489. Danville/Dardanelle, Yell County (AR41)

I screwed up. Plain and simple. As you can see from the title, this county has two seats, one of them not far from Russellville. Unfortunately, I just completely missed Dardanelle and headed straight for Danville. It’s particularly tragic because I passed through Dardanelle to get there. I’m counting this county. I’ve been to one of its seats, and it’s not like I don’t already have to come back to the area anyway. Danville makes it official. Dardanelle will have to wait and I’ll add it after I get back. And I hope Dardanelle is a better courthouse, because this is not the best… Of course, now that I have a courthouse, I need a cache. Oh, and side note:

…another free benchmark? If you’re into that kind of thing?

Take one of…whatever these are, put in a log, and screw it to the end of an appropriate pole and boom! You’ve got a cache! Or at least that’s what it was supposed to be according to the cache description. Someone along the way and just hung from a protruding screw on a telephone pole. It had a log and a cache is a cache is a cache. Maybe I’ll try to figure out what kind of thingie this is. Maybe I’ll buy one and hide it some where myself. I’ve never seen one like this until now, so why not? My work done here, I got back on the road. The night beckoned me onward to into it until I came to a stop a parking spot in…