I thought the courthouse was nice enough, but not without problems. I couldn’t really find a good vantage from which to photograph it, so I had trouble getting the very top of the tower in the shot. The best I could manage included the tower, but it was still obscured by an unfortunately placed tree that, while annoying, didn’t present enough of an obstruction to invoke the notice of the Future Arborists of America. Otherwise, it was fine (or at least good enough).
Even more importantly, I was beginning to experience fatigue. I don’t mean being tired from our long day (though getting up to and around Quebec had been a long day), but the greater fatigue of a longer trip. When I’m alone, it tends to be pretty heavy after about four days because I’m running high-speed and full bore with a grand total of about fifteen to twenty hours of sleep (maybe eight of those in a bed) over eighty to a hundred hours of travel. At this point, even though I had gotten a full night’s sleep in a bed each night, it was the end of day six, and the effect was noticeable on us all. For myself, the courthouses were blending together, and ones I would have found fascinating forty-eight hours and thirty courthouses earlier were barely of note by this point.
The other sign of my fatigue was that I neglected to photograph the cache. You missed nothing special: a cat-themed LPC just on the edge of town. Our primary concern was finding something easy peasy lemon squeezy because of our fatigue. We made a beeline through the night, opting to go a little farther for lodging so we would have an easier time in the morning. We passed through two more counties, grabbing caches, but I declined to claim them. While I am not a purist when it comes to some things, we all know that 99 percent of the time, I’ll pass up a cache in a heartbeat unless I go to the county’s courthouse or claim a state for the first time. Soon enough, we made it to our hotel and got a good night’s rest. We had another big day ahead of us and began it by walking the mean streets of…
Geocaching While Black 