DON'T PANIC: #14 - Mostly Harmless
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The fourteenth in a series of caches dedicated to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.
"If you're a researcher on this book thing and you were on Earth, you must have been gathering material on it."
"Well, I was able to extend the original entry a bit, yes."
"Let me see what it says in this edition then, I've got to see it."
"Yeah, okay." He passed it over again.
Arthur grabbed hold of it and tried to stop his hands shaking. He pressed the entry for the relevant page. The screen flashed and swirled and resolved into a page of print. Arthur stared at it.
"It doesn't have an entry!" he burst out.
Ford looked over his shoulder.
"Yes, it does," he said, "down there, see at the bottom of the screen, just above Eccentrica Gallumbits, the triple breasted whore of Eroticon 6."
Arthur followed Ford's finger, and saw where it was pointing. For a moment it still didn't register, then his mind nearly blew up.
"What? Harmless? Is that all it's got to say? Harmless! One word!"
Ford shrugged.
"Well there are a hundred billion stars in the Galaxy, and only a limited amount of space in the book's microprocessors," he said, "and no one knew much about the Earth, of course."
"Well, for God's sake, I hope you managed to rectify that a bit."
"Oh yes, well, I managed to transmit a new entry off to the editor. He had to trim it a bit, but it's still an improvement."
"And what does it say now?" asked Arthur.
"Mostly harmless," admitted Ford with a slightly embarrassed cough.
-- Douglas Adams from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
This cache is located just outside the Edness K. Wilkins State Park. The park is a wonderfully developed bird sactuary with plenty of spaces for families to picnic for the day and a plethora of trails for wildlife enthusiasts to wander along. There is a $2 fee per vehicle for Wyoming residents and $4 fee for non-residents, but you can park at the turnout along side the Oregon Trail monument just outside the toll booth to get to the cache.
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