Numbers

Numbers has been adopted out from Cache Owner Abby the Explorer to Mjs510. The responsibility of cache ownership, maintenance, and possible disappointment of the caching world, should this scrap of paper go missing, is not for the faint of heart.

We mark the first lights of the jubilant holiday season. Not too soon, please. We must still warm our hands and hearts at fall’s flaming bonfire.

Arms held out to catch those who fall, the social safety net reaches from one to the next.

And here in downtown Dayton, we discover the name of our universe.

We pause to mark the joining of the Mad River to the Great Miami. The hardwood forests teaming with game, deep black soil, and bountiful rivers brought peoples of the world pouring into this rich valley.

Where rows of canoes once banked, and thin columns of smoke curled lazily upward from camp fires, superstructures jostle and crowd for a glimpse of the shimmering waters which reflect only the sky. Like the planet itself, Ohio country sways under the weight of railroads, highways, housing developments, apartments, businesses, libraries, schools, stadiums, hospitals, factories, office buildings, and all that modern Two-leggeds need.

Our coordinates return us to a pond full of parking lot, with mountains of stone holding a cache. Somewhere.

Looking up and down and down some more, we wonder why the cache name is Numbers.

Nothing more satisfying than a sudden sweet surprise.