Back on track

After some time with illness and my son being away from home we are now continuing our adventure. Tonight it is cloudfree and not so cold so we went for 3 caches placed strategically around our city and the view of Uppsala with all the lights was really nice.

We also went for a mystery that gave us a 40 minute walk that my son really enjoyed, to bad I didn't find the cache but I'm sure my son will enjoy that walk more than one time. There is a thing with mystery caches at wintertime, it's hard to know if the cahe is hidden by snow or if you didn't solve the puzzle. I'm quite sure I solved the puzzle on this one but you can never be sure before you find the cache.

This is the puzzle I think I solved:
Y = [ X + 3#1212 X <- "KSBXGPJXCQLU"].
{XXX,YYY} = lists:split(3, [7#344 bxor X X <- Y, X > 5#1002]).

Weekend

This weekend my son stayed with his big sister so I didn't expect any adventures to happend this weekend. Atleast thats what I expected.

Saturday night big sister called and told us that my son had eaten a small canister of hair conditioner. Even if I didn't think he was in any danger it was still best to take him to the emergency ward. My son was in good mood and thought it was a fun little trip, he didn't even protest to much when we had to make him drink 2 dl of active carbon. In the end the doctor decided that the toxic substances in the conditioner was in such small quantities that it wouldn't do any harm to him and we got to go home. Or rather I drove son and big sister to her place before I turned around and went home. 4½ hour of pure adventure :)

A mystery solved

In geocaching there is a few different kind of caches. Three of the most ocmmon caches are the common one, a multi that involves visiting multiple coordinates before finding the logbook, and finally a mysterycache that involves solving a puzzle that in turn gives you the coordinates for the cache.

For a few weeks ago I noticed that there was a mysterycache 15 km from home and I have checked the puzzle a few times but I haven't even been close to finding the solution for the puzzle untill today. When I was feeding my aquarium it suddenly stroke me how to solve the puzzle and 90 seconds later I had the coordinates in my hand. The picture shows the puzzle and that picture is all you get, no explanations or anything.

Needles to say that we after lunch left for a quick trip to a village called Vänge and back. This little village had 4 caches together with the mystery I solved so I decided to give them all a go. I'm thankfull that all caches was within 300 meters from a good parking as it was really biting cold today (-22°C)

Just the two of us

For now close to 36 hours my wife and my daughter (also autistic) have been away from home. They went on a short cruise to Finland and left us guys home alone. It has been a bit cold to be out geocaching (-20°C) so I took a chanse and stayed home even if we got home from work and school early and it worked! After dinner we have been sitting in the sofa wathing TV and my soon has been right next to me under a blanket and laughing at things that he sees on the TV. Not many days a year when he is that easy to keep satisfied.

Road Trip

No geocaching today. Instead another of my hobbies took most of the day. Right after lunch we left home to drive to the town Enköping to buy some corals from a guy with a marvelous reef aquarium. We got the followin corals with us home:

Montipora capricornis
Montipora digitata
Montipora hirsuta
Seriatopora hystrix

After that we went ot another town here around called Bro where a friend of mine has created a filter assembly to hold media like carbon and phosphate remover inside my refugium.

All in all my son got a good 2½ hours in the car and he doesn't complain :)

Preparations

Today me and my son have taken it easy. No hiking, no long trips. All we did today was a short trip to my workplace to get some deionized water for my aquarium and when we were in town we also did some reconnaissance for a few urban caches.

Most of my day I have looked and planned for longer adventures later this year, and one thing that is keeping down the length of our trips is the food situation as my son is a bit picky with what he eats. At the moment I'm searching for food that is lightweigth, easy to cook (Preferably only add boiling water) and that my son will eat. I think I have figured out a working breakfast and eveningmeal with hot chocolate and crispbread. It's not much but atleast it's something.