It's uncouth to kiss and tell, but I'm going to anyway. I found a geocache that I can't resist describing here.

Imagine you're following the pointer on the GPS receiver and it leads you to a fenced-in cemetery. Now, there are lots of cemetery hides, both letterbox and geocache, but most of them are discreetly outside the cemetery, right around the border or some such. This one is not; the cache listing mentions that the gates are never locked.

So you go inside the cemetery and continue following the GPS. It leads you to a family plot where there is a large husband-and-wife headstone, one of those things that's wide enough to head two gravesites side-by-side. And in the middle of this elaborate marble headstone, there's a recess cut into the top. The recess has a marble cap on it, and the marble cap has the Groundspeak emblem engraved on it -- the emblem of geocaching.com. You must lift off the marble cap to retrieve the geocache, which is hidden inside the recess in the marble headstone.

And yes, both headstones have names and birth dates but no death dates. And for those of us who have actually met the planters in person at events, the names are familiar.

That is so cool! What a fun idea.... =o)

Rhea

Must say, that is good.

Lnd-Crzr

Those geocachers are nuts! I like it.

I saw a headstone in the shape of an Atlas Rocket once. He just liked them. Why not?

Scarab

That is really cool. I wonder if they bought the headstones for Geocaching 1st, and their death second?

Reminds me of this discussion, but better!

http://www.atlasquest.com/boards/message.html?gMsgId=33770;gThreadId=6671

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Happy cake-day, Kirbert :-)

Reminds me of this discussion, but better!

http://www.atlasquest.com/boards/message.html?gMsgId=33770;gThreadId=6671

And I still stay by that! I'll have more visitors in death than I ever had in life! I'll probably even have the best kept grave in the cemetery!

I have found a letterbox inside a brass tombstone. A brass vase was mounted into it and when you lifted the vase there was a compartment inside the tombstone with the box-- very cool. It was a dead relative of a letterboxer who would have loved the idea in life (but died prior to letterboxing) so it was completely sanctioned by the family.

The recess has a marble cap on it, and the marble cap has the Groundspeak emblem engraved on it -- the emblem of geocaching.com. You must lift off the marble cap to retrieve the geocache, which is hidden inside the recess in the marble headstone.

I think it would be very funny if someone replaced the contents with a bunch of ashes (from a fireplace or something--doesn't have to be the real thing). Imagine the surprise when you open THAT cache! ;o)

That's what I'd do for my grave, at least. Sheeze, leave a boring ol' box in it when there's so much better ideas?!

-- Ryan

Sheeze, leave a boring ol' box in it when there's so much better ideas?!

one of those springy snakes comes to mind.... (but then again I'm a bit warped)
~C~

I think it would be very funny if someone replaced the contents with a bunch of ashes (from a fireplace or something--doesn't have to be the real thing). Imagine the surprise when you open THAT cache! ;o)

Would cachers think the ashes were a trade item? ;-) "T-ashes, L- plastic dog"

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Would cachers think the ashes were a trade item? ;-) "T-ashes, L- plastic dog"

Thanks! Now I have to go clean the coke-spew off my computer!

:)