Imagine my surprise when last week I got an email from Michelle telling me that they were going to be visiting her uncle at the lake, and asking if I'd be available to meet? Hell yeah! Their timing couldn't have been better since we were still at the lake after the 4th of July holiday.
We decided to take our pontoon boats and meet on the lake to grab the cache Lonely by the Shore. At the appointed time we both pulled up within minutes of each other and scrambled to shore, making introductions. Then we headed up the beach towards the cache location and Crockett made short work of finding it. Here I am with Uncle Jack, Crockett and Chris....
And here we are again with Michelle joining us....
We sat under the tree and chatted like old friends for almost an hour, laughing and telling stories. I've never had time fly by so quickly. I've found in general that most geocachers are friendly and outgoing but these people here went above and beyond. I told Michelle that I just felt an instant friendship with them. Do you ever meet people and just know that you're going to get along? That's how I felt. I will be hard pressed to find a nicer bunch of people.
All too quickly our time grew to a close, but I have a feeling we'll try to do something together the next time we're all at the lake. In the meantime, Michelle has promised that she's going to do a guest post for me sharing their recent trip to Hawaii and the geocaches they did there, as well as some of the fun things they did - like swim with sea turtles! Michelle, I'm going to hold you to that post.
Geocaching is wonderful for the places it takes you and for the things you will see. But for me, it's the people I meet and the friendships I've made that mean so much more. Until we meet again - Happy caching!
