Welcome back to scenic Arkansas, folks. So, I’ve been planning a bigger trip to Arkansas because it’s been taunting me and I wanted to get it finished, making it state number five completed. I found myself with a small publishing hole between the end of my trip to Kansas and Missouri, and my upcoming trip to Arkansas. I also had a small hole in my map, three counties in Southern Arkansas that I had to miss because of bad weather. Not wanting to leave you, my loyal readers, without content for days (and hating seeing that unintentional hole), I decided, after a visit to the girls in L-Town, to grab those three counties and maybe a few more if time permitted. Anything I could grab would make the big push that much easier. Well, “anything I could grab” became more than I expected as you shall see. The courthouse in Fordyce was suitably attractive and the lit dome made for a nice nighttime feature. I noted the wires strung above it and had the feeling that they would be the base infrastructure for Christmas lights. I chuckled to myself that this was the second Dallas County I had ever been to, knowing that there would be many more as the Project continued.
My first attempt at a cache was the one closest to the courthouse, however based on photos from previous finders, the area had been pruned back and there’s no other way a regular could have been hidden in that area at that difficulty rating. I logged it both as a DNF and for maintenance because it’s disappeared. Luckily, I found a keybox at the local library. The librarian is keen on geocaching though not a cacher themselves so kudos to both them and the library for having this one here. I signed and left a unicoin because I had a nice extra batch left over from before I went up to Kansas City and remembered to bring them with me. My work done here, I headed back into the night to reach…
Geocaching While Black 