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Geocaching: ZOMG!!1111 JEEP!!!! GLEE!!!!

I now hold in my grubby fist a real, honest-to-God Jeep travel bug!!! There is a long, long story behind it, but the short version is that Shawn tracked it down through a backdoor. Its previous hider hadn't logged the drop in the usual way and in fact had erroneously specified the wrong cache for his drop, which is why perhaps nobody else even knew it was there. S took off from work a little early, came home and hopped on his motorcycle, and shot back up to the Kingston ferry. After the crossing he rode like the wind out to some obscure lake on the peninsula, found the cache, and glommed onto the Jeep. The only thing that would make this more perfect is if I could have been along for the find. However, it needed to be done quickly and on a motorcycle (to get to the head of the ferry line--90-minute wait for cars!) and of course I don't have one anymore. For those of you who will be seeing us in the next few days, we'll bring the Jeep so you can feast your winkers on it and maybe, if you've been extra good, touch it. Damn, Shawn's good. Now we just have to research a good cache to drop it in for the next finder, which probably means going for a serious trek, as you don't want to drop it in any old 1/1 grab-and-go.

SQUEEEEEE!!!!!!!!
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[identity profile] cupcake-goth.livejournal.com 2006-09-02 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
Oh yay!

[identity profile] kijjohnson.livejournal.com 2006-09-02 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes! Lord of the Caches.

[identity profile] kijjohnson.livejournal.com 2006-09-02 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
By the way, the Mood icon? Makes my head spin.

[identity profile] weaselmom.livejournal.com 2006-09-02 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I'm not as amped about this icon set as I thought I would be. There are very few different faces, really, and most of them are neutral. I may go back to the ones I had, but these are cute for a little while...

[identity profile] bellanorth.livejournal.com 2006-09-05 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Congrats to you! Sounds like this was the weekend for your gc milestones.

[identity profile] weaselmom.livejournal.com 2006-09-05 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! It was really such a frustrating day, with the DNF and leaving the swag bag and all, that I'm glad we at least ended up with a nice round number. In our defense, some of them yesterday had higher difficulty ratings than any we've done so far. If only they had some puzzles based on spelling or heraldry, I'd rock them.

[identity profile] mckitterick.livejournal.com 2006-10-16 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
Awesome to be able to ride to the head of the line. *sigh* I miss that... not that there's such a thing as traffic here. But, you know.

Did I miss something along the way? What's a "Jeep"?
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