EDO had been hearing about this sport, or game, called geocaching. She wanted to play. I agreed to give it a try. Geocaching is a treasure-hunt-type of game played using the Global Positioning System (GPS). Cachers build a weather proof collection of stuff—it doesn't matter what, but it is usually composed of cheap trinkets—and hide it in the woods. They then publish the cache coordinates on the internet for others to find. It is pretty simple really. And, normally, the cache isn't too far off the beaten track. It is the searcher that makes things difficult. For example, in looking around last week, we got the car stuck in the mud and then decided to hike cross country to find the cache. I called it a "short cut." Calling it that was, of course, certain to turn the whole thing into an afternoon long thrashing. Which it was. But, we did find the cache.
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