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A Series of Unfortunate Caches
Kilroy Boy is up to his tricks again. The cache is a 8 oz.
Plastic jar containing a log book, stash note. Please bring a pen
or pencil. For those visiting without children, off hours present
the best opportunity for unimpeded hunting.
With respect to Lemony Snicket:
Dear Geocacher,
A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less
Traveled," describing a journey he took through the woods along a
path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less
traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and he was probably a bit
nervous as he went along, because if anything happened on the road
less traveled, the other travelers would be on the road more
frequently traveled and so couldn't hear him as he cried for help.
Sure enough, that poet is now dead.
Like a dead poet, this cache can be said to be on the road less
traveled, because it begins with the three Baudelaire children on a
path leading through the Berkeley Hills, which is not a popular
destination for travelers, and it ends in the churning waters of
the Stricken Stream, which few travelers even go near. But this
cache is also on the road less traveled, because unlike caches most
people prefer, which provide comforting and entertaining logs about
charming people and talking animals, the tale you are reading now
is nothing but distressing and unnerving, and the people
unfortunate enough to be in the logs are far more desperate and
frantic than charming, and I would prefer to not speak about the
animals at all. For that reason, I can no more suggest the reading
of these woeful logs than I can recommend wandering around the
woods by yourself, because like the road less traveled, this cache
is likely to make you feel lonely, miserable, and in need of
help.
With all due respect,
Kilroy Boy
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