Well, of all days for me to sleep in till 11:30AM, (didnt get to bed till 6AM), I had breakfast while checking for new caches & such on the computer. Then, i was just about to make one of my usual morning calls to Paleoman, to discuss this & that, when I was told someone else needed to make a quick call...
So as I was waiting, I thought maybe I ought to check my email, which I usually only do about once a week. It was a very good thing I did, as I had just received a mysterious email from JasperJoe a half-hour before. Contained in the email were coords that looked EXTREMELY familiar...
"Hmmm... this west coord is exactly where my front porch step lies.... And this north coord is only about 150ft from said porch step..." Well, I immediately knew something was hidden right behind my house at the head of the Greenway trail. On the way up the head of the trail, sure enough there were some huge boot tracks...Then, an ammo can tucked under (what was left) of a bush. Hmm...I started searching the skies for the black helicopters to appear, (or at least a large white van), but hence I made my way back to the house with can in hand, managing to avoid the spy sattelites (I had luckily remembered to don my tin-foil pirate hat before heading out.)
Any way, after opening up the can and realising what was inside, and trying to decide how to go about getting this to one of the very few names left on the list, I had to wonder if 2 of the names were even aware of the cache. Well, one thing led to another, and i managed to have a nice phone conversation with a cacher I really look up to, and unfortunately one that I had hadnt seen much of this past year. During the conversation, i asked if they could get ahold of one of the other cachers on the list, and ask them if they wanted to contribute also.
Ok, 2 names off the list there... But I still had to figure out how i could get this to a more local-to-me-cacher....Time seemed to be running out to meet the deadline of the cache, so another call was made to another fellow cacher I have not seen enough of lately, to get a phone number for yet another cacher I knew from when i first started caching back in 2002, but had only actually met once... LOL
After a second great phone conversation, i was given coords to a certain "market/deli" in a nearby town where said cacher was due to possibly eat lunch at every day. So, the next morning i woke, added my Memory and Wish, and off I went to the coords. Sure enough, I see a bear of a cacher come in the door and we got to meet for the 2nd time in over 7 yrs. As lunch was winding down, another caching great comes strolling in and up to our table. Its always great seeing THIS guy, whom i only get to see once a year at the Fall Gathering...
Well, if that wasnt enough, another gentleman comes strolling in and up to our table, and it turns out it was yet ANOTHER up & coming area cacher, who i had only met once or twice previously...How great is THIS?
Well, unfortunately the time came where we all had to go our seperate ways... Hopefully not to have to wait another year or more to see each other.
So Thank You, Santa, for giving me the opportunity to speak with an old friend, and to spend lunch with some great people today as well.
PS- Thanx for taking care of the chili for me, "Bear". 🙂