Quoting Shakespeare
A Kansas Heartland Geocache
When you open up a fortune cookie, what does the piece of paper say that your fortune is? For years, I would open up a fortune cookie, take out the paper and stare at it for a few seconds. When someone asked me what it said, I would always reply, "I don't know, something about 'Beware the Ides of March', whatever that means." For those who were educated enough, they might get caught off guard and ask with a bit of worried shock to see the piece of paper for themselves. It's just a joke.
One day, I was eating Chinese food with my daughter and I did the fortune cookie thing, just out of habit. She didn't understand and asked me about the meaning of my joke. So I explained it to her. "Beware the Ides of March" is a very famous quote from Julius Caesar, a play by William Shakespeare. In the play, a fortune teller, or soothsayer, warns Caesar to beware the Ides of March. He brushes off the prophesy. The Ides of March is the half-way point through March, being March 15. The fortune teller was warning Caesar about the day that he was going to be assassinated, March 15, 44 BC. So if you know that, then it makes for a good joke when related with the fortune cookie.
Some time (months or years, I don't remember) after that explanation, my daughter had some exciting news to tell me. During a scholars bowl competition at school, the question came up: "What play has the quote, 'Beware the Ides of ...'", and she immediately buzzed in with the correct answer. She was a sophomore on the varsity team and the seniors asked her, "How did you know that?! You haven't even had Senior English yet!" I was proud of her.
To find the geocache, you need to go to the following coordinates:
14 S 0652549
4115574
A word of caution with puzzle-caches. When posting your log, do not include spoiler answers in your log, lest you risk the unfortunate deletion of your valuable log. It is such a sad tragedy when an inappropriate log brings upon the inevitable destruction of itself.
You are looking for a lock-and-lock. Container used to be a black ammo box with a cantuland-geocache-logo painted on the sides. Original contents included a Guide to Geocaching, a Sacagawea gold dollar coin, a Kansas quarter, a Lewis-and-Clark edition nickel, one of those new-Lincoln-image-on-the-back pennies, an old wheat penny, and lots of other miscellaneous trade items.
Congratulations to both frog4peace and crossmage for being First To Find!
See waypoint GCQCJD for the next Heartland Geocache.
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- Make the fair trade.
- Log your visit.
- Leave the site better than you found it.
- Protect the environment — always.
- Educate those around you.
- Find another cache!
Good luck, and may all your cache dreams come true.
—cantuland
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