GW X Part 4 and Reflections

Day of our departure had arrived and we left Louisville, crossed the Ohio River once again, to head west on I-64 in the direction of home.  A typical 4 or so hour drive from Louisville to Dresden turned into a 12-hour cache run and saw a few sights along the way.  We did visit Santa Clause and New Harmony, Indiana.  Santa Clause had some Christmas stores that we visited and we drove around New Harmony and found out it was twice a utopia town.  Some of the buildings that were built in 1814 were still in existence and used.

As in any large event, we ran into other cachers who like us were on the way home.  Last cache we stumbled across cachers was at a rest stop in Illinois, Take a Rest on the Wabash/Travel Bug Motel!!.  After that find, we headed south and didn't see anymore cachers on the road.  Other rest stop caches we ran into cachers was at, I-64 Rest Area and Hoosier CaCO3 Sinkhole.  We got into the discussion of the sinkhole and found it unusual that a rest stop was built here, but assume the sinkhole was not a geographical feature at the time of the rest stop's construction.

One reason for the long day was to visit the What's Shaking? - New Harmony, IN cache of the What's Shaking series.  Currently, I am two caches away from completion of the series, one in New Madrid, MO; the other in Tunica, MS.

We arrived home in the late evening on Sunday and thankful that Monday was a holiday.  I had decided to not to conduct any caching on Memorial Day.

Reflections:

The days following GW X, I browsed the profiles of some of the GOWT members who attended and saw everyone had their own agenda; such was working on Fizzy or Jasmer Challenges, visiting locations around GW X, finding the oldest caches in Kentucky or Indiana, earthcaches or number of icons in a day.  I had 49 finds over the four day trip and reflect my satisfaction that I saw interesting and different places and met other cachers.
One goal, I set for myself this year is a career total of finds of 1,000 different cachers.  Going to GW X aided that goal considerably to much less than 50 to go.