The cache is not at the given location. To find the location
of the cache, you have to decipher the below message.
The art of secret writing is very old, so old that a
device, the skytale, was used by the Spartans 2,500 years ago
embodied the basic principal for one of the most important ciphers
of the American Civil War, wrapping a strip of paper around a shaft
slantwise and then writing the message. When the strip was unwound,
it was just a bunch of letters in a random order.
Julius Caesar used a cipher of simple substitution, very similar
to the method of encoding and decoding the hints on Geocache
pages.
After the fall of the Roman Empire, interest in cryptography
dwindled until the Renaissance. In the sixteenth and
seventeenth century the foundations for more advanced
methods were laid down by such innovators as Trithemius, Porta,
Vigenère, Cardan and Rossignol.
In the 1830's, Samuel B. Morse was working his "code" which was
really a cipher. In 1843 Edgar Allen Poe wrote "the Gold-Bug" in
which he showed how any simple substitution cipher can be
solved by using the frequency of letter occurrence.
This cipher is based on the Vigenère Tableau. I've given you
that much, now you must determine the key word(s) which are
hidden in the above description.
Oh, I made this a little harder by running the whole phrase
together.
tjeosoytkoqsrrhgcdgtciuawraptjfrydrwqzhvaxetossultvwrwqtepoqi,ueutcidmekgkxlcrqoqialerolrfqexeqdqpobeus.
Side Trip: From the location given above, you can head East on
Rick Rd. for 0.7 miles to Hearthside Rest Pet Cemetery and visit
the grave site of Bonzo the Chimp from the 1951 movie "Bedtime for
Bonzo" with Ronald Reagan.
You can check your answers for this puzzle on
Geochecker.com.