GS02: The Way Station II Traditional Cache
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The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. While on the run, he flipped over into our world looking for a burger, and hid a bison tube somewhere in this general area. And then the entire signpost which hid the cache disappeared. Roland returned and hid another bison tube in a new spot. This is a new cache. BYOP.
The pancake house used to be a Coco’s, with a Reuben’s right next door. Both were Far West Services restaurants and served as modern-day way stations, providing food for the hungry and weary. I worked at Coco’s while in high school and college. It was fun work with good people and good food. Coco’s closed many years ago and was replaced with the IHOP. Reuben’s was torn down and a Carls Jr took its spot. The world moved on.
Offered here, for a pretty, is the second of a five-cache homage to my favorite Stephen King book, The Gunslinger, the first of seven books in the Dark Tower series.
Inspired by the spaghetti westerns of the early 1970s, and a poem written by Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,” The Gunslinger was originally published in five parts in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. It tells the story of Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger in a world where time has moved on, and of his chase of the man in black across a desert. Each cache bears the title of one of the five parts.
As Roland travels through the vast desert, through the town of Tull, over peaks and under mountains, he meets many people along the way, including a boy name Jake Chambers. Many of these people die as Roland’s ultimate goal is the Dark Tower, the nexus of all universes, and nothing will stop him from reaching it. The mysterious icon’s power is failing, threatening everything in existence. And Roland is somehow the salvation needed to set things back in order.
I hope you enjoy this series of caches. If you haven’t read any of the books in the Dark Tower series, give The Gunslinger a try and let me know how you liked it.
Go then, there are other caches than this.
This is a new cache replacing the original Way Station. The signpost that held the original cache was removed, so this new cache was born.
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