We were camping in the Waco area over the weekend. Did some caching as well. One of the caches we did was in Mother Neff's State Park. This was a really nice park, and deserved a second cache, so we went to talk with the park ranger. He had heard about geocaching, and said other parks hadn't had any problems that he knew of. We told him that there was a cache in the park, and we would like to place one as well. He knew about the cache, but was very pleased that we asked permission to place ours. Said that the other was placed without his permission, but he really didn't care that it was there.
His whole attitude seemed to change as we were talking. The fact that we asked really seemed to impress him. We left him a park map with the cache location and our contact number, as well as the geocaching web site address. Hopefully, we have one more park ranger on our side!
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