 February 16, 2009 by seastar255 (2599 found)
well well well, what have we here? well i do believe we have found a cache!!rewind to about two years ago:
i was on a puzzle kick, looking at every puzzle cache within 50 miles of my home gz and after scrolling thru quite a few pages, came upon this little beauty. stuck with it for a few days and eventually somehow, squeezed out a message. however, i had no idea what to do with this new found information, seems my grey matter was a bit worn out just getting this far. so i tabled the info for a future mcpuzzle attack. fast forward to current time:
well once again, i gandered a look at all the available puzzle caches nearest my home coords. the list is a whole lot shorter now, so this one came up rather quickly. i decided to start over from square one and disregard my previous efforts on the possibility that i was on the wrong track. but so much time had passed, i was completely lost and could not even reconstruct my original message. so i decided to go thru a couple of piles of papers and find my old efforts. fortunately, we are amateur pack rats and soon i had the old notes in hand. ok so what did that get me, i’m back to where i was two years ago and still as much confused. then it happened. you know, most people have a light bulb go off. well, mine was no light bulb, more like a birthday candle that has seen one too many birthdays. a bit dim, but a light none the less. you see, i just recently figured out a certain puzzle cache and i got to thinking, what if they shared the same solution. heck, i tried just about everything else, why not give it a try. it took a bit of digging, but my theory was correct. so after two years and way too much time on my hands, i had a set of coords in my hands. i could hardly wait to get off from work today. i gassed up on the way home and picked up tony’s girl and off we went. we wondered what we would find, if we would even find anything since it has been unfound for so long. it was so funny, cause it too so long to solve, so long to drive there and we walk right up and find it, as it was just sitting there, exposed, for all this time. there was some moisture and the swag pretty much trashed. we rescued what we could, dried it out and proudly signed our names (next finder needs to bring a pen, as there is no longer a pen in the container.) the log is in good shape. so overrover, i don’t know if 2 years, 10 months, and 24 days (or if you prefer, 91,670,400 seconds or 1,527,840 minutes or 25,464 hours, or 151 weeks) between finds is any kind of record but i’m sorry i had to end this long unfound streak. this was as much a rush as a ftf. thanks for the workout. thanks for the hide.
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