May 16, 2017

  • Caching Counties

    I've spent the past five days recovering from an eleven day road trip with my friend Maxine. This was a geocaching road trip and I took the place of Maxine's husband, who was unable to go. Max and her husband like to "cache counties" - find at least two geocaches in every county of a state. On this trip, she was cleaning up counties in southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma and Texas. We also grabbed a few in Missouri since we were there. We found a total of 206 geocaches (and didn't find a couple of dozen), and in the process Max completed all of the counties of Kansas and Oklahoma. I think she has now found caches in all of the counties of 32 states. She is a much more hardcore geocacher than I.

    We went to many interesting places and saw lots of cool things on this trip, and - lucky you - I took lots of pictures. Don't worry, I won't inflict all of them on you at once. Here are a few shots from our first five or six days on the road.

    THE WORLD'S BIGGEST HAND-DUG WELL

    5.4 Big well

    Rather Dante-esque, don't you think?

    A CEMETERY ANGEL

    5.5 Highland Cemetery

    "Just call me angel of the morning, Angel..."

    ONE ROOM SCHOOLHOUSE...

    5.5 Little Red Schoolhouse2

    ... WITH A ONE HOLE OUTHOUSE

    5.5 Little Red Schoolhouse1

    Notice the full moon rising over the crescent moon.

    FLOODED ROADS

    5.5 NOPE

    Nope, nope, nope... I think we detoured three times to get around the flooding.

    A ROUND BARN

    5.5 Round Barn

    One of the best I've seen.

    A WINDMILL MUSEUM

    5.5 WOP

    So much more picturesque than the newfangled ones.

    A TINY JAIL

    5.6 Jail 1

    There was an amusing story about the town's chickens eating the rather unorthodox foundation materials for the originally planned building. This was thrown up at the last minute as the outgoing mayor's legacy.

    That's all for this post.

Comments (6)

  • Whoohoo! That sounds like a great trip!! I love the photos - you are so good with the camera and capture the best angles on angels!

    But I'm confused - the mayor's legacy was chicken vomit?

  • Loved the interesting pictures.

    The hand dug well! So interesting!

    I remember those little houses with the half moon on the door. :P

  • I love that staircase photograph!

  • Wow -- what a lot of caching, and what a lot of new places! Happy travels!

  • Are you sure you weren't in Indiana? We have a round barn and a windmill museum not too far from us. JK. I've been to our windmill museum and it doesn't look like that one.

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