You’ll find it in the end.

If only every Cache Owner made this promise. CO Shell Leavers have put their reputation on the line, assuring us that indeed we will.

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En route on I-71 northbound, we are ever grateful for ODOT’s rest for the weary, and the caretakers who maintain these traveler relief stations.

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Inside the rest stop, an abrupt reminder of those who see human beings as the most lucrative of trading commodities, whether for labor, exploitation, consumer marketing, addictions, data collection, or experimentation. Fueled by the colossal, insatiable addictions of wealth and power, these traffickers seem to feel okay about capitalizing on other people’s misery.

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Foreboding skies welcome us to Cleveland.

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We circle through town and strike another oil well for human profiteering.

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Our GPS pilots us to Lakeview Cemetery, where the expression of the individual soul breaks forth in stone.

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With a nod to the Cleveland years, the Rockefeller plot holds John D. Sr. Here lies the wealthiest American of all time, who repaid consumer dependence on his oil refineries by becoming the first billionaire in the nation.

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He believed that business growth depended on the survival of the fittest. Those who could best direct the market toward the next possession, diversion, convenience, or invention deserved to win.

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People leave pennies on the Father of Gasoline’s grave. It seems that gas prices have taken everything else.

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The cache calls us to a fence, which appears to be protecting a ravine.

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When you find it in the end, hold on.