
Now this courthouse, my friends, is resplendent! It reminds me a lot of the old courthouse in Evansville. I never wanted to own a castle, but I bet you this castle is updated with the finest(ish) heating and cooling systems and the greatest Wi-Fi ever! Or maybe not. I mean, it is the county and therefore local(ish) government. It’s not like they have Bentonville money or anything. But a man can dream, no?

There’s always a cemetery. So, as I was coming into town, I noticed that the most favorited cache in the county was a cemetery cache? Maybe I should look into that. As fate would have it, I literally had to drive by it on the way to Carthage, so I figured, why not? Yes, the cache is in the photo. That central pole? It’s got a cable, and the cache appears out the top if you pull it. Clever. Maybe not favorite-point clever, but clever. Is it possible that I shouldn’t be quite so stringent with my favorite points? Maybe so. Is that going to happen? Not likely. Especially not out here. But that’s not important. What’s important is that I continued north, ready to use what little winter sun I had to continue my work once I got to…