For a little bit, I was worried that I was going to be in a similar situation as Atlanta where I wouldn’t be able to tell what was this or what was that from a courthouse perspective. When I pulled up to the courthouse square in Marietta though, there was no question as it dominated the square, flagpoles featured prominently. Totally the courthouse. Now, was it a good courthouse? That’s an entirely different question. And who am I to judge? For those of you who are long time readers, I psychically feel your laughter. For those of you who are not longtime readers, I will judge the crap out of a courthouse. I’m not in love with this one, either. I don’t like the asymmetry or the way it’s trying to play both modern and antique and failing on both counts. I’m not going to talk crap about it, but I am not impressed. It’s just not good.
I was ready for the quickest cache I could find but the closest was blocked off by a train moving through downtown. An equidistantly nearby Letterbox Hybrid seemed in that situation to be the perfect choice. Except it wasn’t! Doesn’t it seem like the “simplest” caches are the hardest to find? I probably spent 15-20 minutes looking for a 1.5/1.5 I couldn’t find. And the one thing I didn’t need was to burn more time. I ended up redeploying to the previous closest cache, an LPC that was actually, in fact, there. A cache is a cache is a cache. Once it was signed and returned, I was off again. My lodging for the night was to the west and all that stood between me and a warm bed with a locking door was…
Geocaching While Black 