GeoCaching... High tech hide and seek!

The sport where you are the Search Engine!

Yes, we're addicted now... At least Meri & I are. We have found 4 so far around our area and beyond.

Meri and I risked mosquito bites and thorny weeds tromping down as much weeds as we could looking last night for a very elusive cache. We'd been to this area 3 times already and this 4th time was going to be our last attempt, because we were going to give up on this particular one.

The GPS first set us on a few different trees about 50 feet from where it sic'ed us next. I actually called my husband and had him call a former co-worker who had found this cache before. He wasn't home... darn. And I felt Robb was mocking me...

I think the trees all above were wreaking havoc with my GPS. So we started tromping thru weeds and underbrush on the other side of the path. While we were searching, we heard voices coming down the path. We froze. Around the corner were the parents and little girl, who was a a classmate of Meris.

I smiled and waved.

The husband almost jumped 3 feet back. Apparently they were telling ghost stories about this forested area to their daughter and having a middle aged woman waving and smiling weirdly from the forest freaked him out just a little...

I explained what we were doing and they seemed a little more calmed down. This will be an interesting fall at school... "There goes that creepy woman who roams the woods!"

Anyway, on the other side of the wooded area was a soybean field. Meri had just about given up and sat down next to a row of soybeans to grumble about this being our 4th time here and no success. I started around the tree that we thought it should've been in and saw a little mud covered canister on the muddy ground in front of me. I'd found it! It should be against the law to have caches so small!

I think the winter storms must have knocked it out of the big old gnarly tree next to it because the clue for this cache was that it wasn't on the ground. The last people who had found it was in October 2008. So I wrote my little note on the paper and sealed it back up. Meri found a good spot to stick it on the tree and we stopped for ice cream on the home.

I will not refer to these little treks as a hike because Meri is adamant that they're not. Hikes insinuate that this is exercise... They are adventures! and make her feel more like Nancy Drew solving mysteries... She will forever be sleuthing!