+CYBret Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Today's my birthday (37 and all original parts....mostly). My wife asked me what I wanted and I said I wanted a day to myself. I was approaching my 500th find and thought it would be great to hit it on my birthday. A few of the locals had noticed how close I was getting and had made suggestions about a cache that might be good for such a milestone. Lucifer's Spine was a lot of fun. Nice hike up a rocky "backbone" across the nature preserve. Definitely not a park and grab. When I got to the cache and popped it open..what should I find but this: A card...waiting for me! Not only had someone sent me a card, they had delivered it to a fairly challenging cache! Wow! I opened it up and here's what I found: I was in shock...totally speechless. RiverExplorer had made the hike up to the cache on Sunday to drop the card off (along with a card for a free pizza at his restaurant....great signature item, by the way). This has to be one of the neatest things anyone has ever done for me. I've had the pleasure of meeting a lot of people through this game and it's been a tremendous blessing to make so many new friends. Thanks to everyone who makes this community a community! Bret Quote Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 That's very cool. Happy B-day at you and congrats on your milestone! Quote Link to comment
+Team GPSaxophone Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 That's so cool! Congrats on your 500th! Quote Link to comment
Pipanella Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Oh man, that is just the neatest thing ever!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Have pepperoni on it for me. Quote Link to comment
+harleycache Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Happy birthday young man, and congrats on the 500! Quote Link to comment
+Webfoot Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 What a memorable birthday. Many happy returns of the day CYBret. Congrats on 500 finds as well. Quote Link to comment
+Cloudchaser Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 That's very cool! Congrats on 500 and Happy Birthday! Quote Link to comment
+mtn-man Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Very cool Bret and Oh Happy Day! Quote Link to comment
+worldtraveler Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 ...Thanks to everyone who makes this community a community! Bret And thank YOU for telling the story so we all can share your happiness. Nicest topic I've read in awhile. Oh, and congrats & happy birthday, too! Quote Link to comment
+clearpath Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Happy B-day CYBret. You are getting closer to the age where your ears and nose get bigger ... and everything else gets smaller. Congrats on your 500th find. Quote Link to comment
+Stunod Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Happy Birthday Bret! Thanks for the smile your story gave me. Quote Link to comment
+greyhounder Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Excellent!! Happy Birthday Bret! Bec Quote Link to comment
+rusty_tlc Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 (edited) Congrats! 37 is just starting it only gets better, just stay 18 in your heart. Edited June 30, 2004 by rusty_tlc Quote Link to comment
+Team GPSaxophone Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Free hot dogs being served in AS, come and get it Quote Link to comment
+Nazgul Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Very cool. I love reading about stuff like this. Congrats on 500. And 37. Quote Link to comment
+Kealia Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 That is an excellent story! Thnaks for sharing and offering some balance back to the caching karma here. It's only fair that you hike back up and leave a slice for the next finder, though. Quote Link to comment
+woof n lulu Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Happy Birthday and 500th find...may your days be sunny and caches have more pizza coupons.. Quote Link to comment
+New England n00b Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Hehehe, that is so cool... happy birthday, and congrats on 500! Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Ahhhhhhh, 1967. Excellent vintage! (Me too.) Congrats on 500 too. It's those special touches that make geocaching and geocachers so awesome. That kind of stuff happens quite often in my neck of the woods. Quote Link to comment
+G-Squad Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Happy Birthday and Congrats on 500, CyBret! But I think some serious KUDO's need to go out to RiverExplorer for doing this extraordinarily coooool thing! Quote Link to comment
+Cache Viking Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Happy Birthday CYBret Quote Link to comment
+Kealia Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 But I think some serious KUDO's need to go out to RiverExplorer for doing this extraordinarily coooool thing! I'd say that they have some serious karma headed thier way.... Quote Link to comment
+PandyBat Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Awww....how cool is that?!?! Congrats on everything and enjoy that pizza, Bret! Thanks to RiverExplorer for making this a special day for Cybret! I'm a 1967 baby too! Quote Link to comment
+Chuy! Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Made me misty eye. Congratulations. Quote Link to comment
+Polgara Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Way cool!! Happy B-day, & 500! Quote Link to comment
+Mastifflover Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Happy B-day!!! That was way too cool. See ya in Nashville this weekend. Quote Link to comment
