I didn’t dislike the Clay County Courthouse though I must admit that I wasn’t in love with it either. It felt like someone designed something functional and someone else cracked open the blueprints in the middle of the night and added in a splash of panache. It’s the minimalist nature of the ornamentation that brings it into stark relief with the rest of the structure, creating a better effect then if they had done more with it. Therefore, don’t love it, don’t dislike it. Far worse things came out of the 50s.
Though I didn’t get especially lucky with the courthouse, I got pretty lucky with my cache. I found a simple magnetic one that happened to have Minnesota in the title, helping me on a state name challenge. It was also right on top of an EarthCache discussing flood control on the Red River. I raised an eyebrow because I’m fairly familiar with the Red River being the border between Texas and Oklahoma. Well, I learned that there’s a Red River of the South and a Red River of the North but that’s beside the point. I expected it to talk about weirs, the only EarthCache subject that has stuck in my head other than karst (there is so much in Central Texas), but it discussed sediment buildup and levees. With those taken care of, my giddiness level began to rise. Across the river I could see one of the jewels of my trip. I mounted up, put on the appropriate music, and took the bridge west into…
Geocaching While Black 