A Hunting We Will Go!
For the past couple of weeks my wife, my friend, and myself (for a total of three) have been talking up the idea of doing something outdoors...in sunlight. I'm not kidding. We needed an activity that was in the scary not-inside, yet still appealed to our pasty white mentalities.
Then someone remembered that some years ago we went Geocaching a couple of times, and none of us remembered it sucking. So we chose Saturday as a good day to get together grill out and play video games all day. Sunday we decited that if we were going to go outside, we'd better do it before Monday. We planned to meet at 2pm. So about 2:30pm we arrived and watched part of a Marx Brother's movie while we talked about going outside. Eventually we decited that we should discuss it over Pizza at Elizabeth's on Battleground. We opted to eat outside on the patio as sort of a warm up. Acting under the assumption that is, we got up the resolve to actually go through with our plan. We had the cache chosen and the pizza eaten by 4pm and we headed for Bur-Mil park. Every Presbyterian in Guilford county was there. But having forgotten just how big that park was we were pleased to discover that there were plenty of places to park and not too much by way of crowds on the trails.
Our first command decision was to go the straitest route because the trail head was a long walk from where we were and we didn't want to spend hours on our hunt. It took us about an hour to reach the trail having to traverse both a golf course (the sixth hole) and 50 feet of woods. We reached the paved trail tired and in my case paranoid about the hundreds of parasites that were surely trying to find a way into my brain. Snake Sense(tm) detected no legless reptiles so we were a go for adventure!
We walked around a very small catfish pond (10 minutes) and spent the next hour and a half walking in a 50ft area looking for the elusive cache. The cache is supposed to be a Micro cache, I never figured it would require a microscope to locate.
We gave up, hot, tired, and with a long walk up the paved trail to the paved trail head, up the paved street to the paved parking lot. We found ourselves very wet, which was odd because it wasn't raining and we weren't taking a shower. It was just like that wet sensation you get just before you turn the AC on.
Afterwards we went our separate ways and played video games. It turned out that I was completely parasite free (on the outside anyway). Outside is hard, maybe even harder than making a web comic. I think I will give this outdoor thing another shot next weekend. Who knows, I might find treasure.
UPDATE: I just noticed reading down in the comments that we had located the exact location, only not the one where the cache was. In elementary school I always got an "Unsatisfactory" on "Reading and following directions." I also got D's in spelling.
