Waving Hello on the highway Traditional Cache

"When was the first time you two met each other?"

I used to think that it was the day when a mutual friend of ours asked me if I wanted to meet her. "Sure!" So we stopped by where she worked and I got to introduce myself to her. She was not happy with our mutual friend because she didn't have any warning that we were coming and hadn't "done her hair" or put on any make-up or any of that nonsense that women do to impress a guy. That didn't matter to me; I was very, very, very...very impressed. After that day life was awesome. We dated. We got married.

Then one day, after being married for a while, we were talking and she was reminiscing about years gone by. She said she used to drive to work in her mom's LTD. That phrase echoed in my head, driving to work in her mom's LTD. Now where did I hear that before, driving to work in her mom's LTD? YES! Now I remember! Wow! That's amazing!

I asked my wife if she remembered a certain incident that happened a long time ago. One evening I was being driven back into Wichita on U.S. 81 Highway, also known as South Broadway for those familiar with the Wichita area. The driver was closing in on another car in front of us and recognized that car. "Hey! That's my friend. She's driving to work in her mom's LTD." (That's where I remembered the words.)

I told the driver to pull up beside the car in front of us, like we were going to pass but to hesitate so that we were side-by-side. I didn't know who the driver's friend was, but I was going to tease her anyway, since this was a friend of the driver. The driver said that this was a new car and that she might not recognize the car.

We pulled up beside the LTD and I watched to see what her reaction was going to be. She looked over with a face like, "What is wrong with this car beside me?" She didn't recognize the driver. Probably because the first thing she saw when she looked over was me. I waved at her with my smiley face up close to the window. Caught by surprise, she smiled and turned away to look at the road in front of her. We stayed there beside her car. After a few seconds she looked again. I was still watching so I waved to her again. I saw that she laughed and again turned to look straight ahead. This time she put up a hand beside her face as if to show that she wasn't going to look anymore...but she did. So I waved again! She was laughing but she stopped looking at me. She just wouldn't look over anymore. Now what? I told the driver to pull up some. We pulled ahead so that our car was barely ahead of hers. We were still in the lane of oncoming traffic but there wasn't any traffic coming. I rolled my window down, unbuckled my seat belt, and climbed halfway out of the window so that my waistline was resting on the car door. Going down the highway, the wind was blowing pretty good. I looked back at her and waved real big. She couldn't ignore me anymore now. Ha! She was laughing. Then we finally had to get out of the oncoming lane and finish passing. We drove off and headed out into the darkness.

Yes, my wife definitely remembered that night. So after being married for awhile, we found out how that was actually the first time our lives had crossed. And to think, looking back, that this guy sticking out of the window was who she was going to end up marrying. She's so crazy.

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 SilleB for being First To Find!

See waypoint GCQCKH 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