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Tomorrow is a gift LbNA #11045 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:pale puppy posse
Plant date:Sep 21, 2004
Location:
City:Dowling
County:Barry
State:Michigan
Boxes:3
Found by: pale puppy posse
Last found:Apr 30, 2005
Status:Oa
Last edited:Sep 21, 2004
**** Box 2 is missing and will be replaced *****

These boxes are located in a nature center 1 mile north of Dowling off M-37. Even though it has a Hastings address. Turn west on Cloverdale rd and go 2.5 miles. Your blue trail starts between the Education bldg and the Visitors center. www.cedarcreekinstitute.org
I saw whitetail deer, wild turkey, a few hawks and tons of chipmunks, squirrels and birds. Really nice area. This is about a 2.5 mile hike but pretty easy terrain.
NOTE: THE NATURE TRAILS ARE CLOSED DURING FIREARM HUNTING SEASON NOV. 15TH THRU NOV. 30TH

If your time on earth was short, what would you do?

I went skydiving, I went rocky mountain climbing,
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu.
I'd love deeper and I spoke sweeter and I'd watch that
Eagle as it was flying. Cuz tomorrow is a gift and you have
eternity to think about what you'd do with it.. what did you do with it?

On your hike remember green does not mean go. Stay true until you come to a decision that has to be made. Then change your spectrum and go with a hue of red. This is the easy trail so your clues will be easy too. Find an arrow with a place to rest your bones. Sit down and turn around your prize is located here.

Then continue on till it gets really confusing. Left is right and right is wrong, no wait, reverse that. Now down a hill and up again. Find an arrow and take 27 paces, turn left and take 7 paces and you are there. Oh wait this looks like someones home better move on another 15 steps. Follow this object in the direction from which you first began, take 2 steps back towards the path and turn right. Here I am but be careful someone has gotten burnt here.

Continue on till you find the yellow brick road. Here you go again down a hill, a red maple and a flowering dogwood, then sugar maple and American elm. Back to a field of flowers to a white ash. Back up a bit and turn left. You will find a big dead tree full of honey but don't linger long or you will end up running past a grand daddy of sorts and some quartz. It can't tell time but it can tell you a secret.

Take the right arm of the "Y" to find your way back to were you started.

I would like dedicate the first box to my mother who is a breast cancer survivor
The second box is dedicated to my Marine son who just return home from Iraq
The third box is dedicated to my best friend, Mikey, who I lost to pancreatic cancer.

Good Luck and Happy hunting

If you liked these boxes and this awesome nature area, watch for more boxes to be placed on the trails I've missed very soon!