915. Fairbury, Jefferson County (NE32)

Yet Another Jefferson County makes eleven visited at this point! Is there seemingly no end to them?

I pulled up to the Jefferson County Courthouse just in time to hear bells tolling the hour. I didn’t know for sure whether or not the bells were coming from the courthouse or somewhere nearby, but I’d like to think that the courthouse’s tower was there for more than just aesthetics. The clock up there looked accurate, so why not? Of course, if it was there merely to look pretty, then I’m OK with that and mission accomplished! After a quick swing around the building to ascertain where the front was (that’s what flagpoles are for if you ask me) and photos, I set myself to looking for breakfast. By that point, I had already found a cache on the way into town.

I’m not a fan of front yard caches, but when I saw it was a large, I felt I had to go get it. Often, when COs designate a cache as a large size, it usually means it’s maybe a regular, but it feels large because so many caches are micros or nanos. When I pulled into the front gate of the property, I thought that might be the case. I noticed it close to the drive-in point and walked over to view it. Now that’s a large. I was suitably impressed. I was also prepared. I’m not normally a swag person, but I brought not only my own unicoins, but also a bunch of wooden nickles from both leftovers from Challenge in Taylor and a bunch from Baytown Geotours. I enswaggened the cache and then signed the log. With that and my visit to the courthouse, I was ready to put Fairbury in the rearview mirror. It was a quaint town, but the cell service was terrible. And besides, it put the lie to my statement that gas is cheaper literally everywhere north of Austin. It was not exorbitant, but certainly more than I had any intention of paying on that day. I got back in the car, went north and east, and found myself in…