Harry`s son
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Woohoo! My first ever Wherigo! And a bit of an epic. Wherigos had barely crossed my radar in the nearly three years since I started caching, but I'm starting to run out of traditionals in Edinburgh, and am seeing lots of multis and a few less mysteries, all of which I'm slowly addressing, and it felt like I'd wound the clock back to February 2009 as I pressed the "Wherigo" button on my GPS.
I started the tutorial, but didn't get too far with it as another cache intervened, so decided to go to Harrison Park to see what I could achieve. Well nothing to start off with, until I got a nudge from marmal (this seems to be happening a lot!) and away I went.
Things went very well and I kept alive, but was beaten by the dark, so on liaising with marmal, discovered he'd got to much the same stage and we arranged to go together for a further exploration.
It was a grand day - nippy, but sunny - and we to-ed and fro-ed around the place feeling Brave and Noble. I ventured towards a place I needed to be and got the giggles as there was a Blue Meanie sitting on a bench just right by it. He must have wondered what on earth I was doing as I kept returning, and then marmal joined in. But we both reckoned he should have work to do, so didn't bother about him for too long.
Then I was hailed by a young girl:
"Excuse me - do you like gnomes?"
"Gnomes?!"
"No - cloves"
"You mean the things you eat?"
"Aye"
"Not really"
"We have some clove sweeties and don't really like them"
"Ach - you're all right, thanks."
Perhaps they'd have helped us find the missing link, but it eluded us, and eventually, having tried what we reckoned were all the options, time was against us again and we called it a day.
Third time lucky today. We had our master plan and put it into action.
BIG FAT FAIL and two puffing cachers.
Time for a PAF. Confirmation came through that we'd done exactly the right thing (as we did last time too).
Try again.
Puff puff puff puff *trip over skeleton* gasp puff gasp.
SUCCESS!
And with that, my first Wherigo comes to a happy conclusion.
The invoice for my cardiac treatment will follow shortly.