This was our second one of the day. Since the first was micro I decided to drive out a little to fine a larger sized cache hopefully with some treasures for the boys to trade. The cache pages says just off the trail and the tree line so when we get to the tree line we find a nice little trail off the main trail and we start looking.
Soon enough a nice elderly man, John, comes walking by with his dog and stop to ask if we had lost something. It was the first time I had ever ran into a muggle while looking for a geocache. Since he didn't look like the type to try to steal a geocache I didn't see any reason to lie so I told him we were geocaching. I figured I would have to spend the next few minutes explaining geocaching but he instantly said, "I know what that is I have a friend who does it all the time." He told me his friends name but of course without a geocaching name I have no idea who anyone is.
So we keep looking and John calls his friend to tell him he just ran into a fellow geocacher and to see if he has any idea where the cache might be. Since I had walked back to the main trail to take to John it didn't take me long to see there was another small train on the other side of course that is where the geocache would have to be :-)
I gave John one of my wooden nickels and asked him to pass it along to his friend, I figured that way at least they would know who I was. A few day later I get an email from The DuHawks, for those who don't know they have either placed or found every geocache in the area. The boys and I have made a entire day of just finding cache they placed in Sumner. Once I saw their geocaching name I knew exactly who John was talking about.
As you can see Oliver was more interested in the dog then in the geocache. I was nice to run into John and hoepfully all muggles I meet will be so nice.
--Tom
Link to Geocaching Page
Soon enough a nice elderly man, John, comes walking by with his dog and stop to ask if we had lost something. It was the first time I had ever ran into a muggle while looking for a geocache. Since he didn't look like the type to try to steal a geocache I didn't see any reason to lie so I told him we were geocaching. I figured I would have to spend the next few minutes explaining geocaching but he instantly said, "I know what that is I have a friend who does it all the time." He told me his friends name but of course without a geocaching name I have no idea who anyone is.
So we keep looking and John calls his friend to tell him he just ran into a fellow geocacher and to see if he has any idea where the cache might be. Since I had walked back to the main trail to take to John it didn't take me long to see there was another small train on the other side of course that is where the geocache would have to be :-)
I gave John one of my wooden nickels and asked him to pass it along to his friend, I figured that way at least they would know who I was. A few day later I get an email from The DuHawks, for those who don't know they have either placed or found every geocache in the area. The boys and I have made a entire day of just finding cache they placed in Sumner. Once I saw their geocaching name I knew exactly who John was talking about.
As you can see Oliver was more interested in the dog then in the geocache. I was nice to run into John and hoepfully all muggles I meet will be so nice.
--Tom
Link to Geocaching Page
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