After our last geocaching adventure, the owner of the cache
we never found,
Beachbumx2, read my blog and found the fact that we drove in
circles for hours as funny as we did.
She knows the trails we were on well and it wasn’t long
before she sent me a message on FaceBook telling me that our driving in circles
had inspired her and she’s placed a new cache out in the middle of where we
were lost.
She filled the ammo can with things to help get unlost and
things to do while lost and then wrote You Are Here on top of the cache.
Her son,
Lil Bum, has put out a series of caches called Hey
Cacher, You Lost? and this is the newest addition.
Hey Cacher, You Lost? Driving for Hours in Circles
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She even included the breadcrumb trail picture showing our
hours of driving in circles.
I knew immediately that was the cache I wanted to find as my
900th cache but life got in the way and it wasn’t until last night
that the Island King and I got out there.
It was dark and raining and while he wasn’t pleased he was
happily humoring me.
But…
I still needed to grab 3 other caches first in order for
Driving in Circles to be my 900th find.
We picked up a quick grab-n-go before heading into the
woods. One down, two to go.
I’d picked two easy caches for us to grab that were very
close to the new cache so into the woods we went.
Funny how everything looked familiar.
We got to the next cache, which is at an intersection of two
small roads, signed the log and were back in the truck in minutes.
The next one on the list is off a small trail we’d been on
before so we had no trouble getting to where we needed to be, parked and made
the short trek into the woods.
I spotted the cache pretty quick, signed the log and then
both of us hurried back to the truck to get out of the rain.
Well, we thought we were hurrying back to the truck.
The cache was only about 100 feet from where we’d parked the
truck but after hiking along for a while both of us agreed that we should have
reached the road by now.
We’re shining our flashlights through the woods, hoping to
spot a glint off the truck but all we see is rain and more woods.
Hmm.
This is the second time I’ve followed my husband around in
circles in less than a week.
I’m really beginning to doubt his navigational ability.
We finally stumble onto the trail we know the truck is on
but we’ve been walking in circles for a while now and aren’t sure which
direction the truck could be.
Both of us said “This way” at the same time and of course we
were pointing in opposite directions.
I realize that I have spent at least ¼ of my life lost (it
took me three hours to get home from a grocery store that was 10 minutes from
my apartment in Miami) but I also realize that I’ve been following the Island
King around in circles for long enough and I think the truck is this way so off
I go.
He decides to follow me and after a while we rounded a bend
and there it sat.
Good grief. That was supposed to be a quick find.
We were quickly running out of time but I was determined to
grab that final cache so off we went.
We drove straight to the right spot and then followed the
GPS directly to the cache.
Unbelievable!
We found a Hey Cacher, You Lost? cache in no time flat but
wandered around looking for our truck for a LONG time at a previous cache –
which is also owned by
Beachbumx2 and Lil Bum.
A look at our breadcrumb trail brought another good belly
laugh when we got home.
The yellow line is what it looks like when you lose your truck.
We just found a small cache in the middle of the woods but
we can’t find a truck on a trail?
I don’t mind being lost – in fact I’ve come to enjoy it and
almost every lost event leads to an adventure. But I’m going to spray
reflective paint all over the truck tomorrow.
I don’t mind not finding a cache but not finding the truck
is never good.
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