Two+Cities,+One+Country

__Two Cities, One Country __ We just wanted to give a small introduction to the members of our group and how we thought up our name. In our group we have Brittany Adcock, Rachael Herwig, and Courtney West. We three decided to band together and go on a geocaching adventure in the great city of Fuquay-Varina. We set out on our adventure to find these caches and we quickly learned the majority of them are out in the woods. We found out that two of us hate being in the woods, and the other just walks right in, having no problem with the creepy crawly things. We thought of the story of the Country mouse and City mouse, when they switch places with each other and realize they don't like those different environments. We found we have two city mice in our group, and one country mouse.

Dear Diary, Today I went on a treasure hunt!! And no, there were no pirates or sailing to an exotic island. Instead our boat was a car and the area we visited was a park with lots of woods. The treasure hunt began with our team meeting up and deciding which location we wanted to choose. Once we choose a cache location, I tried to enter the coordinates into the GPS. I will admit, I couldn't figure it out even with reading the directions. So I gave the GPS to my team mates... They were unable to figure out how to enter the coordinates to. So Brittany decided she was going to download an app. The app saved the day! Once we had the app, we zoomed our way over to the geocache location. The app took us to Fuquay-Varina. We arrived at a park called CHJ Environmental Park.

We step out onto the parking lot and follow the compass on the phone. As we follow the app it brings us to the edge of the road, then says we had arrived. We knew that this wasn't correct, so we look at the cache description and realize, there is a code to decipher. Now I felt like a spy! Once we decode the message, it says the cache is hidden 30 feet from the creek at North West. That's when I knew we would have to venture into the woods. Brittany and Rachael did not like this idea, but I knew we needed to find this cache. We set off on a hiking trail to find a creek. We didn't have to walk very far before we saw a creek. It was very tiny, I wasn't sure if that was the creek they were talking about at first but we figured out that was creek. Since the clue said 30 feet from the creek I knew it wouldn't be on the path. The whole time I am walking around the woods trying to figure out where it may have been hidden, I can hear the sound of Brittany and Rachael shrieking. They did not like the woods at all! They would do a little dance when they went through a spider web, or a bug landed on them. (We did get bitten plenty of times by mosquito... the bites were so itchy!) As I laugh at their shrieking, I am looking for a small walked path from the trail to the cache. I finally noticed one, and walked it into the words and I found the cache! It was hidden behind a big pile of bushes. I looked inside the cache and found the log, and swaps that people had left behind. So we decided to swap something from the bag with something we had. We decided to use a Campus Grill business card to leave.



Dear Diary, Let me tell you about my crazy, exciting adventure I took part in today with some really awesome friends!! Rachael Herwig, Courtney West and I went on an adventure of a lifetime. What was it you asked? No, it wasn't a trip to the beach, the mountains, or a cruise. It was something better than that, we went geocaching!!! Okay, so maybe geocaching is not as great as going to the beach, the mountains, or a cruise but it was still pretty fun!! We decided we wanted to take our geocaching away from campus today. We knew that mostly everyone was going to be doing their geocaching around campus and we wanted to be little Sherlock Holmes and go explore somewhere else. We took our adventure to the great town of Fuquay-Varina!! Before we began our little adventure my team and I needed to decide where we wanted to look for these caches. We looked online to see where there were caches hidden in the area of Fuquay. The first one we decided to do led us to an Environmental Park. When we got there I was thinking this is going to be a piece of cake, we will find this cache in no time. However, that was not the case, this little hidden cache took us all through the park and I don't mean the beautiful parts of the park. Oh no, it took us through the woods of the park!! Needless to say I was not to thrilled about that. I DO NOT DO THE WOODS!! I was terrified!! Like a good little friend I let Courtney take the lead in this one. Good news was she found the cache, logged that we had found it, replaced it with something and we were able to move on. Thank goodness!!! After Courtney found her cache we moved on to the next one. I was so excited that we had found one cache that I wanted to find the next one. I went back to the list of hidden caches and picked the next one. I read the description and clicked on the map and had the app lead us to the next cache. Yes, diary we did use a app to help us out with our detective skills. We attempted to use the GPS that we had and we could never get it to work right so we had to find an alternative solution. Gotta love technology and free apps!! :). The map finally tells us that we had arrived to our destination and where was it you ask, it was another set of woods!!!! I was not to thrilled about this one either. However, I decided to put my big girl pants on and set forth into the woods. However, the good thing about these woods was the fact that they were more open then the last set of woods. As we started hunting for the cache, our compass on the app said that we were really close to where the cache was hidden. We began searching and searching and could not find it anywhere. The clue we had told us that it was with a set a of three trees, like three brothers. The first tree I saw were a set of three trees so I began looking all around the trees and could not find it anywhere. After looking around for a while with no luck I moved on and started trapping through the woods, watching where I was walking because I was freaking out that I was going to get attack by something scary!!! Anyway, after about 20 minutes or so, Courtney, Rachael and I were still having no luck finding this cache. We decided to go back to the first tree I came in contact with, the only set of three trees together and look again. After a few minutes of looking a little more, I found the cache. It was hidden under a pile of brush!!! I was SO EXCITED!!!! The cache was hidden in a little container that had an assortment of different items that people could choose from as long as they put something back into the container. Like a good little geocacher, I found the log book, logged that we had found the cache and took something out of the container and replaced it with a Campus Grill business card. Who knows, the next person who finds this cache may need a new place to eat, so why not the Campus Grill, great food!!! :) After logging the cache, I placed the container back where I got it from and covered it back up and quickly ran out of the woods. Have I mentioned that I do not like the woods!! I didn't think so!! :) After finding my cache we moved on to the next cache. This cache was for Rachael and of course hers was not in the woods!! Go figure!! :)

