Yep, there's a geocache at that wreck you see above. I think I can safely say
it's one of the most unusual settings for a cache I've seen in quite a while.
It was placed by friend and fellow geocacher, Skyhawk63 (a.k.a.
Tom), whose birthday happens to be today. To celebrate, he and his wife
Punkins19 (a.k.a. Linda) hosted a caching event at the
Freeway Dining Room
in Reidsville. It was a fun event, with damn good food and quite a few cachers
in attendance.
Afterward, I teamed up with friends David & Diana (a.k.a.
David & Diana), Diefenbaker (a.k.a. Scott),
Night-Hawk (a.k.a. Tom) and
Rhodorooter (a.k.a. Dave), for a little ride up the road to
Danville, where a few relatively new caches awaited our attention. Our primary
target was
Riverbend Ramble (GCB9J29), a six-stage multi on the
Danville Riverwalk Trail, which both Night-Hawk and I had made some progress on a short while back,
but we had failed to solve the clues to reach the final stage. This time, with
invaluable assistance from David & Diana, we were able to decode the
necessary keys and find the cache. It turned out to be great fun, all the more
so because the temperature finally turned somewhat more tolerable (87℉ rather
than triple digits, and there was an occasional almost-cool breeze).
We successfully hunted a couple of others nearby, and then I dragged my
near-exhausted self back home. This evening, I'll be in my regular seat on the
Sunday evening Lovecraft eZine Podcast, which will feature John Langan talking about his new
fiction collection. He will be appropriately heckled.
Laters.
