Ben DiBello - Class of 2019
On a Sunday over February Break this
year, I was bored and cleaning my room to occupy myself when I found my old
handheld GPS. I was looking through the GPS to see if anything may have been
saved, when I remembered my GPS could locate geocaches*. Using my GPS, I found
a geocache only an hour’s walk away. Having not much else to do, I packed a few
items in my bag and headed out.
After walking for about an hour, my GPS
began leading me down a trail somewhere by the town wharf. After walking down
the trail for close to ten minutes, I found a clearing with a big rock with
some plaque on it, and the GPS said the geocache was close. After about twenty
minutes of searching, I found an opened Tupperware container that wasn’t in the
spot indicated by the GPS. There were a few items strewn around the container,
including a plastic top and a notebook with names presumably written inside,
but the pages were too wet to be able to tell. I put the items back into the
container and buried it. Of course, at that moment, my GPS died. I turned
around to go back on the trail, but the trail isn’t there. I must have walked a
lot farther than I thought when looking for the geocache, so I spent a little
more time trying to find the trail. After a few minutes, I gave up and walked
in the direction I thought I came from.
After even more walking, I found a
group of huge stone buildings in a field. More than anything, I was confused
because I knew I must have been near the town wharf but I have never seen these
buildings before. I began walking around these buildings to see if I could find
anyone, but no one was around. I ended up coming across these two nuns, and I
realized I came out at the Sisters of Notre Dame on Jeffrey's Neck Road. To
escape any possible embarrassment this may have brought, I tried my best to avoid
getting caught while I found the exit. Thankfully, I found the exit without
getting caught, but I must have spent over three hours geocaching and getting
lost.
*Geocaches are containers of objects
that people bury/hide at random locations whose coordinates are then posted online. These geocaches can be filled with anything, but the general rule is that you take one item to leave another, and when you find the geocache, you sign your name in the notebook.
