My first stop was Burlington, a few miles east of Greensboro, where there is a
newish Wherigo cache, courtesy of friend Ranger Fox.
Despite the 25ยบ-degree temp, I hoped I might make my way through the
stages without becoming an icicle. But after fifteen minutes, I still had a
pretty good way to go, and even though I was reasonably bundled up, the chill
and the brisk breeze convinced me that trying again at a later (warmer) time
might be more prudent.
However, stopping here offered me yet another chance to experience the
single-most inevitable geocaching experience of geocaching experiences: the
fooking muggle sitting in his fooking car. At 5:15 in the fooking a.m., a
muggle (one of the non-geocaching persuasion) drives into this otherwise
totally deserted parking lot, parks his fooking vehicle, and proceeds to
fooking sit while I'm going from stage to stage. It never fails when there is
an otherwise totally deserted parking, does it? In this case, not necessarily
a complication, since muggles will be present at this location on a regular
basis. However, under these circumstances, it just reinforces the notion that
there is no empty parking lot into which a muggle won't insinuate himself at
precisely the wrong time. Go fooking figure.
From there, I headed farther east and snagged a handful of caches. My favorite
was one in the woods along the Eno River, just east of Efland, NC. A lovely
location just downriver from a dam, which was visible in the distance from the
cache site. So despite the pre-dawn muggle madness, I enjoyed myself no end.
A now a week of bachelorhood, writing, and, hopefully, more geocaching.
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