Can you draw a rectangle?
A Kansas Heartland Geocache
My son was a tiny lad, just learning to draw. "Can you draw a circle?" He would get the marker and draw a squiggly circle on the white marker board. "Good! Now can you draw a triangle?" He drew a figure with three squiggles for sides. "Good! Can you draw a rectangle?" Then he showed me how to draw a rectangle.
He drew the rectangle with another squiggly curve going over the top. He started drawing circles under the rectangle. He started drawing all kinds of lines going all over the board. He was going at it for quite some time until he finally finished and presented his work of art to me. The original rectangle was now a coal car for an old locomotive choo-choo train. He showed me the coal in the coal car, the wheels on the bottom, the train tracks, the train engine with the big smoke stack on the top of the engine (he couldn't pronounce his Esses so he said "Hmoke Htack"), the triangle cow-catcher swoop thing on the front, and the "den-a-len" (which was the bell beside the smoke stack, because it made the sounds den-a-len, den-a-len, den-a-len as the train went by). I had never seen him draw anything more than squiggly shapes and big scribbles on the white board. This was the first time I had seen him draw anything more elaborate than a simple rectangle, and he just blew it away with the details. Forget the rectangle; that's too easy now.
To find the geocache, solve this puzzle.
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You are looking for a black ammo box with a cantuland-geocache-logo painted on the sides. Original contents include a Guide to Geocaching, a Sacagawea gold dollar coin, a Kansas quarter, a Lewis-and-Clark edition nickel, one of those new-Lincoln-image-on-the-back pennies, an old wheat penny, and lots of other miscellaneous trade items.
Congratulations to both frog4peace and crossmage for being First To Find!
See waypoint GCQ27X for the next Heartland Geocache.
REMEMBER:
- Make the fair trade.
- Log your visit.
- Leave the site better than you found it.
- Protect the environment — always.
- Educate those around you.
- Find another cache!
Good luck, and may all your cache dreams come true.
—cantuland
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