We took a quick geocaching trip last Sunday and Monday. It was Labor Day weekend, so Jacob didn't have school, I have Monday's off and Jeff was on leave. Perfect timing for a road trip! We packed up the Prius and took off heading southeast towards Dunlap, Kansas. Since Jeff is from Dunlap, Iowa, we decided to set a cache in Dunlap, Kansas! Dunlap, Kansas was a small town that in it's heyday, must have been a bustling farming community. Today, there are gravel roads instead of paved, there are old buildings that are abandoned and in disrepair. The school is all boarded up. There is a church, and it actually seemed to be one of the few buildings that looked as if it was well taken care of.
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| Burden, KS |
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| Who-who can find me? Jacob can! |
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| Big Brutus |
We continued southeast towards Chanute and Columbus. Columbus is in the southeast corner of Kansas, near Oklahoma and Missouri. Once we reached Columbus, we started heading west, zigzagging north and south, hitting caches in particular counties. We're trying to attempt the
Delorme Kansas Challenge and the
Kansas 105 County Challenge so we needed to be specific on where exactly the caches were!
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| Little House on the Prairie |
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| Bossie |
We had a great time... 2 day, 706 miles (we only had to fill up once!) and we found a total of 69 caches. We drove down a lot of gravel roads, traveled paved roads that were more like gravel roads, and saw a lot of small-town Kansas...Big Brutus,
Little House on the Prairie (which is a replica of their Kansas home) and
Bossie dancing the Bosa-Nova.
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