A Few of My Ideas for PuzzlePiece915

When Erin and I decided to partake in geocaching, there were a few ideas that we threw around that we thought would make it even more interesting for us. Don’t get me wrong, caching is intriguing just the way it is, but we wanted to spice it up a bit from our end. Our first idea was to play off of our caching name, PuzzlePiece915. We thought it would be neat to buy a few puzzles and kind of integrate leaving puzzle pieces behind at the caches that we found. I guess we wanted to make it our calling as some might say. Anyways, so we took these puzzles, built them, and then proceeded to flip them over and write neat quotes on the back of them. Next, we would break the puzzle up into an even amount of pieces. The ultimate goal was to find the ultimate zealous cacher out there and hope that they may take the time to collect our pieces and enjoy what we were trying to do. To be honest, I did not think anyone would really latch onto the idea. No sooner did I get an e-mail from a caching icon around here (Ma n Pa is there caching name), telling me that they solved out puzzle. Sure enough, there was the quote on the next line: “Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.” It was very gratifying to say the least. Not only did someone solve our puzzle, but it happened to be the one with our most favorite quote on it. Moving right along, our other semi-neat idea was to attempt to pick up a different item from each cache. We want to get the widest variety of items instead of zoning in on any specific idea. Erin then labels the items telling us where we found them and who found that specific cache. We do this because now when we want to hide a small or regular cache we are going to use those items as a starting point for swag to put into the cache. They will also be used to refill the caches when needed. We have a bag for each set of 100 finds. I realize how pathetically nerdy this may sound, but in theory it is great to us.