Beautiful Day & Nothing to do!

Saturday night we decided to hit the road earlier Sunday and do some serious geocaching. After the doughshop roundtable (actually, retangular with a dogleg) I raced back home and we departed on the quest that took us near Fort Wayne, on to Ney, OH and then to Montpelier, OH and back.

First stop was St. Joe, IN for the Orange Sherbert cache – a two stager. The first stage we found fairly easily in an Atoids metal box at a location I cannot describe for game reasons. However, the coordinates for the second stage in the box were what we wanted so we drove to the closest point for the second site and walked the last 0.25 miles to a very nice spot on the bend of a river. The trailend was actually our trail head and had a sign showing an old covered bridge on the spot. After finding the cache and signing the log plus trading “things” we proceeded to Hurshtown Reservour for the second of the day. However, the park was closed for the season and all sorts of dired warnings about electronic surveillance convienced us to not trespass – strike one.

Ok, on to Ney, OH. We passed multitudes of Amish carriages on this beautiful day near Grabill, IN. They were out in their finest and on the way to Sunday Church. We arrived in Ney, after a small detour to Kray Orchards (which was terminally closed with apples on the trees), and navigated to the ball field and parked within 475′ of the cache. After a short time we arrived at the site and looked for about 15 minutes to find it. I took a shot of SAM on the way back.

Ok, on our way to the final cache of the day in Montpelier, OH we stopped for fuel just across the street from the famous Lester’s Diner. We found the last cache after a false start on the St. Joe Trail in the town. It was a new one and we were the first to log it.