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This is a special kind of traveling microcache. This cache will be found in one of two places:
1. At, in, on, beside, or in some way co-located with one of the many caches hidden by Just A Short Walk; or
2. In the hands of a geocacher who has found it and is transporting it to the next cache.
To help locate this cache, you'll need to visit the page for the Travel Bug we've attached to this cache to help track it.
This cache is a tribute to Just a Short Walk, who was the first to hide over 100 caches, and remains the stalwart of the Central Coast geocaching scene. He has adopted lost geocaches, done cache maintenance for many others, and has placed innovative and sensitively-located containers everywhere. He helped us hide our first cache, gave invaluable tips and pointers, and has provided us with many great geocaching adventures. This is a tribute cache to Just a Short Walk from some of his Central Coast admirers, to be released at the Summer Solstice Central Coast Geocache Picnic on June 21st, 2003.
The cache has the following rules:
1. Once found, it must be relocated in, or as close to, the hiding place for any cache hidden by Just A Short Walk. You have, at this writing, choice of more than 125 locations! So, stick it inside the ammo can, velcro it next to the altoids box, affix it magnetically next to that keyfinder -- anywhere on the 'premises' of a Just a Short Walk cache will do.
2. Please log your find in the logbook and on its tracking Travel Bug page which will substitute for a cache page. Don't forget to 'drop off' the Travel Bug on the cache when logging it here!
3. Please keep the cache moving! Plan ahead where you're going to re-hide it before you hunt it. (This will take you to at least two Just a Short Walk caches!)
4. The cache is also a special PAPER CURRENCY SWAP. We're starting it out with a 1000-Lira note with a portrait of Giuseppe Verdi on it. You can swap in any other portrait from a piece of money you'd like; we'd like to see how many different portraits we can swap in.
5. Last but not least, this cache is a GAME designed to amuse both you as the cacher and Just a Short Walk. The game has the following components:
- Everytime a cacher successfully hides it at ANY Just a Short Walk cache, the "Cachers Team" scores one point. If it's in a cache where the Not Just ANOTHER Short Walk traveling microcache has not yet appeared, score one bonus point.
- Anytime Just a Short Walk encounters this cache while doing cache maintenance, etc. he scores 10 points. If Just a Short Walk places this in a new cache, he scores 25 points! Just a Short Walk has the option of swapping in his Just a Short Walk Signature Million Dollar Bill (if it will fit) for the portrait-swap portion of this game.
- Score will be kept on this page.
As of the most recent update (June 18, 2003), the current score is: The Cachers Team: 0 points; Just a Short Walk: 0 Points.
Now, Just a Short Walk has put some caches in some pretty weird spots, in sizes from the ultramicro to the gigantic. To help equip the cache to co-locate with an existing Just a Short Walk cache, it has powerful magnets on the bottom. You may need to use velcro, fishing line, or another way of affixing this cache that is like that of the 'host' cache; there are spots on the cache container for velcro tape and/or line for you to attach it.
The cache has a tiny logbook, the travel bug, and a brief explanatory note in it in lieu of a full geocaching letter, and is starting with the aforementioned 1000 Lira note featuring Giuseppe Verdi. It also has a small pencil nub, but you might want to bring your own pen.
The difficulty and terrain natives are probable maximums for finding the Just a Short Walk cache in question; obviously difficulty is going to vary quite a bit.
Good luck, and our thanks again to Just A Short Walk!
One quick PS: since the powers that be that are running geocaching have now banned traveling microcaches -- could the $5 they collect for Travel Bug tags have anything to do with that? nah, of course not -- if you like this cache, please post something on Geocaching.com's discussion forums about how dumb it is to ban traveling caches.