This cache was AWESOME! (awesome to be said in high singing voice for full effect). It involved finding a military memorial at our public library. We then had to go to two more memorials at the library as well.
We took pictures of them and had to use the writing to decode a series of letters and numbers given to us. For example A.1.1.1 meant the first memorial, 1st line, 1st word, 1st letter. Once we found all the letters we converted them to numbers using the alphabet (A=1, B=2...). We used the numbers in an equation to finally reveal the coordinates of the cache.
We returned to the library where the coordinates sent us across the street to the park. Down a slope into trees and leaves, the cache was finally located in a tree hollow behind some rocks. The cache was as AWESOME (again, sing for effect) as the hunt.
It was in a military box and inside were some military themed objects. The coolest part, though, was that the last person to find the cache was from Portugal and apparently a world traveler. He left stamps from all over the world (Thailand being the prettiest), and a geocoin (a type of tracker that moves from cache to cache and is tracked on the internet).
The geocoin was originally from Germany and has moved all the way to Parker County! There was another tracker, too, that is part of a military code game played with caches. Apparently you have to visit multiple caches all around Tarrant County collecting these little army men who have codes on them that will eventually be used to find the ultimate cache.
AWESOME! (you know what to do)
We are going to try to leave the geocoin in Oklahoma if we go soon. Otherwise it will have to stay in Texas.
We took pictures of them and had to use the writing to decode a series of letters and numbers given to us. For example A.1.1.1 meant the first memorial, 1st line, 1st word, 1st letter. Once we found all the letters we converted them to numbers using the alphabet (A=1, B=2...). We used the numbers in an equation to finally reveal the coordinates of the cache.
We returned to the library where the coordinates sent us across the street to the park. Down a slope into trees and leaves, the cache was finally located in a tree hollow behind some rocks. The cache was as AWESOME (again, sing for effect) as the hunt.
It was in a military box and inside were some military themed objects. The coolest part, though, was that the last person to find the cache was from Portugal and apparently a world traveler. He left stamps from all over the world (Thailand being the prettiest), and a geocoin (a type of tracker that moves from cache to cache and is tracked on the internet).
The geocoin was originally from Germany and has moved all the way to Parker County! There was another tracker, too, that is part of a military code game played with caches. Apparently you have to visit multiple caches all around Tarrant County collecting these little army men who have codes on them that will eventually be used to find the ultimate cache.
AWESOME! (you know what to do)
We are going to try to leave the geocoin in Oklahoma if we go soon. Otherwise it will have to stay in Texas.
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