Between dissimilar landmarks Mystery Cache
Between dissimilar landmarks
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Difficulty:
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Terrain:
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Size: 
(small)
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The cache is not at the posted
coordinates, but it is within a few miles. The cache box
is a decon container hidden in a typical manner, but not typical
for me. Please be sure to close it fully.
Kablooey has complained I sometimes use clues in my puzzles, so I
thought I would try to create one I consider to be using clues. The
following is entirely true and may give you some insight about me.
During my childhood unlike everyone I knew, my family didn't have a
mailbox at our house. We'd make nearly daily trips to the local
post office. P.O. Box 835 Saratoga, was my address for years. This
was a real problem especially with schools, libraries, DMV, and
other places that insisted on knowing where I lived. The reason
this was a problem is that I would have to give them the location
of the house I lived in, but I would also give them my box number;
the address where letters were to be sent. At an age younger than
my kids I had to take responsibility to always remind people, of my
box number, because I wouldn't receive letters sent anywhere else.
In those days the information was all in paper files that rarely
had the forethought to allow for two addresses. Even if the
paperwork had a location for two addresses they frequently were not
used correctly, or were ignored. Over the years many people have
had trouble using my box number, and sent letters into that void
and never found me. I learned early on that I needed to focus and
remind people where to send me letters or I would be the one,
missing out on things. These experiences taught me about rampant
bureaucratic incompetence at an early age. This is no longer my
address location. That Post Office in Saratoga was closed, and was
converted into a Sheriff substation. They built a new Post Office
on top of what had been the baseball fields of my Jr. High. For a
time as an adult in another city I even had a P.O. Box ending in
the same number. I no longer have any of these box numbers and
don't reside in either of these cities, but to me it will always be
my box address. I forgot to put a pencil in the cache which, I will
hopefully fix eventually. I’d preferred to have made this a regular
cache, but I think if it were a traditional, or larger that it
would be muggled, but maybe I'm just being conservative. 5/1/09 I
added a pencil to this box, and increased the difficulties a
little.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Gur qhzzl pbbeqvangrf ner arne n Cbfg Bssvpr jurer jr fpberq na SGS ba gur qnl gurl qba'g qryvire yrggref.
Ab iveghny vil urer, gur bayl ahzoref gb or sbhaq ner boivbhf.
Tvira gur ynfg fragrapr, gurer ner ab pbbeqvangrf ba guvf cntr. Jura lbh svaq gur pbbeqvangrf, lbh fubhyq or noyr gb gryy gung lbh yvxryl unir gur evtug frg.
Gur gvgyr "Orgjrra qvffvzvyne ynaqznexf" unf abguvat gb qb jvgu gur fgbel be gur chmmyr, fb jul jbhyq V hfr vg, naq jung pbhyq vg zrna?
Gvgyr vf n uvqr ybpngvba uvag, naq gur ynaqznexf pragre gb pragre ner jvguva gra srrg bs rnpu bgure.
Ybpngvba uvag: Orgjrra cbfg naq ebpx.