BEWARE & YIKES!

Are you BRAVE and ADVENTURSOME? Then this cache is for YOU!

I could hardly sleep throughout the night thinking about the fun stuff I was going to do the next day! So when the early morning dawn started creeping into the corners of my bedroom, I was ready and jumped out of bed. I wasn’t going to go out until later in the day, but I wanted to make sure that I had everything ready. The time on the clock was later than it appeared because normally it was a lot brighter than this so I took a peek out the window. Oh Goodness. Thick total fog that stretched from the river, right up to the windows and no way to see out. I certainly wasn’t going to let anything like a little fog dampen my spirits.

I ate breakfast and did the morning chores of feeding animals. I decided I’d take Ani, my border collie with me. She did so love riding in the truck, always on the lookout for a stray cow that might be grazing on a grassy ridge 2 miles over. She always had a bark or two ready for them, just to let them know that she was the Queen of cows and they had better not get too close. Course, my Ma who is 91 likes to ride along and watch my antics, so I took her also.

It was still foggy but I decided to go anyway, so I got all my equipment loaded into the truck along with Ani who promptly claimed the whole back seat where she could easily watch out the windows and spot cows, even though today was going to be a little tough to see very far. We needed to drive 20 or so miles to our destination and slowly made our way down the road. Not much traffic to contend with, so we had no problems and by the time we got to where we were going, the fog was backing off. Instead of a heavy pea-soup type fog, it was more of a misty mystical world where the trees were mere shadows now instead of being totally obliterated. It was very quiet and eerie and Ani stuck to my feet like glue. I got my GPS and my big box of goodies. Ani and I proceeded to walk around looking for a perfect spot to hide my newest and latest geocache.

We were just having a great fun time walking around the hillsides, looking for the perfect spot when the sun started playing hide and seek with us, and finally decided to stay. What a beautiful sight we enjoyed with the lifting fog, blue skies peeking out and the sun shining down on us. I took a few photographs and then we spotted the perfect place to hide our new treasure, which we accomplished. Then I had to upload the coordinates into the GPS in order to post on the internet so other fellow geocachers would be able to find it. THAT is when I got smacked upside the head! Ma was sitting in the truck and said i started leaping around and clucking like a turkey. Yes, I KNOW it is gobble gobble, but I clucked!

After I got over the leaping and clucking business, I stood right over my hidden treasure and started pushing buttons, when a large dark shadow enveloped me. Ani’s hair stood on end and she let out horrific guttural growls like I’d never heard. I looked around and couldn’t believe my eyes. Oh my gosh! We had a giant dinosaur running right at us. What to do? Ani and I ran for the truck, but we needn’t have worried. Mr. Dino was only after a sage chicken dinner that we hadn’t seen because we were too intent on our getting the coordinates. We sat in the truck and watched Mr. Big Guy munch up his lunch and after he left, we got back out, collected ourselves and found my GPS that I’d dropped and finished getting the coordinates into it.

BEWARE of things crawling, flying, snorting or slobbering! It was harrowing for me because a sage bush bit me twice. Now I am not saying the coordinates are correct and I’m not saying they are incorrect, but you shouldn’t have too much trouble. Other than if Mr. Dino comes back looking for another noon meal. And who knows but what he might bring his friends and relatives along for a picnic? So make sure you hide your sandwiches and snacks.

My hidden treasure is in an Ammo box and has lots of things to do with Dinosaurs. There is a travel bug that is attached to a little devilish rubber dinosaur that keeps trying to eat the poor little bug!

The cache contains the following items:

Letter of Introduction Geocaching cards Log book with 2 pencils and a sharpener in case you get scared and break the lead
Plastic dinosaur
2 small Eggasaurus eggs with instructions on how to hatch them out Dinosaur Hat Tack –
T-Rex Coin
Leather shoestrings for boots
Telephone cords with jack plug-ins
Black bird with a bright orange beak that flaps wings and plays music when button is pushed
New Zipper Pull
Small notebook with names and addresses of Famous Celebrities
LAST BUT NOT LEAST – Brand new, never driven Jeep Hurricane for the FTF. Yeppers, I won the lottery and want to share my good fortune with you.
I personally have never heard of one of these caches, but a friend back East told me about them and said they are very rare and lots of fun to find. IF you would LIKE to make up big stories and lies about your adventures trying to find this cache, that makes it all the more fun. This is just a suggestion of course . . . you are welcome to post anything you'd like on the cache page after you find this fun hide!

You are also welcome to post photographs of the nightmares and encounters you might run up against. Please feel free to check out my photo gallery of what I went through!

I'm not saying you will find anything nightmarish, but if you do, please tell us about it. That makes it even more fun.

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