Hey Paul...we just moved from Iowa!
I like the cache idea, but for our situation, we don't have friends in our new location yet. Storing things in a planned, but random location I think would be tough in California, just from a population standpoint...a lot more people going a lot more places (I'm thinking about a hidden cache in a remote location). I think here there's a greater likelihood of someone stumbling across the cache and possibly exploiting it.
That being said, I'm going to do some pondering about this and see if I could apply it to our situation.
Hope you're staying dry with the recent flooding!
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