Been on spring break...was recalling the ironic "spring breaks" at Hiram where it would snow. But I can't use those stories anymore because, well, there are two feet of snow in the countryside outside of Moscow and I haven't seen the sun in a week. Spring break indeed. But here's a weird story -- yesterday Paul and I went walking at Hell's Gate State Park (is that not the best name for a park?) and we came across this guy and his three dogs. The dogs were unusual so we struck up a conversation as he explained that the dogs were some rare breed from Hungary. Then the guy revealed that he was "geo hunting," which I at first assumed was rock hunting. Wrong. There is, apparently, this huge worldwide treasure hunt going on. People hide treasures in obscure locations, then leave hints on a website, and it's all confirmed through GPS and some secret network of insiders. The guy said there were two treasures in the park and he'd already found one. He said the "treasure" is usually some sort of silly trinket. He was very intent on finding the second one. Maybe he had trained his rare Hungarian dogs to sniff out trinkets.
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