Our Crazy Adventures

I was not at the computer last week because I talked my husband into a crazy adventure. Geocaching. In my defense, it was eighty percent research for Lilac Lane and twenty percent I needed to get out of the house.

Geocaching is a scavenger hunt-style game that is managed with an app. The game is simple, free, and a fun way to explore old and new places. I watched YouTube vidoes and read blogs. With each bit of information I knew this was my kind of game. The rules are simple.

People hide containers of all shapes and sizes. I thought it would be shoebox sized container. It turns out some of the containers are smaller than a pillbox.
Others then set out to find them.
The larger containers have a piece of paper or a book to sign.
When a person finds the container, they take something out of the container and leave something behind. I brought stickers to share.
Regardless of success or failure, people log their attempt.

The app used Google Maps to help us get within ten feet of the "geocache." Easy right?

Nope.

This was one of those small child hid the car keys when you're ten minutes late for work level of difficulty.

We searched under rocks, trees, picnic benches. I hurdled a creek. A couple of times, in hopes that a garden gnome had tried to abscond our treasure, I looked under the bottom leaves of flowers. Our shoes got muddy. People created wide berths to walk around us. It was the most fun I'd had in a long time.

The picture is of my husband showing our one geogache find.

To say we failed horribly at this game is an understatement.

However, we found something else. For each challenge we spent thirty to sixty minutes as a team working to achieve something. Starsky and Hutch, Sherlock Holmes and Watson, and the Scooby Doo gang had nothing on us. We found what had been buried for almost a year – a fascination with our small slice of the world.

Will we do it again. Definitely. What would I do differently. Bring more snacks. Trying to find something the size of my wedding band demands a lot of energy. I'm kidding, I like snacks and will use any excuse to enjoy them.

And this is where I'll close this week's note, leaving you with warm wishes and hopes for adventures that make you smile.

Merri

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