The Cacheland Conspiracy (The Geocaching Mystery Series, #1) by Dan DeKoning

Author:Dan DeKoning
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Geocaching, Treasure Hunting, Competition, Arizona
Publisher: Dan DeKoning
Published: 2024-03-04T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

AT ELEVEN O’CLOCK, Allie and Drake left the schoolhouse and headed to the church. Of the thirty-five puzzles they completed, they only needed to get two answers checked. Allie sat in the last pew while Drake got in line behind three other teams and waited for his turn. Ten minutes later, they had a plan plotted and were on their way.

“I don’t believe we can catch up with the red team,” Allie said.

“I agree, considering we’re almost two hours behind them. The best we can do is run into them with pure luck. In the meantime, we’ll need to do our best to get these caches.”

“I’ve got an idea. Why don’t we radio T.R. and have her find out where the red team is? Then we could go straight to their location and see what they’re up to?”

Drake veered the UTV around a tumbling tumbleweed and got back on course. “Good idea, except for two things. First, the radio is on an open channel, so everyone would hear what we were up to, including the red team. And second, we would seem suspicious to Bruce and Andy if we checked in, having found only a dozen caches over the course of a whole day. No, we need to keep to the plan. Besides, have you forgotten we have fifty grand on the line?”

Allie didn’t answer, and instead studied her map. As they had completed puzzles, Drake entered the corrected coordinates for each one into their GPS. Along with that task, he made a small mark on the paper map where the general area of the cache was. Once Allie finished solving puzzles and Drake drew two lines, which divided the map into a grid of four squares. They were currently on route to the southeast corner of the grid, which had eleven caches within it. From there, the plan was to go to the southwest, the northwest, and finally finish with the northeast, which only held four caches.

“How close are we?” Drake asked.

Allie checked her GPS. “Three tenths of a mile dead ahead.”

Drake slowed the UTV to go over a small ditch. Although he barely crawled over the obstruction, the jostle was enough to cause a bolt of pain to run through Allie’s leg. In reflex, she inhaled sharply and grabbed her knee. Once Drake was back on solid ground, he parked the UTV.

“Okay, no lies. Are you going to be okay today to do this?”

Allie rolled her eyes. “Of course. I’ll be fine. I simply wasn’t expecting that big lurch.”

“Big lurch? We slinked through something only three times the size of an average sidewalk crack. Hey, if you can’t cache today, say the word and we’ll go back to the hotel and spend the day by the pool. I’d be fine with that, really.”

Allie shook her head. “No. If we did that, we’d have no chance at the money. Keep going.”

“Allie, the money doesn’t matter if it means you’re going to be in pain all day.”

Allie looked straight ahead and pointed in the general direction of the cache.

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