"Propinquitous".
Yeah, riiiight.
It's not often that I hear a word I don't know. But, today, I was out trying for the FTF at CaptMalcolm & InaraSerra's new puzzle cache, "Cardinal Directions". Some guy in a blue shirt was watching me from across the street...the whole time...playing with his cell phone, probably videotaping me for America's Funniest Geocaching Videos or some such new show on TGC (The Geocaching Channel). I smiled and nodded at the man a couple of times and I was pretty sure it was CaptMalcolm himself, since anyone else would be trying to find the durn thing as well, but I'd only met the man once, two years ago, and didn't recognize him from afar. After I finally figured out the puzzle and made the find, he gave me the silent applause and, after we met up, we chatted for a while and he told me of how, in part, his "Cardinal Directions" cache had been designed because of an interesting propinquity (though he didn't use the word at the time).
So, hours later, he posts a "Write Note" on the cache page that, in part, reads as follows: "Stopped by on the way home from work to take a file pic; my arrival was propinquitous to watching JeffGamer try to puzzle out the find....." I'd never heard the word "propinquitous" before, so I decided to look it up:
PROPINQUITOUS: (1) Nearness of blood, of kinship. (2) Near in place or time, near in proximity.
Looking at the word and the meaning, I wondered if I could turn the word itself into a similarly-propinquitous geocache. Had a brainstorm for a puzzle idea, tried it out and, WHAM, the tried-out coordinates led to a spot I have thought, many times, could house a geocache. Propinquity and fortuitousness united! This puzzle truly WAS "propinquitous"!! So this cache could be considered a CaptMalcolm tribute cache (or a belated wedding present?).
The coordinates will lead to 25 39. _ _ _ and 80 23. _ _ _. You will need to figure out the six missing digits.
NOTES: You are seeking a black bison tube. Additional Hints are in both the "Additional Hints" section AND in the "Attributes". You can check your answers for this puzzle at http://www.geochecker.com/index.php?code=cb05d8bb10806df81f33578c074eea7b&action=check&wp=47433345454b52&name=50726f70696e717569746f7573.
Cache on!