A Peaceful Place to Visit

As vacation is drawing to a close, and the weather today is nice, but a bit nippy I decided to find another cache. I went to GeoCaching.com and selected my next cache for the day. I decided to find the cache named "Cache Cache". I grabbed my bag of trade items, entered the longitude and latitude into my trusty GPS Receiver, that I have named Maggie because it is made by Magellan and off I headed. The cache is located at 41 degrees, 26.927 minutes North by 081 degrees 48.789 minutes West and is a small black tube about 6 inches long. When I arrived I at the cache site I found that it was hidden in a evergreen tree located in the Alger Cemetery in Cleveland Ohio that was established in 1824. After I found the tube hanging back inside the tree about 5 feet up from the ground I signed the log and left a small hat pin in the tube, replaced the cache log and cap then hung the tube back inside the tree where I found it. I spent the next two hours reading the stories of the people buried there. I found many young children that died in the first 6 months of life in the 1907 to 1911 time frame. I found many war veterans from World War One and World War Two. I found entire families that went back for several generations. I have driven by on the main street located two city blocks away and never new that the cemetery was here. This turned out to be one of the best cache finds to date.

This Can't be That Hard...

I looked out the window and it looked like a great day to find another cache. So I grabbed my bag of trade items and headed out the door with my trusty GPS receiver in my hand. Today's goal was to find the cache named "LASER Brookpark" located at 41 degrees 24.563 minutes North by 081 degrees 48.197 minutes West in Brookpark Ohio. I was looking for a small glass jelly jar containing small trade items. And just like the other locations finding the general location was the easy part. I parked the car in a near by parking lot and headed into the woods. After walking around for about 10 minutes the GPS said I was with in one foot of the jelly jar. But the GPS was showing an accuracy of 15 feet, meaning that somewhere in a 30 foot circle I would find my prize. After looking under logs, down rabbit holes, in small over hangs by the creek I started to circle back and forth to get a better reading. I took off my hat and scratched my head, the GPS kept bringing me back to the same spot. It was getting dark and still no jelly jar. As I was getting stiff from walking around bent over to look under logs and rocks, I stood up and leaned back to stretch. And that's when I noticed that the tree in front of me had rotted off about 6 feet from ground level and looked odd. As I climbed up on a fallen log to look down inside I saw the small glass jelly jar covered in some old rotten tree wood. And in the jar were some US Flag pins and a log listing all the people that had found the jelly jar before me. I took out a flag pin and left a hat pin with trucks on it in it's place, then signed the log and put it all back in the jelly jar. I took a picture and placed the jar back in it's hiding place and covered it back up for the next person to find. I looked at my watch and realized I had been looking for about two hours. Gee time really does fly when your having fun!

On to the Next Cache

I went out today on the way back from visiting with my Mom at Fairview Hospital. This time I went to the cache named [ Park O" Lame "How Munn-Dane"]. It is located at North 41 degrees, 27.659 minutes by West 081 degrees 48.758 minutes. I figured out the unique name when I found the park named "Munn Park" on Munn Road in Cleveland, Ohio. Neat play on words. The park was a little soggy, but the cache is a good one to visit. And once again I stood in front of the hiding place in the park looking a bit puzzled as to where the very small container might be hidden. The container was a little smaller than a 35mm film canister. I had to remember that the hider did not want the casual passerby to find it. Once I started looking with that in mind I saw the only place it could be, some where inside the tree stump in front of me. If it had been a snake it would have bitten me. I was almost standing on top of the hiding spot. This was a fun cache to find. I tried to take a picture of my self. It's not a great picture, but it was getting dark and I figured what the heck, it's a picture. Hopefully my picture taking skills will improve as I go.

Found my First Cache

Well, I finally found my first cache. The name of the cache is [Park O' Lame "How Munn-Dane"] and is located at North 41 degrees 27.659 minutes by West 81 degrees 48.758 minutes. And as promised by the person that placed the cache, it is in the smallest public park. If it had not been for the cache I would not have know that the city of Lakewood Ohio even had this park. The city named it "The Lakewood Small Park". Well, it's on to searching for the next cache to find.