“INDIANA SPIRIT
QUEST”
The Indiana Spirit Quest series of
geocaches will take you to a number of historic cemeteries
built by Hoosier Pioneers. In just over a year, the quest has grown
to over a hundred fifty caches hidden in eighteen Indiana counties,
and the hiders have grown to five cacher teams, four of which are
comprised of A Man and His Dog... PRAIRIEPARTNERS has set a record for one-day ISQ finds on
10-16-2004 at 55! 180 cacher teams have logged over 1,960
finds.
Pioneer Cemetery (Photo by LEAD DOG)
INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST
#156
”LET'S HAVE A PICNIC"
Welcome to Sidney Cemetery, up on the
hill. You are in Jackson Twp., Koskiusko County. Set a spell on the
picnic table, but don't think you're going to haul it away with you
unless you brought boltcutters...Close your eyes and feel the hot
tropical sun on your face, the gentle breeze of the trade winds,
and the smell of the cocoanut palms...WAKE UP! You're in INDIANA
and it's cold out here! We suspect there are a number of (now)
unmarked graves in this place based on the layout. While we were
here, the high-tension lines were crackling pretty loud. That's
what they do when there are UFO's around, so we didn't tarry long.
We don't mind visits to the Mother Ship, but those examinations can
be brutal. (There is no more room in Patrick's skull for any
more alien implants--our local vet took a couple out of him through
his dog ears and sent them to the government (dumb!). He did an
X-ray of Patrick's head and said it was filled mostly with fluid
and cartiledge. He said his actual brain, when he found it, was
shrunken to the size of a pea. HE said it was big enuff to control
things like breathing, and heartbeat and digestion, but he couldn't
see how it was big enuff to control much of anything else, like
coordinating four legs to walk, or interpreting vision. Anyway he
sent the pics to the Vet School at Purdue, and they called and
wanted to do an autopsy on him. I told them he wasn't DEAD yet, and
they said it didn't matter--with such a small brain he wouldn't
feel a thing. They're ghouls. I'm sure not going to let them cut up
my little buddy--At least not unless they pony up a whole lot more
money than they were offering. Anyway, it sure does explain why
he's so STOOPID! ...)Luckily for us the truck started and we
were able to beat a hasty retreat!
Sidney, Indiana (Pop.168) is located on
the Rail Road and is located about 6.2 miles from South Whitley.
The elevation is 976 ft. above mean sea level, the average
household size is 2.71 people and .19 dogs and the population is
98% Caucasion and 1% Hawaiian (I'm not making this
up--otherwise how would I possibly know how to spell
"Hawaiian"--It's not like you can look THAT up in your
dictionary...)
A luau (Hawaiian lu'au) is a traditional
Hawaiian feast that normally features foods such as poi, kalua pig
(pork prepared in an imu, or earth oven), poke, and lomi salmon,
among others. Hawaii residents often hold luaus to celebrate
special occasions, such as a child's first birthday. Commercial
operations in Hawaii also specialize in luaus that cater to
visitors to the Islands.
Among the Hawaiian people, it was the
custom to celebrate auspicious occasions with a feast. Called the
aha'aina, the feast had spiritual significance; it was thought that
they were sharing a meal with the gods. In ancient times, men and
women could not eat together, and certain foods such as pork,
bananas, and coconut were forbidden to women. In 1819, King
Kamehameha II abolished the kapu (taboo) system by partaking in a
feast with women, thus severing the spiritual connection of the
aha'aina.
The term lu'au began to be used in the
mid-1800s to refer to what was the aha'aina. It took its present
name from a dish made from young taro leaves and meat or seafood,
baked in coconut milk.
THE SHEPHERD
The cache container is a
small plastic thing that used to contain photographic film.
Upgraded to a peanut butter jar, March '06. BYOP. Park with
care.If you find a fallen US flag, please stick it back in the
ground. As always, please be respectful, and cache in, trash
out.
DON'T BE FOOLED BY UNSATISFACTORY IMITATIONS!!
None genuine without this official SixDogTeam seal. 35mm
photographs taken by Lead Dog, copyright 2005 by RikSu Outfitters
unless otherwise noted. (Photos taken with 1970 Mamiya-Sekor 500DTL
SLR) We are the SixDogTeam and we approve of this cache.
CACHING AFTER DUSK IS NOT ALLOWED ON ISQ's
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Answer: It makes him bark!