St. Louis trip

Debating of where to go on vacation, we bounced ideas around and settled on St. Louis since it was only 4 hours from home verses 8 hours to go to the Gulf in Mississippi.  My agenda was to find caches along the Mississippi River counties in Missouri to St. Louis.  I failed in that mission when I did not get any finds in St. Louis County.  However, I plan to return next year for Geo-Woodstock and should grab that county and St. Charles.  To my readers, I have no plans to complete any Missouri county or Delorme challenges, I don't know that state too well and if I were go go after another state, it would be Mississippi, it's flat!!!

The trip's purpose was a family outing and caching was not a high priority, we did visit the St. Louis Arch, Zoo, Art and History museums.  We also wanted to look at the area and decided we would stay closer to St. Charles when we return next year.

There was one cache (Iron Curtain) in Fulton, Missouri that I really wanted to visit.  I had heard of the place long prior to geocaching and was worth the time to visit.

Other interesting caches:

St. Louis Arch Virtual Cache, maybe one of the most difficult virtuals I ever completed.  Very crowded in the museum and thankfully, I pulled some of the information online before our trip.

Firefighters Memorial, very nice place.

Schnurbusch Karst Window, relaxing location and encourge those from West TN on the way to Geo-Woodstock next year to take the time and visit.

Flying Rolls, been to this place 20 years ago and finally returned.  Good meal and have a chance to catch or get hit by a roll. 

KTAG event

While looking for nearby events, I noticed KTAG "I Scream" Social  and made plans to attend.  It was a fun event and  the type of event that I like the most where I can mingle from one cacher or group to another.  Weather turned out good for the event, not too hot and no rain.  While at the event, I went after The Iconic Multi State Challenge (Sapper Style).  I made my leave from the event and proceed the trails and then found the area 70 feet from GZ to be logged out.  Apparently, the cache is located on private property, I attempted to find the cache and got no where and went back to the event empty handed.  At the event, I expressed my disappointment and then other cachers told me it was there and scoutpaddle drove me to another location making the hike much shorter and I found the cache.

This challenge type was difficult to me since I normally don't make big sweeps of an area, I typically go a few, usually not more than 4 caches on a trip, much less getting several icons in one day.