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This book is dedicated to more than a million people. It’s to all those who hide caches in interesting places, create odd containers, and share their little known favorite quirky things around the world with the rest of us. How would I know about the giant cow at the California/Nevada border, about how mining was done in the early 1920’s, or where to buy the best pizza in a town of 30 without geocachers pointing the way through their little, hidden containers? How would I know that a pool a hundred feet down from a wire platform was the home to a fish that only lives in that one pool? I followed a geocache description there! I even sat in a fake electric chair, just because of geocachers.

Then there’s the finders, the people who search through rain, snow, sleet and hail in the dark of night and then post interesting stories about their adventures... and misadventures.

I can’t leave out the geocachers at Groundspeak Inc., owners of geocaching.com, and all the reviewers, the lackeys who travel from event to event, and Signal the Frog who attends mega events just to say “hi!” or rather… wave hi. Signal doesn’t speak. I’ve discovered Signal. Have you? Or the can of beans… have you discovered the can of beans?

Anyway… here’s to all you geocachers who walk, ride, paddle and fly to find elusive boxes hidden in weird places and keep the hobby, obsession, addiction alive.

And finally to my husband, best friend and geocaching buddy TSPI who goes with me on almost every hunt. May we find more lookout towers, weird little fish, and tunnels of mice. Maybe someday we will actually see a bat! So many tunnels, so few bats.

Cache on!