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“it gets kids off the damn sofa.”

Part of the attraction is the element of mystery, too. These modern day Nancy Drews don’t have to be professional detectives to solve a case.

“I think if you ever liked hunting treasure when you were a kid or finding something, it really speaks to that part of you,” says Martin Lollar, a six-year geocaching veteran better known as BriarBoy on geocaching.com — the website where players post cache challenges.

It’s a way to be a tourist in your own neighborhood and a local in unknown environments. Through geocaching in Dallas, Darbe encountered Bonnie and Clyde’s graves and discovered an unfinished park under the intersection of Central Expressway and LBJ.

“[Geocaching] takes you to cool spots that even if you’ve lived here your whole life, you never knew existed,” says Darbe, geocaching alias kd&prettierhalf. The first time Darbe and his wife went geocaching with their son’s GPS device, “we had no idea what we were doing. That was almost 20,000 caches ago.”

Travelers can bypass traditional tourist traps by searching for local caches. While visiting the Pacific Northwest, Lollar and Paulette Deutman (or GeoMojoGirl) found a cache that took them to an open grassy area overlooking the Columbia Gorge in time to watch the sun set.

“We never would have found that if we hadn’t been geocaching and someone hadn’t recommended that,” Paulette Deutman says.

Darbe has found caches in all 50 US states and 10 Canadian provinces.

“It is the most diverse group of people you have ever met in your life,” Darbe says. “We know a guy who’s a full-fledged doctor. We know a guy who’s a baggage handler at DFW airport. We know numerous police officers, numerous teachers and ages ranging everything from 5 to 90.”

“If people look at it from the outside, we’re very loose knit and unorganized, and that’s a good thing, but among ourselves we’re very supportive,” says Jack Lowry, who is better known as coinpopper and lives off Garland Road. “I had both knees replaced, and it’s hard for me to want to get out and walk. [Geocaching] keeps me from vegetating.”

“For me, its something that we do together. It’s our little thing that’s part of our relationship.”

Each cache is different,, and Lowry, who has found more than 7,000 caches, says he remembers the ones he finds pretty well. As he takes and replaces trinkets, or signs logbooks, he gathers experiences and friendships.

“This is my cache of memories, if you will,” Lowry says. “These are just things I remember.”

Geocachers not only build relationships through the game; they also strengthen existing ones.

“For me, its something that we do together,” Paulette Deutman says of her relationship with Lollar. “It’s our little thing that’s part of our relationship.” —Lauri Valerio

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LAKEHILL PREPARATORY SCHOOL

Leading to Success. 2720 Hillside Dr., Dallas 75214 / 214.826.2931 / lakehillprep. org

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LAKESIDE BAPTIST / 9150 Garland Rd / 214.324.1425

Worship — 8:30 am Classic & 11:00 am Contemporary

Pastor Jeff Donnell / www.lbcdallas.com

PARK CITIES BAPTIST CHURCH / 3933 Northwest Pky / pcbc.org

All services & Bible Study 9:15 & 10:45. Trad. & Blended (Sanctuary), Contemporary (Great Hall), Amigos de Dios (Gym) / 214.860.1500

WILSHIRE BAPTIST / 4316 Abrams / 214.452.3100

Pastor George A. Mason Ph.D. / Worship 8:30 & 11:00am

Bible Study 9:40 am / www.wilshirebc.org

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CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH / 4711 Westside Drive / 214.526.7291

Sunday Worship 11:00 am ./ Sunday School 9:45am

Wed. Bible Study 5:00 pm./ www.cccdt.org / ALL are welcome

E AST DALLAS CHRISTIAN CHURCH / 629 N. Peak Street / 214.824.8185

Sunday School 9:30 am / THE TABLE Worship Gathering 9:30 am

Worship 8:30 & 10:50 am / Rev. Deborah Morgan / www.edcc.org

HIGHLANDS CHRISTIAN CHURCH (Lake Highlands) 9949 McCree Rd. 214-348-2805 / www.highlandschristianchurch.com

Sundays: School 9:45 am / Worship 11:00 am / Rev. Paul Carpenter

Eckankar

HU CHANT CLASS / Learn to chant HU. Benefits: Study dreams, past lives, Soul Travel, expand awareness, experience divine love Mar. 14, 6:30 pm / Lakewood Library / meetup.com/Eckankar-Dallas

L Utheran

CENTRAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, ELCA / 1000 Easton Road

Sunday School for all ages 9:00 am / Worship Service 10:30 am

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Sunday Worship Service 10:30 am / Call for class schedule. 214.821.5929 / www.dallaslutheran.org

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L AKE HIGHLANDS UmC / 9015 Plano Rd. / 214.348.6600 / lhumc.com

Sunday Morning: 9:30 am Sunday School / 10:30 am Coffee

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Worship Sundays, 9:30 and 11:00 am / 5200 Bryan Street 214.823.9929 / www.mungerplacechurch.org

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1450 Oldgate Lane / 214.324.3661

Sunday Worship 10:50 am / Rev. George Fisk

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DWELLING PLACE CHURCH / Being the church in every day life experiences / Sundays at 10:30am / www.dpclife.com

Magnolia Theater / 3699 McKinney Ave. / 469.438.5405

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KING’S PARISH A SSoCIATE REfoRmED PRESBy TERIAN CHURCH kingsparish.com / Rev. David Winburne / Worship at 10:00 am

Meets at Ridgewood Park Rec Center / 469.600.3303

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9555 N. Central Expwy. / www.northparkpres.org

Pastor: Rev. Brent Barry / 8:30 & 11:00 am Sunday Services

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8:30 & 11:00 am / Church School 9:30 am / Childcare provided.

ST. ANDREW ’S PRESBy TERIAN / Skillman & Monticello Rev. Rob Leischner. / www.standrewsdallas.org

214.821.9989 / Sunday School 9:30 am, Worship 10:45 am

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UNIT y of DALLAS / A Positive Path For Spiritual Living

6525 Forest Lane, Dallas, TX 75230 / 972-233-7106 / UnityDallas.org

Sunday services: 9:00 am & 11:00 am