This cache is for the weary traveler who is just trying to reach their destination. The items are travel related, a luggage tag and belt loop key ring. Little dinosaurs to keep the kids busy for a few minutes. Please take time out from your journey to stretch your legs, grab a snack or a drink and always drive safely. From time to time I will be adding usb drives with public domain old time radio programs that you can listen to while on your journey.
When I was just youngster knee high to a grasshopper, we would take trips all over this great country of ours. I remember rushing home from the bus stop to help my mom pack up the car for the long journey into the night. After the car was packed and we kids collected, we would pick my Dad up from work and the journey would begin. This is how every trip out of town would start and go long into the night.
Now remember when I was a pup there was no internet, cell phones or satellite radio. We had FM radio which would disappear once you were out of the city limits and AM radio which you could listen to almost forever. We would drive into the night, my dad and I, while the rest of family would be snoring the night away. I would love to look into the dark of night and gaze at the stars while reading the billboards as they flashed by back into the darkness. Describing those far off places like "See Rock City" or "Visit the Lost Sea" or some hotel we would never see. At 11 P.M. the crackling of the radio static would blare over the speakers scanning the invisible air waves for our special program. CBS Radio Mystery Theater would be played from coast to coast at this time which we would never miss. I would follow the story along in my minds eye whilst moving further and further away from the window for fear of the monster or killer in the story would magically appear at the car window. Yanking on the door handle attempting to snatch me away to some far off place into the deep dark night.
These programs helped my dad stay awake during the night also though I doubt he was afraid of the boogeyman appearing at the car window. Or least he would never admit it to me. To this day I relive those memories every time we start out for vacation in exactly the same we did when I was a child. Except with the advantage of the internet and memory sticks, I can now listen to those programs long into the night and day. They keep me mentally alert ready for the long haul. Though now the family takes turns with the driving, we are now under the spell with the magic of old time radio in the modern era.