Since Maggie moved out and went to live with the Army-Brats (Joni & Dave) it had been a while since I had gone geocaching. O-Dis, Maggie’s big brother had heard that Maggie had moved out and called to say he was looking for a place to stay. When O-Dis asked if he could move in I said sure thing! As I was waited for O-Dis to arrive from the East Coast I called the Army-Brats and asked if they and Maggie would like to join Grandma, O-Dis and me for a day of geocaching. As everyone was eager to make this a special day of caching Joni picked the cache to hunt. Joni had heard about a Puzzle Cache located in the Cleveland Zoo that was placed by the Cleveland Metropark Rangers. This one sounded like fun, so off we went to find treasure, gold, (well maybe not real gold) and good times. The cache we were seeking is named “Take a Journey Around the World at the Zoo”. The Geocaching.com GC number for the cache is GCT22E. The Zoo is located at 41 degrees 26.820 minutes North and 81 degrees 42.703 minutes West. The park Rangers have hidden six laminated tags inside the Zoo each marked with a different letter and a single digit number. We were given the coordinates for each of the six laminated tags before we started. We also received a briefing about special requirements while hunting this cache by the Metropark Rangers. Always a good idea to get a safety briefing by the Rangers before departing on a trip around the world. The numbers and letters on the tags are needed to substitute into the final coordinates to arrive with the correct location for the cache that is located at 41 degrees 26.ABC minutes North and 81 degrees 42.DEF minutes West. Well as we progressed thru the Park Rangers puzzle finding tags we saw areas of the Zoo that we never really took the time to visit before. We got to visit Australia, South America, North America, the Polar Artic, Africa and Asia. Well we were in each country we learned about the animals from each country. We had a really great time and made the entire trip around the world in about three hours. We had lunch at one of the local eateries and took some souvenir pictures as we went to help us remember the great time we all had on our trip. The Cleveland Metropark Rangers have done a great job with this cache. May the Geo-Gods always smile on them in all that they do.
