When you start to cache is different areas, you start to notice the same names. There were names I knew from Long Island caching and there were names I knew from Manhattan caching. Then one day I noticed a Long Island name started to appear in Manhattan. It stood out because of the name.. New Market Mallers.
I figured this person, whoever it was lived close to where I lived and worked close to where I worked. Both turned out to be the case. I was going to reach out when, by chance, at a new cache along the Bethpage Bike Path called "Friends", This guy in Dallas Cowboy garb walks up to me. It's New Market Mallers. After talking and finding the cache, along with the other new one that day, we found out we do, in fact, live and work pretty close to each other. Since then we have teamed up for some new caches and have been on and off puzzle solving partners. There hasn't been too much of that lately as my office moved out of Manhattan, but we still do meet up from time to time.
I wanted to get this cache out for his 1,000th, but work and other things conspired against me and this actually works out to possibly be his 1,100 milestone cache.
Good job, Eric!
Please let Eric grab the FTF!