Rachael Herwig 10-16-13 Geocache Narrative

Dear Diary, Today I went out with Brittany Adcock and Courtney West on a geocaching adventure. It was a lot of fun! The geocaches we found were mainly in the woods, but the one I found was at Campbell’s Diner in Fuquay.



The clue said, “Ramp it up”. The cache was hidden underneath the ramp of the diner in a camouflage peanut butter container. I took a bracelet from the cache and replaced it with a Campbell calendar card.

Before arriving at our actual location, the GPS took us to a building near the diner, but we then figured out the cache was in another location because there was no ramp. It took us to a car lot beside the diner. This cache was relatively easy to find compared to some of the others we had to find.

 Our fourth geocache took us back into downtown Fuquay, to a quaint little post office. I do not remember how old the post office is but is a very old post office because the size was very small. The town of Fuquay had fixed it up and painted it white with red trim around the windows. The post office looked so fresh and new.

We thought since the post office is so small and the clue said "Watch your head" the cache would be easy to find. We knew we need to look under something that would require us to be careful with our heads, but we didn't see the cache at first. And then I took a closer look and found it! It was tucked between the ramp and the building, on its own little ledge. Once we had found the cache we quickly looked inside it to log we had found it, and to see what we could swap out of it. There were two travel bugs inside the cache. One was headed to the UK, and the other to Canada. I wanted to help the bugs travel but I didn't know anyone who was traveling that way.

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 210%;">AND THEN THERE WERE THE ONES WE COULDN'T FIND.... <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 1.5;">While we were making our way through Fuquay looking for caches we came across those very annoying caches that we could not find. The first one we tried to find was said to be hidden in a parking lot somewhere. The information we found online said that it would be a very easy find, however, that was not the case. Rachael, Courtney and I searched the parking lot everywhere. Looking under the benches, around the light post and even under a pole that connects to the traffic lights. With the weird looks we received from the townsfolk, we did not care. We were very determined to find this cache. In the end we came up short and could not find the cache anywhere!!! <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The last place we looked was at the local Fuquay Fire Department. We were a little skeptical at first to try and find this one because it was located at a Fire Department. However, we decided to go for it and see what we could find. When we arrived at the fire department our compass had us travel behind the fire station near you guessed it, the woods!!! We began looking around everywhere and could not find it anywhere. The clue we had found said it was hidden in a camo container. We began looking for a camo container thinking that would help us find it better, but of course it did not. After looking around for 30 minutes or so we gave up and decided to leave before the firefighters started to get suspicious and wonder why three girls are trapping through the fire department. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;">

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">This concludes the geocaching adventures of two cities, one country. We laughed, we screamed, we may have gotten lost a few times, but all in all we had a good time!!! We made memories and learned a lot about each other while completing an assignment that we will never forget!! :)

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">Don't forget to check out our lesson plan: <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 170%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">