10. Waco, McLennan County

Home of Dr Pepper and Baylor University and inspiration for a great many country songs.  I got out of work early and shot straight up here so I could knock out a county or two tonight.  Well, a new one and one backfill.  Waco is a special county, so I hit several caches tonight instead of just the minimum.  We’ll talk about that more in a bit.  Speaking of Dr Pepper …

… welcome to the Dr Pepper Museum.  As fate would have it, there’s a simple cache here.  I slipped over, grabbed it, and jetted.  I even replaced the log, which I’m having mixed feelings about.  I’ve already decided that zombie caches are part of the problem, and since the owner hasn’t found one in over a year, I have the feeling this is one.  After this, I shot farther north for a regular cache.

I picked up a trackable a few weeks ago that’s making its way north, and I added about six hundred miles to put it at over twenty-five hundred.  I dropped it off here and found another one with fifty-seven thousand miles on it.  Cool.  Then I hit a cemetery.

This is a special one for me.  My mother’s family is from Waco.  I have great-grandparents here.  I stopped by and said hello, then picked up a couple of caches in the cemetery: one Traditional, one Unknown.  The sucky part is that I spent a bit too long looking for the Unknown cache because the coordinates were jumping around and because the Boy Scouts somehow failed to teach me to identify a cedar tree.  But I found it.  And another twenty-five thousand mile trackable.

And, with these acquired, I jumped back in my car and sped off to…