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First Kiss Mystery Cache

Hidden : 9/26/2020
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


This is to dedicate one of our many anniversaries, 9/26/2003, how my husband & I started, he kissed me on that day.  He asked a week before that if he could kiss me and I said no.  He didn't ask this time and just did it.  I'm glad he did, we had been a very happy loving couple since.  Great 16+ years.  So this is for Ray, happy anniversary!! Would have been 17th year.

You can say hello to my Ray.  We found our 1st cache 1 month together before he passed.  

To solve this puzzle you will need to go to the posted coordinates at Crown Hill and you need to answer the following questions to get to the final.  Crown Hill locks their gate at 8p.m. during summer time and 6 p.m. in the winter time.  Check the posting online or by the entrance for exact gate close time.


Log must be signed in order to claim a find!! If log is wet or you can't sign it for whatever reason then send me a message of the actual container at the final!  Do not post the photo of the container in the log!!  Logs will be deleted if I can't find your name on the paper log or if u didn't send me a photo as of 10/14/2021!!!

Using Ray's headstone & footstone to figure out the final coords (Final is not inside Crown Hill cemetary, it's less than 0.5 miles away):

Final Cords:       N39 49.ABC
                        W086 10.DEF

A: The total # of letters in the first row under the dates 
B: # of letters in Ray's first name
C: The Day of his birthday
D: The # of letters that spells what that symbol is above the word "Believe"
EF: How old was Ray in 1965?

The original container was a plastic beetle, can't find a "kissing bug" for this dedication so this is the beetle was the closest thing I can come up with.  **As of 1/12/2022, the bug 🪲 was missing, someone cut it off but left the ziptie, so probably not from landscaping ppl  😢.  Couldn't find the bug at any stores so a new theme for the container which goes much better with the title of the cache; this new container was replaced on 1/16/2022.

 

Happy Caching! And thank you for visiting my Ray! 😘 

I left a red pin that says Soy Amada (I am Loved in spanish) for the FTF.
Congratulations to greg_bernath for being FTF!

 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Rireterra! Orfg nccebnpu sebz fbhgu, vg’f crecraqvphyne gb gur jbbq hgvyvgl cbyr. Pnzbhsyntrq fznyy cvyy obggyr jvgu erq yvcf 👄 ba vg 😉

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)