Goodbye old friend Traditional Cache
sundevil1994: Sorry my bad on this. I should have archived it long ago.
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I am surprised no one has placed a cache here yet.
If you're not interested in the boring story about the title you can just ignore it and start hunting. The coordinates are accurate.
On to the name:
In 2008 I visited central Europe on a mission to geocache in 4 former communist countries. Unfortunately when we got to Bratislava Slovakia my old GPSr died and I was forced to go to Tesco and get a new one.
9700 Slovak krouna (~$330 US) later a Garmin GPSmap 60CSx pre-loaded with the European maps pack became my new rig. (Side note: That was all fine and dandy until I realized when I got home that North America was not loaded and all of the instructions were in Slovak.)
After a tumble into Jamaica's Dunn's River Falls earlier this year it has been showing signs of its age and occasionally acts a little quirky. I had known that it would be just a matter of time before it passed away.
I built the camo for this container, put new batteries into my GPSr and headed out to place this cache. When I got to GZ though my buddy wouldn't turn on. I tried everything I could and in a move of desperation I used my pen and pushed on the button. My pen pushed right through the protective rubber barrier for the on switch. Right then and there I knew it was toast.
Angry with myself, I wait in a moment of silence to say goodbye to my old friend before I turn the GPS feature on my EVO 3D to find the coordinates. I felt as if I lost a part of my family. The drive home was sad and I just couldn't even bare to think about what I would do now for my Geocaching and Waymarking needs.
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UPDATED: Since placing this cache and finishing the description my friend has decided it isn't done yet and has come back on. I went back to the site and confirmed the coordinates with it.
Perhaps it is not ready to say goodbye to me yet so I won't say goodbye to it either.
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Congratulations to AZTech for the FTF!
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