Sleepy Eye MN and the Geo Wrap-Up

 We drove south from New Ulm to Sleepy Eye as that is where geocaching took us. 

Driving into town from the north one cannot miss the twin steeples of the Catholic Church. It is massive for a little community of 3500. 

Chief Sleepy Eyes was our goal for geocaching.

Linus at the library

Sleepy Eyes or Drooping Eyelids was born about 1780. He was a friend to explorers, traders, missionaries, and government officials. He had a nephew of the same name who may have been part of the 1862 Dakota War.

Chief Sleepy Eyes died around 1860 while hunting in Roberts County, South Dakota. The old chief's grave was located in 1898 and in 1902 he was reburied here, near his last home.

Always a Friend of the Whites

A thunderstorm on Tuesday morning hindered our geocaching plans. We completed the 20 or so geocaches we had left on the Fort Road Trail as that was the goal for the trip.

There are about 150 geocaches from east to west on Fort Road in Nicollet County, beginning in St. Peter.

We completed 3 of the 5 Adventure Labs in New Ulm...

And the one Adventure Lab in Sleepy Eye.

We earned this virtual souvenir once we found geocaches worth 20 points...

And this geocaching virtual souvenir once we found geocaches with 100 points. According to Hubby our final statistics for the Sunday through Tuesday trip was 159 various geocaches and 20 Adventure Lab locations.