The cache is NOT at the posted coordinates. You must solve the following puzzle to obtain the correct geocache coordinates. A geochecker is provided below. You're looking for a unique container with room for swag items. You’ll probably need to bring your own pen.
The cache is located at the following coordinates:
North 43 AB.CDE West 88 RS.TUV
We both really like geocaching - it's a great way to spend time together and get a bit of exercise at the same time. We like to cache year-round, regardless of weather. We've also really enjoyed the variety of geocache types, whether it is a traditional cache, multicache, or something else. But it wasn’t always that way.
Like most geocachers we know, our very first geocache find was a TRADITIONAL geocache. That was back on June 8, 2010. It was a simple guardrail cache, but we both recall thinking how awesome it was to be able to find something like that using GPS coordinates. We were hooked. Our first log: “My very first find, very cool! I hope to find lots more and figure out all these links and symbols (I'm a newbie)! Thanks!!”
A week and a half later, we found ourselves vacationing in Washington, and on June 17th we found our first VIRTUAL cache and first earthcache on the same day. We thought about how fun and clever it was to have non-physical types of caches as well. Of course, they were on the ocean coast so we were pretty awestruck. Between physical caches like traditionals and non-physical caches like virtuals and earthcaches, we figured we had a pretty full geocache experience.
Over the ensuing months as we started a daily geocaching streak, we noticed that there was a cache type called a MULTICACHE, which seemed like a bit too much for us. Going from waypoint to waypoint? It seemed like a lot of work. We avoided them. Worse yet, “MYSTERY” caches, which seemed way beyond anything we had encountered before. Dummy coordinates are presented, and you have to solve the puzzle or mystery to get the correct coordinates. We avoided them too. 
But on September 25th of that year with roughly four months of geocaching experience, we were working our way through a fun Peanuts/Charlie Brown geocache series of about 20 caches, and – oh no – we had to do a multicache, “Linus and the Great Pumpkin.” And it was BEYOND AWESOME! Looking back at our log from that cache, it started with “Holy cow! Dr. D I'm running out of superlatives to describe your caches. This goes waaaay beyond clever.” Then, on October 21st, to complete the Peanuts series – a mystery cache: “Peanut Series Mystery Final.” Amazing. We truly had been missing out by avoiding the mystery caches with their iconic blue question marks. We learned that they could be not only fun, but added a whole new level of challenge, complexity, and satisfaction to the game. We were all-in!
During that same month, October 2010, we also started working on another exciting geocache series, Harry Potter, a 42-cache series in Manitowoc. It had a bit of everything, including a new type of cache that we had not yet encountered: a LETTERBOX HYBRID cache. Woah. Now this was really cool. Rather than just go to the given coordinates, one had to also follow a story, or narrative, to be directed to the final location, similar to a classic treasure hunt game. So the letterbox hybrid entitled “Madam Pomfrey” became or very first letterbox hybrid and 168th find, which we found with Mrs. Hack’s aunt, who recently had started caching as well. A convert! Letterbox hybrids have become our favorite geocache type, and we have hidden a number of them over the years. We will go out of our way to find letterbox hybrids.
Okay, so now we’ve found all the main cache types, or have we? By mid-November 2010 we had found almost 200 caches, and had a five-month daily geocaching streak going. But at that point we had experienced geocaching mostly by ourselves (sometimes with Mrs. Hack’s aunt). We really liked it, but we didn’t really know any other geocachers, and that was okay. That all changed November 13, 2010 when Mrs. Hack1of2 and her aunt attended their very first geocaching EVENT. A whole gaggle of geocachers who liked geocaching, just like us! That was followed by another event by the two of us two weeks later, and then another two weeks after that. Through these events we met other people who shared our common love of the outdoors and geocaching. We learned a lot, and we made many dear friends who we cannot imagine what life would be like now without them.
It was a year later on 11/21/2011 that we encountered another type of geocache that was new to us – a WEBCAM cache. Since there isn’t a physical cache to find, it is similar to a virtual cache, but with a twist: you have to capture your image online on the webcam at the designated coordinates. There are relatively few webcam caches in existence, with only three located in Wisconsin, all within 25 miles of here.
On April 23, 2012, we attended what is possibly our 2nd favorite type of cache – a CITO EVENT. Cache-In Trash-Out (CITO) events are different than regular events in that participants work together to improve parks and other outdoor environments. They clean up litter, plant trees, remove invasive species, build trails, and more. It was great teaming up for several hours with so many others for our 2,630th find to improve our green spaces. Since then we have participated in 20 or more CITOs and have co-hosted a bunch of them, mostly with our friends TeamJanine&Jon.
We found our very first PROJECT A.P.E. cache earlier this year, 10 years after we started geocaching. A.P.E. geocaches were placed almost 20 years earlier in conjunction with 20th Century Fox to promote the movie Planet of the Apes. Only two of the original 14 A.P.E. caches still exist today, one in Brazil and one in Washington. We were thrilled to make the four mile walk with our friends Mr. & Mrs. Lacknothing to make the find on August 15, 2020.
We’ve come to appreciate over the years that there is so much more to geocaching than just finding traditional caches at a set of given coordinates. But traditional caches are how geocaching started, and they’re certainly rewarding to find! It’s fun to look back at our first logs from each cache type. Why not check them out, you may find them enlightening! 
Placed with permission, Milwaukee County Parks permit #655.
This geocache placed by a member of the
