Posted: 1/24/2009 5:24:57 PM EDT
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have any of yall ever wanten to leave a little momento of an adventure at a place you went to? I was on a cross country trip and me and some buddies burried a skoal can with some little momentoes a mile or so out in the badlands. we just left a note with some coins and a picture. What kind of stuff do you think would be interesting to leave for future generations to uncover? Where would you leave it?
hodges. |
| I hide and seek things often. Geocaching is a good reason to be out in the woods, and gives you a destination when you want to go for a hike, but aren't sure where you want to go. I always try to leave a little something personally interesting to me, or a picture of the last place I visited. I have left things out in the woods that I have never posted the location of, with a date and discription of why it was left there. |
I burried a coffee can w/ some pennies and a few other things in my parents side lot when I was about 8 or 10. It's been 30 years now. This reminds me I should probably bring the metal detector and see if I can find it next time I visit after the snow melts. Something tells me there isn't much left of the can anymore.
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I just remodeled my kitchen and found a news paper which mentioned President John F Kennedy's position on some social bill for the poor. I think I'll leave a 8 1/2" by 11" copy of my back side for the next remodeller to find! Thats weird. We remodeled our basement and I found a paper that had headlines about Kennedy also. I couldnt make out much of it because whoever put it there had used it to fill a hole in the plaster then it was plastered over so the wall looked intact. |
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that reminds me... my church did some mission work in louisiana after katrina and we all left notes under the tar paper and dry wall, just good luck and where we were all fun. the lady had a huge aquarium with a bunch of neat lookin fish that survived, i think the waterline was at 6-7 feet it was crazy.
-hodges |
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There's about a half dozen homes in my neighborhood that have my son's and my name scratched in the concrete foundations. When my son a couple months to a year old or so, several houses were under construction and we would go visit them and I would write our names in the still-wet concrete. Since they're buried under 2-3 feet of dirt, I doubt anyone will ever see them.
Merlin |
| I remember burying a coffee can at the folks house when I was around 10 years old, but what I can't remember is what I put in it and also if I went back and dug it up while I was still young. I have a general idea of where I buried it, so maybe one day I should go looking..... |
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I took a pickle jar and put a picture of myself, a note and some coins in it back when I was about 12. I sealed the lid with silicone sealer and buried it about 18 inches down along the fence in our backyard.
That was in 1975. If the lid hasn't rusted out (unlikely) the stuff inside should be fairly intact. I wouldn't know how to approach the current resident about going in their yard and digging a hole. 
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When I built the staircase ballasters of my house, I made about ten mini time capsules.
I put news papers, a note, empty pop bottles and a pic of my family in a few. By the time I finished putting the caps on those boxes (about 6x8x30 something inches I.D.), I was running out of stuff to put in them - broken umbrella went in the last one. I work in construction and did a project at a frito-lay plant in Chamblee Ga many years ago. We were tearing down an old wall and found some "time capsules" put in there during the 40's. Neat stuff. Old pepsi bottles, a stack of old Frit-atos bags that were never used, newspapers (one with an article about Joan Crawford marrying the Pepsi CEO), etc OK maybe it was just trash but it was neat to see. Gave me the same wonder I get from holding an old milsrup rifle. |