Bedouin Prayer Box Mystery Cache
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200 yards of walking and a brief puzzle are required. The puzzle component is fairly trivial and can be performed using GPS coordinates. Only the last few feet are not on asphalt paths or streets. Traffic is slow, but be aware while crossing streets and minimize muggles spotting you. This cache has been discussed with a homeowners assoc. leader and neighbors, but still be very discreet. Finding this cache shouldn't take you out of the boundaries of the neighborhood. Have fun!
If you have never heard of them, the Bedouin people are spread out across the Middle East and are simple people, mostly living in tents and shepherding flocks across the deserts of Africa and Asia. Most are nomadic and are the poorest of the poor in these areas, surviving hand to mouth with few resources at their disposal.
Park at the corner of Dunwoody Boulevard and Swathmore Court. The Swathmore court side will have less traffic, being a dead end road. Walk over the the stop sign which is near this intersection and look East all the way down Swathmore Court at the house with the whitish roof. Let A= How many blue individual shutters there are on the front of the house. Let B= A divided by 10. (It should be a whole number). Let C= A divided by 5. (It should be a whole number also).
Your first destination is to go to the following coordinates where B and C stand for the numbers you just found:
N 35°.53.66B'
W 08C°.01.8C0'
NOTE: You need not enter private property to get to this location, just use the sidewalks and streets.
Assuming you have now walked to the right place, you can have a seat in the shade on a flat stone, but sit so that you can face Northshore Drive. If you are sitting facing the right direction, you should see through the crape myrtle in front two red signs (one wasn't enough for this neighborhood :). While you're resting there, look in front of you at the trees straight ahead. Let D= the number of trees that are all in line in the middle island behind the neighborhood sign. Let E= D divided by 2.
The final cache location is not far away! Note: if your coordinates are correct and your GPS accurate, you should not leave the boundaries of the neighborhood at all although you may come close. The last 30 feet will require you to leave the sidewalk however and the final cache location is in a more private location so onlookers can't see you.
N 35°.5E.D9E
W 084°.01.8D2
Please put the cache back in exactly the same place you found it and cover it back over with sticks and leaves.
As affirmation, if you add A+B+C+D+E together, you will get a two digit number. If you add the two digits together, the sum is "eight."
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
jurer fgbarf qrsl tenivgl n fznyy cynfgvp obk yvrf