Another Jefferson County makes ten visited at this point! That’s even more than the Washingtons!
I felt like a bit of a newbie while searching out the courthouse. Mapping put me out in the middle of nowhere on the edge of town, but I’m well aware they’re usually (though not always) in the center of town. I drove through the fields I was led to and kept going to a more promising location but ended up driving all over downtown. When I finally arrived at the courthouse, I realized that I had originally turned a block too early and could have saved the extra driving. Was it all worth it? The jury’s still out. It’s not a great courthouse, but who am I to judge?
I also felt like a bit of a noob when I went for the cache, as well. I pulled up at an old but popular restaurant off the road and began my search. It was supposed to be an easy find and I went over all the obvious places on an antique piece of machinery sitting out front and found nothing. I felt myself getting flustered, especially because of the previous day’s frustration near Forest, but I calmed and realized I had to be missing something. I took another look and the cache, a mini keybox, turned out to be in one of the corners I had already looked over, but just under a lip and I didn’t see it the first time. It happens to the best of us. And I hardly consider myself “the best of us.” Once I was done with both cache and courthouse, I continued my southward trek toward…
Geocaching While Black 