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The Adventures of NOT finding Rent-A-Dog Rent-A-Dog N 37° 54.594 W 080° 19.200 Geocaching is on-line sport where Caches are hidden, the coordinates listed and a GPS locater is used to find them. A Travel Bug is a trackable tag that you attach to an item. This allows you to track your item. The item becomes a hitchhiker that is carried from cache to cache (or person to person) in the real world and you can follow its progress online. Yesterday I was looking for Rent-A-Dog on the Greenbrier River Trail. I thought I would easily nab this one, drop off the travel bug Galileo's Midnite Sun into the cache and take off to find another one. Things did not go as planned. Once I reached the first coordinate, it appeared that the next coordinate was heading toward the river. I had to hike down a hill full of brier bushes and poison ivy to get to the river. I finally thought I found the coordinate - a tree covered with poison ivy - luckily the plant has no effect on me like it does other people. Nevertheless I looked at the coordinates and realized that I was at 37° 54.574 when I was suppose to be at 37° 54.594. I climbed the hill back to the trail. I suspect that the GPS Unit was confused because now it wanted me to up a very steep cliff on the other side of the trail. Heck Darn Blast, I need hiking boots not tennis shoes to make it up that cliff. I suspect that Ferlin the Mutt and my favorite Hiking buddy was having a good laugh. One of the reasons the Cache is called Rent A is because the local dogs like to join the hikers. Ferlin was flirting with a female and a male was flirting with Ferlin. It was a major league challenge getting him away from the other dogs. Ferlin did find a trail to the river. I thought maybe Ferlin is on to something - so I followed him. There were a dozen or so Boy Toys skinny dipping in the river. It was good for a chuckle but I left as quickly as possible. Scantily Clad Geezers are more my style now-a-days. I am going back to attempt to find it again. Maybe without Ferlin. One of my geocaching buddies advised me to stay on the trail for another .5 miles and the coordinates will straighten out to where they need to be. Galileo's Midnite Sun will be launched off to a new adventure by this weekend. Geocaching does motivate me to go out on the hiking trails and I've made like-minded friends.  Abracadabra  |
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5/31/2006 5:29 pm |
Star, since you befriended me while most wouldn't I have tried desperately to follow your blogs and comments. I have not done a very good job however and I realize that it is my fault. I think I understand the trail following exercize but I still fine myself with two light hearted questions: 1. Was Ferlin attracted to the gay dog? 2.Were any of the nude boys you encounterd swimming in the river you strolled past, lucky enough to be one/some of the like-minded friends you "made" on your trek? You need not answer here in your blog if it makes you uncomfortable. Send me an e or just zip down to Doc's for a hearty meal, lots of ale and some good stories. We could even make some of our own.
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ROLFMA$$O! TUX- I love your wicked sense of humor. I think poor Ferlin is totally confused. He's been neutered so he doesn't have a clue about what he is attracted to. I didn't hang around the skinny dipping young men in the river - long enough to figure out what their mindset was. I think they were embarrassed. You know the song, the older the violin the sweeter the music. If I were closer to Texas, we'ld be sharing stories at Doc's or perhaps........ Abracadabra
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