Caching Trip Down South
Over the holidays we went on a new years cruise to the Caribbean out of Houston with the family. We cached a few days in Houston before the cruise and we picked up 2 more countries during the cruise (Honduras and Belize). After the cruise we rented a car for a week to get a three more states (LA MS AL). So we drove along the coast on interstates all the way to Alabama. We got 3 caches at the first rest area in Alabama and immediately headed back.
In Louisiana we didn’t go right into New Orleans because we were too busy caching but we went to an evening event in the suburbs and met local cachers. We did a couple of series including one of 117 caches in one day along a highway in the bayou area of Louisiana. Loved the Louisiana people but a muggle on a country road told us not to cross a fence to look for a cache because he wouldn’t want us to get shot.
We got back to Houston one day early for our flight so we looked at the caching map and spotted a promising area so we drove over there and picked up 33 caches that day. The next morning we were flying out, but we needed a cache because we are trying to have 10 caches on every day of the calendar. A short walk from the hotel got us 4 more caches.
I am hoping to add comments to this post to give some interesting details about cache hides, people, etc. So consider this to be part 1.
The series of 117 that we found in Louisiana was called Hang’em High On Hwy. 51. The series was on a 25 mile stretch of highway that went through the area of a bayou. There was no habitation along this road and very little traffic. The traffic consisted mostly of vehicles pulling small boats as were often came to places where fishermen could access the water. A few of them slowed down to see if we had car problems and 2 police officers also stopped. The caches were not deep in the woods, but we always checked to see if there were snakes or gators. The shoulder of the road was not covered in gravel and stones but was covered with shells, millions of tiny shells. Apparently there are frequent floods along the road. Within a few hundred feet of the highway was interstate 55. It was and elevated 4 lane highway that went for miles on a bridge in the middle of the bayou. This was a really nice series with caches hanging high. We met the CO at an event that night.
We did a another series that was all micros. We found it very strange that most of these micros were on the ground tied to trees and fence posts.
In Houston we did caches near the airport, and were surprised to see the name of MineRP from cape Breton in many of the cache logs.
PAul