You know they are not all this interesting. There are some that I won’t even stop at.”
“Like the lamp post ones?”
“And guardrail caches. Who wants to look for a geocache with cars zipping past at fifty miles an hour? Guardrails are there to keep drivers on the road. They are nice and unobtrusive. You add a geocacher to the scene and they just become a distraction.”
“I’ve never found a guardrail cache. Are they hard?”
“They are either very easy or very tricky. Frustrating either way.”
The road ran along a farmer’s field and then wandered away and over another creek. I had no idea the area I had spent four semesters in had so much running water. This bridge was sturdier than the last one we had seen. After it crossed the bridge, the road ascended the side of a hill and came out on top. A tall structure made the hill look bigger than it was. Twiggy checked his GPS.
“Still a tenth of a mile.”
However, a tenth of a mile brought us up behind the building. It looked like it was made of river rock and parts of the walls had fallen down over time. Cracks spider-webbed between the rocks looking like an accident waiting to happen.
“Caches are usually not placed inside ruins,” Twiggy said. “Too many muggles explore places like this and they could find it by accident.”
“Can we explore it just like the muggles do?” I asked.
“Sure. Let’s find the cache first.”
He parked the van next to the building and we carefully stepped around the debris that seems to be around any abandoned building.
“It sure is a pretty place to send crazy people,” I said.
“I doubt if most of them were crazy. Back then people were considered crazy if they were different. Some had physical problems, some mental, some were just hard to get along with. It was a place to send people to get rid of them.”
“That’s sad.”
“I know a few people I wouldn’t mind sending to an institution,” he said jokingly.
“So, where’s the cache?”
“I’ve had a few people overhear me talk geocaching and they think I’m crazy.”
“Only because it has its own vocabulary and they don’t understand what you’re talking about. Do you remember me asking you what you were talking about? That’s what prompted you to show me what geocaching was.”
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