+GPSKitty Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 That was too kewl. What a wonderful surprise from RiverExplorer. I'm sure I speak for the whole group when I say thanks so much for sharing the story with us. We need to hear about the GOOD stuff that happens out there. Congrats on making it to 37 and to 500. Quote Link to comment
+robert Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Pretty slick. Happy birthday, CYBret. Quote Link to comment
+Team DEMP Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Happy Birthday and congrats on your 500th!! Quote Link to comment
KYHilltopper Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Happy Birthday and congrats on 500. I'm one day later (today) on the birthday, twenty years earlier on the the year of my birth (1947) and a whole lot behind on cache numbers! KyHilltopper Clint Quote Link to comment
+Pobre Rico Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 ¡Feliz Cumpeaños, Amigo! Y mucho más... Quote Link to comment
+Team Flashncache Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Happy Birthday and congratulations on your 500th! Hoping to see you on the trail someday! Quote Link to comment
SunshineSnuz Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 What a great story! I really believe that it not only says something about the great cachers in your area but it must also say something about the man that was honored. A day late, but Happy Birthday anyway!! Quote Link to comment
+PSUPAUL Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Happy Birthday and congrats on reaching both 500 and 37. Also good job to RiverExplorer, very cool move! Quote Link to comment
+wimseyguy Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 (edited) Happy B-day CYBret. You are getting closer to the age where your ears and nose get bigger ... and everything else gets smaller. Congrats on your 500th find. Belated Happy B-day Cybret. I agree with you -my newfound caching buds are much more thoughtful than my old golfing buds! And Clearpath forgot the part about hair growing everywhere you don't want it to, and falling out where you want it to stay! Congrats on #500! I too like to make my round number caches memorable, but the last run through Nashville made #'s 700 and #800 blurry. #900 will happen this weekend at Geowoodstock, and I'll be sure to find something special for #1000. Edited June 30, 2004 by wimseyguy Quote Link to comment
+QuickKarl Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Hey, Happy Birthday and #500. I was wondering where you where yesterday. Glad you had a great day. Heres to many more of both. Bronz Quote Link to comment
+bitbrain Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Looks like 1967 was a popular year for us Geocachers to be born. Congrats on your milestones, d00d! Quote Link to comment
+tstar Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Happy Birthday CYBret I hope it was twice as good as your last and half as good as your next. Congrats on 500; I've bet you've seen some awesome things caching... Quote Link to comment
+joefrog Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Congrats on 500, and Happy Birthday! My b'day is coming up as well -- hopefully I can get the same gift (the day to goof off, that is)! REALLY needed to read a happy topic for a change! Quote Link to comment
+tirediron Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Congrats! Very cool! Quote Link to comment
+norbu Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 congrats, that was a very nice thing for them to do. very cool. Quote Link to comment
+Planet Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Way cool! But I notice he didn't put the coords for the pizza place on the card. And I said happy birthday to you in chat! And I put your birthdate in my palm for every year! I hope you enjoy your pizza! Save me a slice. Better not, i can't make it there before it gets cold. Happy Birthday! Quote Link to comment
+CYBret Posted June 30, 2004 Author Share Posted June 30, 2004 Save me a slice. Better not, i can't make it there before it gets cold. Happy Birthday! And what's wrong with cold pizza?!?!!? What else are you gonna eat for breakfast?!?!!? Monical's is a old local favorite....and when you have it you gotta drizzle a little french dressing on the top too...mmmmmm. Thanks to everyone who has passed on birthday wishes here too....looking forward to meeting a few of you this weekend! Bret (playin' with the new smilies) Quote Link to comment
+norbu Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 I don't know, I just can't eat cold pizza....is it a guy/chick thing?? Quote Link to comment
+Planet Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 Everything is wrong with cold pizza!!! I know I'll catch grief for that statement, but it's MY opinion and I'm entitled to it. And now you've gone and made me just a little green in the face with the thought of French dressing on pizza! Pizza, hot and fresh is the way to go. And I like Giuliano's (Amici's) pizza the best. I was going to list my nono's for pizza toppings, but that might start a flame war and it's not about caching, Unless you list your favorite restaurants on www.geodining.com. Quote Link to comment
+Beta Test Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 Happy birthday! That was prety neat! Quote Link to comment
+Pyewacket Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 Happy, friggin mondo, belated birthday, you drunken monkey! And Congrats on #500! Quote Link to comment
+greende Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 Happy Birthday and Happy 500th find. Your family has to be neat letting you solo this one. Hang on to them! Quote Link to comment
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