Long story short the couch and arm chair are on order, and my new man-chair is in the back of the van waiting to be brought into the house.
All this means two things a) I don't need to look at any more couches, and b) I didn't have time to go for my planned hike. So after lunch I executed "Plan B" (cause when you are a geocacher, nothing sounds more official than a Plan B), and headed off to do a cache in Morganton NC (just 20 minutes down the road) called "Coimetrophobia or Mappers Delight" (GC19N2C).
The cache is a 5 part puzzle cache that takes the cacher to 4 cemeteries to gather information, and the final is just off another cemetery.
The cache description recommended marking each stage on a map, as a symbol will be revealed by connecting the dots. I didn't have a paper map of the area, so I brought my laptop along in the van and used custom Google Maps to mark each stage. This mapping isn't actually required, but I am glad I did it. I was able to use satellite view to sanity check each stage as I could confirm it brought me to another cemetery. I was also able to detect an error I made calculating the final coordinates as my first calculation ended up with coordinates that didn't match the pattern (turns out I made a mistake when gathering the information I needed). Ain't technology awesome?
Once I grabbed the final, I took the opportunity to grab a few more caches in the area that I was unable to get to previously due to high muggle activity. I ended up with 4 finds out of 5 for the day.
Cemeteries are always interesting to walk through as there is so much history. During my cemetery tour, I took a bunch of pictures. I'll leave you with a sample of my day.
This is the grave of a Revolutionary War soldier by the name of John Duckworth. Don't see that every day.