One recent example involved walking to a landing on a stairway between two floors of a parking building at a shopping mall, aligning yourself by looking out a window that was about 10 feet above the floor and then looking down. When looking down you could see a tiny little overhang at the floor level -- a space between floor and wall. In that space, hanging on velcro, was the cache which consisted of an Altoids container.
The GPS merely brought you to a spot close to that mezzanine. We searched at ground level all about the stairway, both inside and outside the building before we recited one of the clues again, "Not top, not bottom, look out window and then look down. That "Not top, not bottom" comment led to our closely examining the landing between floors.
Some caches are as small as this or smaller and only contain a rolled paper logbook to record your visit. Some, as previously shown in earlier episodes of this blog are truly large and have stuff inside for trading. Jeep Corp. has an ongoing contest in which they circulated 5000 little die-cast Jeep cars. If you are lucky enough to find one somewhere, you log your visit on the special Jeep site and are put in the running for one of a number of real Jeeps that the Corp. is giving away. When you find one of the Jeeps you then give it away again by placing it in another geocache somewhere else.
We retrieved one of them from a geocache near the RV Resort in which we are spending the winter. It's cute enough that I don't want to give it away but when you take it you are agreeing to do just that.
We have now found about 30 of these hidden treasure spots and are looking forward to finding many more.
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