40 on 40 for Life after 40 – Bummer carries us into the soul of Cache Owner Cariboubous, as this tiny cache connects the shores of 39 and 41.
We are on the Broad Street bridge. Here, pushed forward by wagons, carts, and inevitably the Model T, the National Road avoided a watery demise.
At our feet, the Santa Maria sits like Apollo 11, marking a journey which changed the world. Swirling beneath us, the Scioto River carries all birchbark canoes, and flatboats, and canal boats, and steamboats into a distant past.
Upriver, the railroad bridge alone holds its own, still transporting that perfect invention, the train.
On the other side of the river stands City Hall, where the people of this great city come and go, working out the details of Truth, Beauty, Honor, and Love in their community life.
At last our GPS has landed us. Look up, look down, look all around. Pose for silly tourist pictures while you reach high on the lamppost. Ten buses come and go. Everyone is a muggle, and everyone is a searcher; all blend and none ask.
Steady, don’t be cross. Of course it was there, when you looked one more time.
Life on the other side of 40 turns out to be good.
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