Tunica, Mississippi

Made a recent trip to Tunica, MS. Not being much of a gambler or the night life, I took part of the family to visit the area and find a few caches. The reason we went was that cachestalker94, my oldest daughter had a flight to catch early Tuesday morning and we took a couple of days off to see the resort town and eat at the famous buffets.

We made a short break at the Welcome to Arlington cache, formerly owned by Spencersb. I didn't look up the cache page and cachestalker94 and I took cannotreadgps to find the cache and unable to find it where we saw it last. I assumed that it may have been archived. Looked up the cache and the hint indicates a different hiding place than were I found it and yet no log where the coordinates were moved. The stop was a planned break anyway, I normally use Exit 25 on I-40 as a bathroom break/rest stop since there are usually clean restrooms at the Welcome Center or the Horizon Travel Center nearby. Exit 25 is the last easy exit into Memphis.

Going around Memphis on I-240, I made a stop at The Grotto a virtual cache. The best virtual cache in West Tennessee and one of my all time favorite virtuals. I had found it last year and took cachestalker94 and cannotreadgps there to visit and they were in awe. Both grabbed cameras to record the visit. Got back on I-240 later to I-55 and into Mississippi.

I had already cached much along I-55 in Desoto County and didn't feel the need to grab caches along the way since cannotreadgps and cachestalker94 are not into the numbers. We headed into Tunica on I-69 a brand new Interstate. So new that my new Garmin software version 8 didn't show the Interstate and watched on the the icon (vessel) travel across the screen where there were no roads. I-69 ended and soon came up on an easy cache A Grand Treasure. Cache page has little information and since it was a regular size, I figure lets go after it. Arrived at the location, found the cache with ease and then noticed the surroundings. We were in an African-American cemetery. Many of the stones seemed to be homemade and with hand writing etchings. We stayed a while and took many pictures. Last cache for Sunday was at an earthcache The Mighty River. I needed another state for the next earthcache award and this cache had been watchlist for quite some time. We visited the Tunica River Museum and really enjoyed it. About that time, we were really hungry and the locals told use to visit the Paula Deen buffet at the Harrah's casino. It was pricey and possibly one of the best casino buffet I have visited, Paula Deen's and the buffet located in the Luxor in Las Vegas, NV are the two best I have experienced.

On Monday, we wanted to see some of the Mississippi country side and went after Old 304 Access, it was a good cache located in the swamps. We were able to drive to within 150 feet of the cache, didn't get wet or bitten by a snake or 'gator retrieving the cache. Later, we drove to Hernando, MS and saw some of the old home and historic downtown area. Grabbed a few caches in the town, visited the park and shopped at Wal-Mart.