Palmer Eldritch

As a relatively new Cacher (and a relatively new divorcee) I have been following this incident with interest. I was introduced to Geocaching by a fellow work colleague and I started Geocaching as a way of going out and discovering interesting new places to walk with my children. All was good. All was fine. Mostly centred around Yorkshire. I chose local woodlands, 'off the beaten track', places we were going on holiday etc. Places lacking in muggles. We have now found places where caches have been hidden that we now go for walks around regularly. It was a great way of spending a bit of quality time, going out for a walk, and finding some "treasure" to swap with them. Since bitten by the Caching bug I have also found caches solo and with friends and have introduced Caching to College friends. (Sorry..but at least he put down the camera...lol) Anyway...My point is...I have always avoided populated places... City and town caches. No fun for me, no fun for my children. What's the point of signing a piece of paper in the middle of muggle infested? We don't want to visit our local <insert local supermarket name here> car park to sign a piece of paper in a micro or nano. And we don't want to look 'furtive' or 'suspicious'. And we definitely don't want to be arrested! Admittedly, we have had muggle encounters on our adventures, and we may have looked (to them) 'suspicious' but it has never been in an urban environment. Fair enough...Lead us to interesting places, points of interest of your local town/city, we will visit and log. It's always great to visit new and interesting places, but maybe just an appreciation is all it takes.

I've just set up a travel bug. It's mission is to be left on Philip K Dicks gravestone. You don't think that's too odd do you? I guess my cacheing epitaph would be:- "I came, I saw, I did a little cacheing."