Oh Dan - this post made me melt. I have been there from year #1 with the Team and can not make it this year! I will donate though ~ AND ~ Ralph is registerd for the Survivor Lap!!!

What does Relay mean to me - well, it means a lot! The year I started Geocaching just less that 3 months after my first find - my husband was diagnosed with colon cancer. So what? Well, it was being able to go out and find a cache on a break from visiting him at the hospital, being able to go find a cache while he recovered, being able to find caches together after which made a difference. That and many, many friends met along the way.

Relay allows me to give back a very small portion of the support I have felt. No - I can't walk all night - but I can ask friends to give me a buck or two for the cause. I can sew a quilt square, I can buy some pink rubber duckies to sell, I can donate a dollar or two myself.............and it all helps.

So - although I am not a team member this year - won't you PLEASE come walk just one lap with Ralph and me??? He is signed up - and all going well will be there to walk a lap with me as a survivor this year!

And if you can't...........isn't that lap worth just a $10 donation to the Maine Geocaching Team???? Please consider helping them make goal and keep (believe it or not) among the top winning teams in the Hancock County Relay!

SO - let's all remember...............the many, many Geocachers and their families who have been afflicted or touched by this disease. There are many Relays but please give.

Lastly - I will be relisting a Gecoin on Ebay - donated by MaineFamily specifically for our Team - please consider bidding and bringing this home to Maine! Go Relay Team 2011!