Flashes of Panic

Interesting stuff happened today, some of which I’ll tell you about tomorrow. But the milestone was this: I archived my first cache. I’d planted it well over a year and a half ago, in the park across the street from the apartment building we used to live in. It survived much longer than I expected, but between finds in May and unsuccessful hunts in June, someone apparently thought it was litter, picked it up, and either threw it out or took it home. We checked on it this afternoon, and it was definitely Gone.

It’s timely, because I would have to be finding someone else to do “maintenance” (i.e. check out reports of problems) once I moved. Now I don’t, and the area is clear for someone else to think of a different hide. (By the rules, caches can’t be too close together, so this one was “blocking” other potential downtown Northampton hides.)