The Chronicles of John Trammell

  Last January, the California 4-H Technology Team decided to move the location of their team orientation from being at the State 4-H Office at UC Davis, to the Nevada 4-H State Camp, on the south shore of Lake Tahoe, Stateline, Nevada.  The tech team invited the CA 4-H State Ambassadors along, so both teams would work on building a relationship with both teams.  The event turned out to be very successful, and the State 4-H Staff had decided to do it again for the 2011 year.  Since the tech team term year had changed from January-December to July-August, they decided to call this event an CA 4-H Winter Retreat.  This would be a retreat for the tech team, state ambassadors, and collegiate 4-H members where all teams would do trainings, build a working relationship between the teams, and have each team meet privately to work on team projects.  This blog post is about my experiences at this winter retreat.  This shall be my second time attending this event, which also happens to be my sec

 A year ago, I was looking around different places around the state where I could travel too and look for geocaches.  I had discovered that a geocache was hidden inside the Amboy Crater, a cinder cone volcano in the Mojave Desert, off of historical route 66 between Barstow and Needles.  I shared this with two of my best friends Scotty and Jane, and they got interested in joining me to find the cache.  As time moved on, I got busy, and when I had free time, it was too hot in the desert.  A year later, I re-mentioned it to Jane and Scotty and they again were interested.  I took a look again at geocaches hidden out there, and noticed two caches now were in the Amboy Crater, and tons of caches in the surrounding areas.  Last Thursday was the day we traveled out to the Amboy to have a geocaching adventure.  This would be the first major trip I have done with a purpose of only geocaching.            I woke up at 6 in the morning by my phone alarm, but didn't get out of the warm bed unt