Geocaching, But Something Is Missing
Despite the rain over the weekend, we decided to head out for some geocaching. We picked a park that we had visited before, with the rather curious name of Purgatory Park. Supposedly the name comes from early settlers, remarking on the mosquitoes that they encountered on this swampy trail. “It’s not hell, it’s purgatory.” So legend has it.
The park is beautiful. It’s nice to see the active restoration efforts underway. Like most parks, there are official trails and deer paths that people make into trails. A few of our finds were located along the latter, my kind of find well off the beaten path.
We only snagged a few. The muggle traffic increased steadily during our time there. I did manage to pick up a travel bug from one cache. The cache, according to its travel bug page, had a coin attached to it, something that looked kind of nice like a goecoin. Curiously, the coin was missing when I found it. The dog tag and the cahin were all that was left. How odd that someone would swipe the coin and not the entire travel bug. Well, at least I can put it back on its way to fulufilling its mission to stay busy.
I find it very disturbing the number of time I hear about TBs and geocoins that come up missing. The part that bothers me the most is that you just know that it’s cachers who are doing it.
April 22nd, 2009 at 4:45 amYou’re right. And geocachers understand the investment.
April 25th, 2009 at 9:51 am