"DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old.
"Some of my little friends say there is no work when Tux logs that his find is "on the way to work"..
"Papa says, 'If you see it on geocaching.com, it's so.'
"Please tell me the truth; does Tux work? "
VIRGINIA O'HANLON.
geo-name tealeaf
Tealeaf, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except what they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Tealeaf, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth, knowledge and Google Earth.
Yes, Tealeaf, there is work for Tux.. It exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no work for Tux It would be as dreary as if there were no Tealeafs. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance and no pocket queries to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight and no FTFs. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished and no one would log DNFs.
Not believe in work for Tux! You might as well not believe in fairies or traditional caches! You might get your papa to hire men to watch all the caches to catch him, but even if they did not see Tux, what would that prove? Nobody sees him work, but that is no sign that there is no work. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see, like lucky charms. Did you ever see fairies dancing in the bosque? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world until they are published on a cache page.
You may tear apart the baby's rattle, see what makes the noise inside and look for the log sheet, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance and accurate coordinates, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Tealeaf, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No work for Tux! Thank God! he works, and his work lives forever. A thousand years from now, Tealeaf, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. The grownups will continue to be vexed by his nanos and puzzles. All on the way to work.
Thanks are due Francis P. Church, Santa Claus and OReviewer for the inspiration
At the listed coordinates, you will get the information that will give you the final coordinates. You are looking for
N 35 10.27A W 106 34.BCD
A=How many colors of paint are on the sign? Double it.
B=The first digit of the area code of the bottom number
C=The first digit of the Santa Fe number.
D=The number of letters in the first word of the company name.
The cache is a little briefcase in a larger host. Keep the host swag-free please, this is one better left just to contain the cache. You will be on the south side of the ditch. Do not park on the north side which is the loading area for Target and under surveillance