Well you all are pretty familiar with Bubba. You’ve helped
him on his farm at several events; harvesting his crops, rounding
up his animals and taking them all to market. Well, he needs your
help again. He is in dire need of a tractor, but he doesn’t
have the scratch for a new one. These are lean times you know. The
farm could make a whole lot more money if he had one. He could
actually marry his sweetie – Big Mama if he could just
find’em one for not a lot dough. And like a bolt of lightning
it hit him! Or… he could find the ones his Gramps “Ole
Búandi” hid years ago.
One night while watching one of his 3 favorite movies - National
Treasure, The Shawshank Redemption and Fried Green Tomatoes…
something sparked a memory from his past. He loves these movies
because their significant themes that have a definite similarity to
geocaching. National Treasure – like a bunch of puzzle caches
that lead to final bonus cache; The Shawshank Redemption – is
like an offset multi-cache; Fried Green Tomatoes - It was filmed
here in Georgia and is a Virtual cache, plus the complex and
complicated relationship between 2 sets of women is a very
intriguing cinematic errrr uuhhhh - mainly because of the
geocaching aspect. Big Mama likes the movie OK! Don’t Judge.
Aaaaaaanyway… He was watching National Treasure like he used
to do with his Bestefar. It was his favorite movie too. Bubba began
remembering that when he was a youngin’ he and his Bestefar -
Ole Búandi spent a lot of time together geocaching and the like.
They were very close. They would go on geocaching adventures
together. The more difficult and challenging, the more rewarding it
was and the more fun they had. What you need to know about Ole is
he loved 3 things besides his family and the farm –
Geocaching, Puzzles and Tractors. He could never pass a tractor up.
He would buy it up, take it home and then it would disappear. For
many years, no one ever mentioned them, until one day Bubba asked
him where they went to, the response was “I’m
savin’ them for lean times! “ “Where are you
saving them Bestefar?” “I’m not going to tell you
where they are, you will have to find them. You will have to look
within yourself to remember the skills that you learned from all of
the times we spent together and the adventures that we shared. When
the times are lean you will be ready for your tractor to be
crunked!” “Huuuuh?” “Bubba, one day you
will start at the beginning and find a clue that will lead you to
the next clue and so on. Come find me when you are ready.”
“OK,Bestefar.” And he hadn’t thought about that
day … till today. But Bubba wasn’t sure where to start
his search... You see Ole died some years ago. So he started by
going through his grandfather’s belongings that were stored
in the barn to see if he could find any clues but all he found was
3 books – the Farmer’s Almanac, Geocaching for Dummies
and his (Grootmoeder Hendrika's) bible; a copy of the family tree;
a miner’ pan; a compass; a free mason’s ring; and a
buffalo nickel. Just when he had almost lost all hope, he saw it.
Something was just barely sticking out of one of the books. It was
the corner of an envelope. An envelope that was addressed to Bubba!
A clue! It was a note that said “Keep your eyes open for the
Keys! The tractors won’t be hard for you to find… But
the keys are. And you can’t Crunk Yo Tractor without a
Key!” Bubba dug through Ole’s stuff again but there
weren’t any keys. So he decided to start looking for the
tractors and hope he would come across a key along the way. The
search started on the intarweb to see if there were anymore clues
buried in his Bestefar’s Log entries or if he could back
track his travels… Nope. Nothing in the logs. Then it hit
him, “Come find me when you are ready.” So Bubba and
Big Mama went to Ole’s grave and there on the headstone was
some numbers. To the untrained eye, it just looked like
numbers… But what Bubba saw was Coordinates and his
Grandfather’s epitaph… “This is only the
Beginning! So go Crunk Yo Tractor!”
And that’s when Big Mama said “Well, I guess you
have your beginning now. So I suggest you see where that takes
you...”
Warning: Know that all the stages of the “Crunk Yo
Tractor” challenge can not be completed in a day. You may be
able to do more than one of them, but not all. This is not a
statement to instigate anyone into trying. It is just a fair
warning. Just enjoy each stage, make sure you get all the info out
of each cache pay close attention to all the info given to you for
any clues and especially Keep your eyes open for the
“KEY”.
There will be tests along the way. The answers can only be found
at/in/around the caches. Anyone that circumvents the stages will be
found out. Cheating will not be tolerated. The journey to the final
is not supposed to be easy. You must EARN these braggin’
rights.