Another (Long) Weekend in Dahlonega
Georgia, Locations, United States September 4th, 2010And anther cache found. The latitude & longitude for “Some fun in Dahlonega” puts it in the hallway between a couple of restaurants. Even the Google Maps pointer says it’s there. So we went in and I asked the server at the desk, “If I said I was looking for a geocache, would you give me a blank stare?” She said that, actually, she’s heard that question before, but as far as she knew there was no cache in there. One time, they let a guy do a bunch of searching all over, but he didn’t find anything.
We checked the hint, and it made it pretty clear where it was, so we went to that spot, and my younger daughter found it quickly, hiding in plain sight.
The cache was well stocked, but mostly with pencils, magnet letters and a few little toys. The travel bugs that were supposedly in there, weren’t.
Took nothing, left nothing, signed the log, got the smiley.
I told my older son to go back to the restaurant and let them know where they could redirect geocachers in the future. (Not too specifically, of course.) When he came back, he said that there were 3 waitresses at the desk. When he told the one we’d met before our message, one of the other said, “Oh, are you one of those crazy people with GPS’s?”
Yes. Yes we are.
September 14th, 2010 at 12:21 am
Awesome! I love this blog! I just wrote one post recently about caching, but a whole blog! Genius! My husband and I just moved to Dahlonega and have found a few of the caches y’all have.
Cache on!
September 14th, 2010 at 8:58 am
Thanks Sara. If you search for “geocache blog” in Google, you’ll find quite a few other ones. Look especially for HeadHardHat’s blog, where he posts videos for geocachers. A great guy, who’s also branched out into short TV episodes.
Dahlonega is a very beautiful place. We love our visits up there. It’s nice to get away from the metro Atlanta area once in a while, and it’s not far away.