be a connection between THIS hill and ANOTHER hill where there was a cache I was looking for, several times in fact. Well, I headed along this little path, and I'm certainly not the first. Found this nicely constructed fire pit/ring/circle/whatever. Undisturbed gray ash, in use since the last rain? Hmmmm.
Headed on along, now the trail is going down into a ravine, and the trail is fading out. And at the bottom, it's gone. So I'm bushwhacking my way up the hill, hoping to the road/trail that I know is up there. And yet, I keep going up. Up up up the hill, I'm at the top, no road. Whoops, I see houses below. I'm on the wrong hill! The road (that's old Mesa Road, by the way) goes over THAT hill. So I gotta bushwhack my way down to the houses, which I'm sure both the park rangers and the home owners would be thrilled to see.
Well, I get past the houses and find the cache area. And find the cache, THIS time! Fabulous. So now I head down the old Mesa Road trail. Well, eventually I find it, it is kind of overgrown. And eventually I make it back to the vehicle, and home again.
So I get home, I'm on the computer here logging the caches, FTPing the pics, and starting the blog entry, when I feel something crawling around and THIS THING falls out of my hair and on to the desk. It's wiggling around! What the heck is it? Looks like a little twig piece, but it's MOVING!! It squished nice and mushy, I'll tell you what!
Really, people, I REALLY want to know what this thing is!!
P.S. I took the Last Bag of Pepsi Cans to the recycling today. Got $11.45, which I shall use for gas.
P.P.S. Love my new red Sears Vacuum Cleaner!'
P.P.P.S Totally forgot about the guy! As I was strolling down Mesa Road/Trail, high above the valley, I could hear some guy yelling various rambling obscenities, religious opinions, and his views on various foods. I couldn't spot where it was coming from, maybe he was hiding in the bushes. Strange!
2 comments:
YUCK! I would have wigged out if I had found that worm in my hair!!!
I guess it's some type of caterpillar. Put it in a jar with leaves and branches and see if it makes a cocoon.
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