The plan to continue collecting Kansas county geocaches was to drive east, north, west, north, east, etc. getting as many counties as possible before meeting OUF in Kansas City on Friday evening.
The plan was to find geocaches along the route, not too far off the highways if possible. So many of the roadway geocaches were missing/not found by previous geocachers. Finding virtual caches (because there is no container) was at the top of our list.
Veterans Memorial caches were also on the list
colorful roses at the Veterans Memorial in Iola
When possible, we also look for Welcome to... geocaches. We have more than 200 found and signed geocaches from our travels on the Welcome to... list.
We were traveling along the Santa Fe Trail for part of our road trip. This cache was at a well.
Palmya Well was dug by hand when the town of Palmya was established in 1857. The well served travelers on the Santa Fe Trail as well as the townspeople. The well is 2.5' in diameter and 56' deep, and about 17' of water.
prison at Leavenworth
Urban geocache containers go missing often, but this one was present.
a neighborhood garden
mural near our second geocache find in Leavenworth
We looked for a challenge geocache at a park along the Missouri River in Leavenworth. Although the cache owner said it was just replaced, we did not have any success finding it.
the location was scenic
the park was between the Missouri River and the railroad
colorful mural at the rail yard
Hyde Park in Kansas City
a street light in the middle of the intersection of two streets
Installed in the 1920s at Linwood Boulevard and The Paseo, Kansas City’s first controlled intersection signaled the city's growing reliance on automobiles.
Designed by architect Edward Buehler Delk — best known for the timeless design of the Country Club Plaza — the 17-foot-tall traffic light became a local landmark due to its unique structure and placement.
Remarkably, this historic traffic signal remains operational today.
one of our BBQ dinners Friday night
one of OFD's BBQ choices
County caching in Kansas is complete! All 105 counties have at least one found and logged geocache. The difference in colors signifies the number of geocache finds. The two darkest colors are counties with 51 (lowest brown county) and 166 in the upper brown county, which is home to Mingo, the oldest active geocache in the world.
There was only one road detour that affected our planned route, adding approximately 50 miles. Oh, and there was the one geocache on 6 miles of unpaved roads that filled the truck box with fine chalk colored dust, only to not find the geocache. The description led ME to believe it was in a cemetery on a rarely traveled road, but the coordinates were not in the cemetery. So that drive was for naught and resulted in a disgruntled driver.
We logged 43 geocaches in the 21 counties. Seven states have found & logged caches in every county: South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Wyoming, New Mexico and Arizona.
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