GW X Part Two

After a night at the Comfort Inn, we stayed near the hotel that morning with a visit to the Louisville Flea Market.  Closer to lunch time, we crossed the river into Indiana and went to lunch at Hooters in Jeffersonville.  We were in Jeffersonville to take a tour of Schimpff's Confectionery set up by members of the Middle Tennessee Geocachers Club.  We had fun touring the candy factory and museum.
We picked up a few caches in the area.  The fun ones were in the Falls of the Ohio area.  Due to time constraints we were not able to go after all that we wanted, the high temperatures didn't help either.  Carolina had a big time finding fossils in the river bed.  She has an interest in geology.

We found, Falls of the Ohio, our first regular cache find in the state of Indiana.  Most of the rest were earthcaches:  Older than Dirt!, Sandstone Erratic, FoTo: The Potholes and FOSSIL IDENTIFICATION at THE FALLS of the OHIO.  We were tired and hot at this point and we drove to the Miles of Smiles Meet & Greet .  We picked up our registration packets, stayed a bit and left.  The heat and long day had worn use out.

Part that was worth most to me was visiting the Falls of the Ohio area.  I have observed cache events in the area to go after all the caches in and around the park.  I hope someday, I can return to this park.

That evening, we settled in the Sleep Inn in Louisville, a place that I don't recommend.

GW X Part One

We left bright and early on Thursday, May 24th from Dresden, TN with the destination of Louisville, KY.  I selected a few caches to go after but I knew time would be a factor and didn't cache much on the way.  After missing the exit for the Parkway and we found ourselves on I-24 heading towards Clarksville, TN, I auto-routed to Big Spring in Princeton, KY.  We liked the area and took some pictures.  Since we were near the Parkway, we got back onto the road towards Louisville.  While traveling north on I-65, we picked up a very easy earthcache, Drive-By Geology.  We reached the destination at Churchill Downs in Louisville with nearly an hour to spare.  While parking we noticed other cachers in the area.  I was thankful that we arrived as early as we did.  Walking to the point of the flash-mob was difficult.  We arrived at the event and perhaps over 100 cachers attended the event.  Afterwards, we toured Churchill Downs and stayed for the rest of the races.  We checked into the Comfort Inn which was a short distance from the racetrack and then headed downtown Louisville to attend Crossmage & Phonix Lady R Gettin' Hitched @ GWX! .  Very cool event, we chatted with the cache event host, bride and groom while there.  We walked over to the Old Church and grabbed that cache.  We stayed around and walked with a group of cachers to visit an old hotel that had a Gothic feature in the basement dinning room.  Near the event area was an area of many restaurants, where we ate at an Irish place.

Prepping for GW X

With school nearing an end, ballet recital complete, I am focusing my attention on Geo-Woodstock X which will be held in Sellersburg, Indiana.  I have attended one prior Geo-Woodstock, that was number seven in Bell Buckle, TN and had a great time.  Since I will have my family entourage, my focus will be on earthcaches, virtuals, attending a few events and grabbing caches at interesting locations.  We plan to drive up along the Purchase Parkway to I-65 and to Louisville on Thursday to attend the flash mob event at Churchill Downs.  Will do some caching on Friday, I may go after Kentucky's oldest cache.  I will see what the mood is at that time.  Saturday will be the big day with events and socializing with hundreds of cachers.
The return trip is still up for decision, it will either be a trip to Nashville to see my oldest daughter at Girl's State, or head west on I-64 and visit Santa Claus, Indiana.

In my opinion, an experience cacher who does not attend at least one Geo-Woodstock is missing out on the complete caching experience.

Canada Trail

With regular trips to the Memphis area, I browsed around for clusters of caches and observed a series of caches on Canada Trail, a green way between Highway 64 and I-40 at Exit 20.  Normally, I pass through Shelby County, grab a couple of caches and head towards home.  Being that the trail is on both sides of the 4-lane highway, I made three trips to find all the caches.  The first trip on February 2nd and the next trip on February 16 and March 1st .  The first trip, my time was short and used the short stroll and drive up and down the highway for observations reasons.    My trip to Memphis in March was unusual in that I spent the two nights in Memphis due to back to back VA Hospital visits.  On two last days days the weather was nice and never had any muggle encounters.

Caches on the trail:

Canada Trail - Evergreen

Canada Trail - Water

Canada Trail - Rest

Canada Trail - Sit

Canada Trail - Woody

Canada Trail - Troll