I had to head up to Calhoun this morning to buy carpet for our new house. I decided to do some geocaching while I was up there since we didn't get to do it the last time we were in the area.
My first stop was at a cache called Sonoraville Boys, so named because it was in the old Boy Scout Cabin seen below. There's also a close-up of the cornerstone plaque. Notice how they spelled it "Senora" back in 1942 but it's Sonoraville now.
Like many caches, this was a lot easier than I made it. I was actually at the right spot a full 10 minutes before I actually found the thing. I knew it had to be there, so I did what I always do when I'm having trouble: I stopped looking at anything but the coordinates. Once I got them at the exact spot I looked around and said "It has to be there," and it was! The cache was stuffed with goodies, so much that I had a hard time closing the ammo can at the end.
After Sonoraville, I headed up the interstate a bit to another cache. This one was near the New Echota Cemetery, a burial site from the former capital of the Cherokee Nation. It has only a few gravesites but was still very interesting. The center of the small cemetery is the burial site of Col. Pathkiller, called the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Naturally when I put his name into Google I found that he's also supposedly buried in Alabama, and neither cemetery has supporting proof that Pathkiller was really buried there. In any event, it's a nice monument to a man I never knew existed. Type his name into Google if you want to learn more.
From New Echota I went back to Calhoun where I had a very good cheeseburger at Checker's. I've been seeing their commercials a lot on TV, and they did their job of making me want to eat there :-)
After lunch I drove into downtown Calhoun for the last find of the day, a micro cache attached to the bottom of a railcar. After finding this one I meandered back through Calhoun, stopping at Dollar General and Family Dollar to re-stock my "swag" bag.
On the way home I made my only unsuccessful stop of the day. There is a micro located at a Quik Trip right off of I-75, but there were so many people around that I didn't look as thoroughly as I would have under other circumstances. I hate to not find a cache when I know that I'm right there, but sometimes that's the way it works.
Now that I'm home I need to log all of my finds and plan a possible caching trip for tomorrow. We'll see how that works out.
