Hail To The Chief - 5!We went out on our second geocache expedition today and the first since our inaugural find in North Carolina back in June. What a blast this new hobby is. Even Jamie, our 3 1/2 year old daughter got into it. We plotted two geocache possibilites and printed them out and took off with gps and camera in hand. Of course as we turned onto the freeway it started to rain. We looked over our first target and decided we knew the area it would be in but not the exact location. Part of the fun is guessing the clue(s) and going from there.
As we arrived the rain abated some and Martha jumped out to take a look around. We knew it was in a magnetic box from the clue so we surmised it would be attached to some kind of metal. She stumbled around for about 5 minutes and nothing. Then we decided it was actually ok to park where we were and all three of us got out after looking at our printouts and reading some of the comments from previews finders and found another clue...we were looking on the wrong side of the street. I saw a structure I was sure it would be attached to and got down on my hands and knees to look around. Having no success I started to get up when I heard my wife shout out "I found it!" What a little rush that was!
She held up her prize grinning and waited for me to produce the camera to mark the occasion:
Of course we made sure it was not near the actual location in the photo. No spoilers here. We found the token inside a couple of finders ago had left and decided to leave a memento of our own. We left a small military pin with the needle broken off commorating the U.S. Army. As this particular President was a former general we felt compelled to honor him.
All in all that was really fun. Also just found out through the geocaching web site how to sort by distance from my house the geocaches in my area. I think its a safe bet we will hit all of them and who knows,....we make make a couple ourselves and start paying back the fun.
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