[Geocache Adventures] Containers, Boston, And Aspirations
I was looking forward to caching in Boston, thinking I could find some quickies here and there, but I cached alone and managed to only find two caches. Not only is it much more difficult to foot it from cache to cache, but twice a cache was nowhere to be found; the sphire on the left had a brick taken out of its side and a hole for hiding items, and there was simply nothing there. I made up for the lack of caches found in Boston the following weekend with Jamie and Mark and headed down to Champaign. On the way we got 33 caches -- there were SO MANY in the middle of little farm communities, and I guess it makes sense. I mean, what else is there to do if you're surrounded by corn everywhere and nothing else? :: laugh ::
We keep finding unique cache containers on our adventures; all of the ones below are actually containers hiding caches -- yes, even the lightsaber. This has made me want to do my own caches with unique containers, but it seems that several that were unique (for example, one that was an old 60's lunchbox) tended to get damaged or even stolen, and I admit that that's a deterrent to doing this. When I thought of my own cache series, I thought immediately of Hyakunin isshu and thought a Japanese-themed cache series would be fantastic. But again, the problem is implementation. Just WHAT would be Japanese here? The containers? Clues from the poetry cards? A series of puzzles came to mind but it's very hard for me to not be an evil bitch and makes these things near unsolvable, which is most certainly NOT the point. Many ideas are popping into my head, but how to execute them -- THAT's the question.
If I ever get bored of the hobby, I can just work on the more difficult finds in the series. Did you know, for example, that there's an island in the Illinois River that has a cache?? I'd have to use a CANOE to get to it, and the sad things is that I've (briefly!) contemplated getting a canoe to do!! Oh, addiction.