888. Buchanan, Haralson County (GA008)

The county courthouse was little more than drab gray, unattractive bricks piled on top of one another.  I wasn’t going to speak ill of it because Haralson County was small, and it obviously fulfilled their needs.  Now, however, I will speak ill of it because during my research in preparation to make this post, I learned that there was an old courthouse that was a bold red, absolutely attractive pile of bricks in the center of town that I missed!  Situations like this are why I relaxed my standards when it came to courthouses; why would I take the boring crappy one when there was a gorgeously vibrant one to choose instead?  But technically a courthouse is a courthouse is a courthouse.  Those gray bricks were the Haralson County Courthouse, so my mission was accomplished, and I feel no need to go back.

The cache was pretty much the same as the courthouse.  I went for an LPC not far from my hotel and found a Ziploc bag with stuff in it.  Technically, a cache (if you consider a baggie to be a container), but I didn’t care at that moment.  My goal for the day (with a couple of exceptions) was to get quick, easy, and to the point caches.  I had already cut out counties the day before, so I hoped that I might be able to save enough time over the course of the day to perhaps make an audible and pick up an extra.  But I’d cross that bridge when I got to it, hopefully not in…

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