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Saw it once, and I figured it might be a typo on a gravestone. Saw it twice, and
I figured it was definitely deliberate. While out geocaching, Rob, Robbin, and I
decided to visit the Joppa Cemetery, a little graveyard outside Mocksville, NC,
whose most famous inhabitants are surely Daniel Boone's parents, Squire Boone
and Sarah Jarman Morgan. A beautiful, serene setting; densely wooded;
well-maintained for a relatively old graveyard. But the stones in question read
Booe, not Boone. There was even a Daniel Booe. Apparently, the Booe family was
fairly prominent in Davie County over a span of many years. The graves of Daniel
Boone's parents, sure enough, were not far away, but happening upon the Booes
was a little startling.
We did find the cache at the cemetery, then moved on to a portion of the
relatively new, cache-rich
Carolina Thread Trail, a few miles to the northwest. This trail is part of a regional series of
trails and greenways that are intended to eventually link together, forming a
network that will allow access to locations throughout central North Carolina.
This ambitious project is well underway, with dozens of completed trails and
many more currently in progress. Great stuff for hikers and cyclists — not to
mention geocachers. We picked up 16 caches along a 2.2-mile length of trail
along the South Yadkin River (
Girl Scouts, Hornets' Nest Council Trail), and ended up running into several other geocachers, including our friends
Christopher (Ranger Fox), Diana (half of David & Diana), and Phyllis (Liber)
from the Piedmont Triad. A fine day of it, indeed.
Booe! Scared you, didn't I?
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Coupla old farts: Robgso and Rtmlee, each with one foot in the grave
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Mr. Lee wonders what's cooking with the dead folks
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Long view of Joppa Cemetery
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Big honking wasp nest on the sign at the Girl Scouts' Hornet's Nest
Council trailhead
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Rtmlee, Global Grandma, Pink Rabbit, Damned Rodan
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