Milestones

As we approach our 500th cache find a short word on milestones seems appropriate.

I wasn't one to worry about numbers initially, in fact our 100th find would have been at a motorway services had we managed to find the exit sliproad. As it happened there was no available exit on this particular junction and instead we landed at "Demandez la clé" for our 100th find. After this I decided to make each cache find at the one hundred mark an unusual and memorable find. For number 200 we set out on a cold, damp New Year's Day to find a sorrowful multi -cache at Oradure sur Glane. We had visited this village before but this new reason for being here didn't make it any less sombre.

At 300 we made our way down to the South coast to find our first webcam cache at Banyul-sur-mer. It was a little tricky liasing with the team back home in order to get the webshot but we did it in the end. Milestone number 400 was an Earthcache in les Roches Enchantées series by Trapeur24. It led on from a treck into the depths of a cave which remains one of the scout's favourite caches.

As I write this we have 499 finds. Where the next one will be I don't yet know but I'm sure it will be a momentous occasion.