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The trail is flat except for two very small hills, one as you begin, one half-way there. There is a pencil included, but it's always wise to BYOP. We had seen the graveled lot at the base of the little hill; I was stunned, however, to enter the woods and see that hundreds of trees have been cut down. Who knows why? Not I. :-(
Good cache for someone who is not concerned about driving a paved road over train tracks in the woods, let alone walking over them on the road, or parking in an adequate off-road shoulder just north of the tracks (on the east side, as I did).
There is a large inviting field (from which I removed all CITO on my straight path to a very slight hill). To get there, you follow one of many obvious game trails, generally NE. If you are so fortunate as to be there when John roars by, you can whistle and wave in his general direction!
I like caches without obvious geotrails!
This is the first in a series of caches celebrating the work of the Bard, a famous English actor-poet-playwright-plus, who lived from 1564-1616. He is credited with writing 37-38 plays, 154 sonnets, and many other poems. Only his two daughters lived to adulthood; son Hamnet (twin brother to Judith) died at age 11. William Shakespeare produced voluminous tragedies, comedies, histories, and romances (also called tragi-comedies). Shaw called the hero-worship of Shakespeare "bardolatry." Shakespeare was buried two days after his death in the chancel of the Holy Trinity Church; his gravestone cautions against any disturbance of his remains: "Good frend for Jesvs sake forbeare,/ To digg the dvst encloased heare./ Blest be ye man yt spares thes stones,/ And curst be ye man yt moves my bones." [Wikipedia, retrieved 7-5-09].
His first play, Henry VI, Part One, was written when Shakespeare was 25 years old. A performance of his plays is beginning every four hours somewhere in the world! He is credited with creating the compound word "watchdog" (The Tempest). His works contain 13 suicides. He wrote an average of 1.5 plays a year from age 25 through 49, and still carried on an active social and business life. [The Bard of Avon, William Shakespeare, retrieved 7-5-09].
Blest be the cacher who is familiar with the soliloquy from which these cache names are taken!
CONGRATULATIONS tomanoble and blazingpathways for FTF! May you share a long, beautiful, happy life with NO fardels whatsoever!
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