We just started geocaching a few months back. In the interim, one of us has had surgery, the weather hasn't cooperated, and spring yard chores took priority. We did manage to squeeze in one cache search, and it was certainly a memorable experience - both the hunt for the cache and what we experienced along the way.

Both of us being in our early sixties, we don't move too fast, and when we look for the cache or micros, we do a lot of it standing up and poking around with our walking sticks. We were at the sight of the third micro of a multi-cache laid out along a greenbelt in a residential area. The GPSr had led us to a large sagebrush-like bush just off the bicycle path. The bush was surrounded by decorative bark and a few rocks. It was clearly the place where the micro was hidden. But there was a lot of bark that it could be under.

The search had been going for several minutes when I glanced down the walk and noticed a woman pushing a baby stroller behind a five-year-old boy on a small bike equipped with training wheels.

The boy hollered at us as he approached "Are you ge-o-cach-ing?" Not the usual question from a five-year-old!

We responded that we were, indeed, geocaching.It was only on our way home that the real impact and importance of what we had witnessed hit me.

He responded with "Want to know where the canister is?"

His mother had caught up with him by then and quickly stepped in, suggesting to her son that maybe he should just offer us a clue if we wanted it. He did. We accepted the offer, and he told us, "It's on the other side of the bush."

(It cut down our search time by half but certainly did not give away the location.)

As they were leaving, his mother quietly said to her son, "Tell them the team you're on."

The boy beamed and announced very proudly "We are Team Indiana Jones."

Suddenly, it all clicked together as I mentally recalled that the owner of the cache was none other than Team Indiana Jones. Here was a family working with their kids on activities that are both fun and educational. No doubt that these children will be a credit to their community and make their parents justifiably proud.

It was only on our way home that the real impact and importance of what we had witnessed hit me. That happened, about a mile from the cache site, as we passed the Columbine High School.