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room filled with old trinkets and a wall of barbed wire from the 1800's. Hearing a noise behind her she turned and saw her mom carrying a large metal box to the counter.
"Wow, Mom. What cha got there?" Jennifer moved closer to look at the box.
"I just received this today. There's supposed to be a gold coin minted at the turn of the century. Yeah, it's a large box for something so small. But there's no coin just a bunch of other stuff." She was looking around for her paper.

"I'm going to the library with Tim to start work on our geography project. We're going geocaching!" Jennifer looked at her mom for a response. "We'll be a little late."
Absently, her mother looked up and stared at her daughter. "Oh, oh fine. Dad will be late too."

Jennifer left the dimly lit room out into a sunny afternoon. She quickly walked to the Sinclair. Opening the door, she saw Tracy and Roland talking with the cashier. Jennifer walked to the cooler pulled out a few sodas and walked around the isles waiting for her turn.
"Where did you see him? What was he doing?" Jennifer heard Tracey say to Pete "the Pike".
The cashier looked at her and said, "I once lost a cooler on the river and found it a few days later about ten miles down stream. You don't know how far things can go when the river is high." Peter "the Pike" Holster handed change back with one hand while taking a drink from a green dirty coffee mug with a shiny lid.
Jennifer walked up to the counter pulled a five out of her wallet and waited for change.
"We're you fishing when you lost your cooler?" Jennifer looked at "the Pike". He eyed her.
"Yeah," he said bluntly. "What's it to you?"
"Oh I was just trying to calculate how fast the river was going to how far it would have gotten. That's all."
"You don't believe me?"
"I didn't say that. I'm just always doing calculations in my head." Jennifer was trying to disarm him.
He gave her back the change. She counted it and left the store.

"Sorry I took so long. I went to get something to drink." Jennifer plopped the pop on the table next to Tim in the Library.
"I think I have it all figured out. All we need is a GPS unit. But I don't have one or know anyone who does."
"Well that's just great!" Jennifer said with a sigh. "How are we going to find the treasure?"
"It's not really a treasure." Tim looked at a book and pointed at a picture on the page. "It's just a box with stuff that people leave when they find it. They write their names on a log, take something from the box, and then leave something

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