Who IS buried in Wayne's Tomb?

One of the great thing about living in this area is the history.  Philadelphia and the surrounding area played an important role both during and after the Revolutionary War, and many famous historical folks from that era have local ties.

On lunch break today I found my first Virtual cache - Who's Buried in Wayne's Tomb(s)?  A 10 minute drive from work got me to the St. David's Episcopal Church in Radnor, where Revolutionary War General "Mad Anthony" Wayne is buried... sort of.

The coordinates got me to the church, and then I spent a few minutes wandering around until I found the grave.  Seeing as you need to take a picture of yourself at the grave in order to get credit for the find, and the cache logs are full of these pictures, I knew what I was looking for.

The grave, and my hand holding my Garmin.

I love caches with a little bit of history to them, so I was as giddy as a schoolgirl while looking for this one.

If you're in the area, I highly recommend checking this one out.  It's a quick find at a beautiful location with a nice bit of history thrown in for good measure.

Update on the Travel Bug

I have to say that watching Jack's Traveling Purple Dice has been both fascinating and stressful.  The second person who had it visited a bunch of caches in NJ and then placed it in a cache in an area that I'm very familiar with.  I was half tempted to swing by and pick it up, but my father decided he wanted to get it and move it to a bug hotel that he has used in the past.

Sure enough, when he went there, the bug was missing.  I figured that this might happen, but Jack was pretty upset when I broke the news to him.  Not crying upset or anything that dramatic, just disappointed.

Imagine my surprise yesterday when I get a text message from my watch list saying that someone logged the TB!  Apparently someone had picked it up over a month ago and never logged it, so now they are planning on moving it around again.  Jack was thrilled, but I'm trying to play it down a bit as I am beginning to understand that many trackables don't survive long in the wild.

I have managed to find some Travel Bugs, Geocoins, and the like while out caching, and it's always fun to bring them along for visits until I find a home.  I've noticed that many people don't really follow the goals... but unless you print the goal on a tag and attach it, you may never really know what the goal is.  I'm planning on getting some trackables in the next few weeks, so I'll see if I can develop a way to come up with a goal and securely attach it.

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