Johnny Reb Traditional Cache
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As a geocacher, I have been to many cemeteries. I have been to large cemeteries, small cemeteries, single plot cemeteries, pet cemeteries, Indian cemeteries, and on and on. I have learned how to scan the scene for that which should stand out. Sometimes it is a unique plot, sometimes a small stone, sometimes a broken obelisk, sometimes a faded marker. In this cemetery, what stood out to me was the headstone of Johnny Reb. Here he went by the name of Joshua Cates. The headstone is located north of the cache location and is worth a look.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. “A funny thing happened to me on the way to plant a cache…” Well, a funny thing did happen to me. I was driving south from the land of Byonke, Debra Jean, and Lou when I decided to investigate a high potential plant site. The site had too much barbed wire for my personal taste so on I went. Taking the long backroads way, I noticed a cemetery. Not just any cemetery, but the type of cemetery that looked like it might have some serious character. So the u-turn brought me back around to investigate.
I did some reading and scanned a few headstones and determined the best place for a cache would be in a crack in the rock wall at the southwest corner of the cemetery. I get there and notice there are a couple pieces of trash there. One is a discarded chewing tobacco can and the other appears to be a metal canister that once held mints, perhaps. I thought, maybe I can recycle these into cache containers.
Here comes the funny. I twist the cap off of the tobacco can and what do I find inside? A small sheet of paper with the signature of none other than larry739. I then look at the other canister and see that there is writing on the outside that said, “Geocache. Please Do Not Move. Geocaching.com.” The metal canister was of course rusted shut, sealing the original log inside. Larry must have come along, had mercy on the cache, and placed a replacement container to try to help out the cache owner.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. So, how do you know you have found a good place for a cache? When two cache containers are already on site.
But, the truth is there was no listed cache on site. Apparently the cache on this site had been archived some time ago. So, I pulled out an experimental container and placed it in a bit of a different spot than the original. I waypoint averaged, built a cache page, and submitted.
And that, my friend, is the story of GC391FK, Johnny Reb the cache.
Please only go after this cache during daylight hours. Please make sure there is natural camouflage completely covering the container when you leave, regardless of how careful or careless the previous finder was.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Rawbl gur jnyy, ohg gur pnpur vf abg gurer. Purpx va gur fghzcl nern. Fubhyq or haqre pbire gurer.