Bob Blaylock: Alas, the time seems to have come bring this cache to an end.
I've received word that the store that was key to the first stage is no more. It was a door, in a hallway, the back door to a store named “Caché”. The sign, being less fancy, lacking the accent mark, read…
[b]CACHE
1286[/b]
I figured the word [i]“CACHE”[/i] would get the attention of anyone looking for a cache, and the [i]“1286”[/i] was the number that you needed to solve the puzzle, and find the second stage. Directly above this location was a Victoria's Secret store, hence the hint, [i]“This place is no secret; if you think otherwise, then you're probably too high.”[/i]
The second stage was in Bellevue Park, along the south side thereof. A [i]shed[/i] of some sort, with a [i]brick wall[/i] behind it. The cache was placed in the space between that brick wall and the fence just behind it, just inside the west edge of that wall, which would have been to the [i]right[/i] as seen facing the shed.
Just today, I went there to retrieve the cache container. I found the shed and the wall so overgrown with vines as to be difficult to see. Last time I was there, and every time before then, the shed and the wall were much more clearly visible.
I'll have to keep my eyes open for a new place to hide the container, with its current contents, as a new cache.