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The Adventures of Dellmar By: Rendell Farrar

On October 8th Dr. Roukema gave us an assignment using Geocaching. I have previously heard about Geocaching and had actually found some caches in the town I was from. So after I installed the app onto my smartphone I was ready to go ahead and dive into this assignment. I had left the classroom ready and upbeat about finding some geocaches. Once I turned on the GPS it located 3 different caches around Campbell. The first one I went to find was near the Bell Tower.

It took me about 15 minutes to get close to the area where the cache was stored. When I was getting in the general area; my GPS told me its only accurate until 30 ft. I knew then the should be a breeze. As I looked and looked I could not find this cache. I was in the bushes and bending down looking into the drainage systems. There were a couple of people looking at me with strange faces as I, a guy with a cell phone lurking around in the bushes. Some fellow students asked me if I had lost something I kindly told them no, I was just doing an assignment for class. Forty-five minutes have passed and I am still out there trying to find this particular cache near the bell tower. By then it was I was determined that I was going to find this cache. So around this time I had noticed Campbell Security driving up in his golf cart. He asked me was I looking for something so I explained to him that I was doing a assignment. He got out of his golf cart and started helping me try to find this cache, which was pretty awesome, but to no avail we were not able to find it. So I looked into the next cache near the Campbell Well. Once I was getting near my coordinates I was looking around to see where this cache was hiding. After a while of looking I looked into the app for clues. The clue that was provided pointed me into the right direction of where to look. I was able to find my first geocache on my own I was super excited people nearby probably thought I was a little crazy. So with my new with sense of empowerment I looked for another geocache. The third one I found was in a fairly easy place. Once I was near there was a clear idea where that cache could be so and I found that one with no problem. Now feeling accomplished with finding two caches within 30 minutes I was getting ready to go to my next class for the day, but in the back of my mind I still wanted to find that first cache. Later that evening from all of the walking and searching I did earlier that day I was able to relax and go to a concert in Raleigh .