The Adoption of Our First Hidden Cache

Since Erin and I are only here in Bloomington-Normal only to go to school we try to do as much caching as possible. This way when we move back to our homes we will feel successful in what we accomplished while being at school. Also, since a lot of our caching occurs down here, we decided to hide a cache in the beginning of last fall’s semester. It was going to be our first hide and we wanted it to be in a place that we had cached a lot. It only made sense to do it that way at the time. However, now we are coming up to a rather large dilemma about to be on our hands come the beginning of May. We will both be moving back home for good with not much of a reason to frequent the Bloomington-Normal area very often. This is going to pose an obvious problem in that we are going to be unable to check on our cache and keep up with it. Our first thought was that we may have to archive a cache that is not even a year old. Right away I was against it but at the time I was unsure of what else we may do. After thinking about it and looking around, now I am fairly certain that we are going to look for a fellow cacher in the area to adopt it. That way we know it will be taken care of and still be out there for other cachers to find. It is our first cache and naturally we want it to last as long as possible. It is our hope that within the next few months we will be able to convince one of our caching peers to adopt our cache and take care of it like their own. There is high hopes for this cache and they do not stop with us moving back home.