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Der General Traditional Cache

Hidden : 3/28/2013
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


About a year and a half ago, we hosted our son's friend Sem, who was visiting from Germany.  I asked him if he'd be interested in accompanying me on a 2-day geocaching road trip to SW Missouri and eastern Kansas, and he readily agreed. 

As we passed through the small towns in the region, we frequently encountered locations of a common regional small-town variety store chain.  Each time we would see one, Sem would say with a laugh, "Ah, der General!"  (Phonetic spelling of the German pronunciation would be something like "Ah, dair Ghen-er-RAHL!"  Be sure to pronounce the "Gh" as a hard "G", as in goat.) 

Now Sem speaks very good English (he was an exchange student in Washington state for a year), but I never did quite grasp the humor in the name of this chain of stores.  Nevertheless, I still can't pass one by without thinking to myself:  "Ah, der General!"

Permission for placement of this cache has been granted by the store manager.

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