GC8DDBG Traditional Cache Holiday Road #1: Cousin Eddie
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro Micro | Difficulty: 2 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: Wulff Pack @ | Hide Date: 09/09/2019 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 12.772 W104° 14.986 | Last updated: 06/19/2022 | Fav points: 0
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Real tomato ketchup Eddie?

Cousin Eddie -played by Randy Quaid - was one of the most memorable characters in The Vacation movie franchise of the 1980s.  The lovable goof, with the steel plate in his head and a heart as big as the World's Second Largest Ball of Twine (only four short hours away!) lived on a western Kansas farm, in the movie.  But in real life, that old homestead is here in Pueblo County, Colorado!  

This is the first, in what I hope will be a series of geocaches marking the filming locations for the Vacation movie in Colorado.  This was some old-school filmmaking, the cast and crew crossed this great land, filming scenes on location (even Christie Brinkley tagged along for much of the trip).  At least a half-dozen scenes were shot in Colorado, from Pueblo in the east,  to Durango in the west. 

The geocache is not right in front of the house, because I wanted to respect the owner's privacy.  Rather it is down Apple Road, about a half-mile east.  You can see it from the geocache, which is on the highway right-of-way.  

 

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5 Logs: Found it 4  Write note 1  

Write note 03/14/2020 By Room1009
I stopped on my return trip and took a look at the house. Yep, that's it. I dropped a travel bug for someone to move along.

Found it 03/12/2020 By iowagirl22
Found with Room1009 on an otherwise boring road trip. It's a little prickly there. Thanks for the hide.

Found it 03/12/2020 By Room1009
I stopped by here very early this morning while it was still dark. I had to use a flashlight to see the container. It was bigger than I expected. I knew National Lampoon Vacation was filmed on location, but I didn’t know this was one of the locations. Too bad I couldn’t see the house in the dark. I wish someone would place caches at some of the other locations (Coolidge, Kansas and Dodge City, Kansas). Thanks for the new hide. There aren’t many in this area

Found it 03/07/2020 By sharsha1975
Cool idea to do film themes

Found it 02/10/2020 By PickleWoods
We grabbed this cache, along with the TB, just as the snow started to fly. On to Denver! TFTC