Surprise! I bet you didn’t see this coming! I had to go back to Missouri a month after the trip to Manitoba for reasons. I had important things to do that precluded my ability to go caching for most of it, but I was able to take a long route home so I could go grab a few counties to add to the books! That’s how I found myself in Stockton on an early Sunday morning. The courthouse was a little disappointing for the first one of the day. A monument out front described it as a “handsome, monolithic concrete structure,” but I begged to differ. It was stout and serviceable, though and, having been built in 1940, I can understand that there might have been more pressing things going on at the time, so I decided to give it a pass. No doubt the replaced 1867 courthouse would have been more stunning, but I guess you can’t win them all.
I picked up the cache on the way to Stockton in the quaint town of El Dorado Springs. A centrally placed Virtual was the most popular cache in the county and I expected no contact with the locals so early on a Sunday morning, so I figured it would be simple enough. What I found was a monument to cadastral surveying. I had never heard the term though I understood it well enough. For the TLDR crowd, it is surveying to determine legal limits on borders of real properties. A local surveying company had been instrumental to the establishment and continuation of the town, so it had a monument at a local park. In the cool morning air beneath the shadow of the bandstand, I read through a list of names on the back of the granite slab and when I found the correct one, I shot it off to the CO. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy. And once both cache and courthouse were attended to, I set off again, bound for…
Geocaching While Black 