Listen:
Mr. LeadMagnet was a geocacher who was unemployed for some time after coming to the UK. While that meant that Mr. LeadMagnet's bank account was steadily decreasing, it also meant that he had lots of free time to do things that made him happy.
One of the things Mr. LeadMagnet liked to do was wake up early on Monday mornings and drink a large cup of hot coffee while reading a good book on the sofa. A sofa was a type of large soft chair that could seat several people. Here is what Mr. LeadMagnet's sofa looked like:
One day, Mr. LeadMagnet decided he shouldn't spend all his time sitting and reading and drinking hot coffee, so he decided to find a job. He looked on the Internet and in the local newspapers, and started sending out his CV to companies around town. A CV was a collection of papers that could quickly tell someone what you knew and what you had done without them having to meet you in person. CV was actually short for curriculum vitae, which was a Latin word. Mr. LeadMagnet's CV looked like this:
One of the companies that had received a copy of Mr. LeadMagnet's CV telephoned him and told him they liked his CV, and thought he was the Man For the Job. And so Mr. LeadMagnet agreed that he would go and work for this company, and in exchange they would give him money. Because money is important to a lot of people around the world, there are lots of different symbols to represent it. Some of them look like this:
Mr. LeadMagnet was proud that he was the Man For the Job. He decided to celebrate by filling a container with toys and gifts and hiding it somewhere for his friends to find using their GPS receivers. A GPS receiver was a small device that could tell people where they were located on the planet. Mr. LeadMagnet's GPS receiver looked like this:
So Mr. LeadMagnet didn't spend his Monday mornings sitting on the sofa and drinking hot coffee and reading anymore. Now he traveled from his home to his new company, where he worked. On the first day of his new job, as Mr. LeadMagnet was leaving for work, this is what he thought to himself:
This thought made Mr. LeadMagnet happy, because now he had something exciting to do. And he knew that, now and then, he'd still get to sit on his sofa, read a good book and drink some hot coffee.
ETC.
In order to find the specific location of the cache, you'll need to do the following:
- Identify the work of American literature whose style was mimicked for the above story, and note its (better known) title.
- Take the first word from the title and convert each of its letters into numbers.
- String these numbers together, side by side, to form a 13-digit number: 'ABCDEFGHIJKLM'.
- The cache can be found at:
N 52 (ABCDEFG - 2172927)
E 000 (HIJKLM - 602056)
As with all my puzzle caches, please feel free to email (via my geocaching.com profile) if you want to confirm the coordinates of the cache or parking spot before you travel -- or use the geochecker below.