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The inevitable portrait from the day's caching trip
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The best thing one can say about the days getting longer and the weather warming
up is that it's a bit easier to fit the geocaching into the schedule. At the
office, Good Friday is one of those days during the year you can take a floating
holiday, and so, being as the caching was calling me and all, I took it. Spent
most of it over in Alamance County, hunting for a few hides around Graham and
Burlington. There's a fairly expansive natural area in north Burlington called
Oakdale Town & Country Park, which runs along the always gorgeous Haw River.
Much of my time out there was spent on a couple of hides that I ultimately could
not find, but I did not care; it was just a great day to be outdoors. I love
finding old, forgotten, and unusual things out on the trail, and there were
several out that way: what might have been part of an old set of weighing scales
hanging from a tree; a busted-up toy racing car stuck on a metal post; a portion
of brick column in a creek that came from who-knows-what old structure. Perhaps
the most interesting was discovering a new, unused can of Febreze out in the
middle of woods, not too far from a cache. I figure I can always use a little
extra fresh air in the house, so I took it home with me.
Today, Ms. B. and I popped up to Martinsville to see Mum, detouring through Eden
to go after a four-stage multi cache called "Murdered by State of NC," after the
inscription on the gravestone of a convicted murderer who proclaimed his
innocence up until he was executed by the state. His mother had the epitaph put
on his stone to protest the ostensible murder of an innocent man. A fun hide in
a neat location, at which one discovers quite a bit of local history as told by
the stones at many of the grave sites.
And that is all. For now.
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A very green portion of the trail along the Haw River, on the way to a
cache aptly titled "Emerald"
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This little racer must have hit this pole pretty danged hard.
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I think this came from an old set of scales; if you know, please weigh
in.
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No telling what this portion of column came from; I saw no other remains
nearby.
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Restored cabin and well at Graham Municipal Park
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