Adler's Midwest Meandering Spring 2021

 Hummm, wondering why the blog was so late on getting published, other than our Geo-caching site was very slow yesterday, also.  We checked to make sure the counties we cached in, were on our map for the challenge cache and they weren't yet, as of today.  So, we covered for that today, and went west toward Wichita thirty miles to a cache titled, 'I Scream, You Scream, We all Scream for Ice Cream'.  Of course we were thinking we would get an ice cream treat when we got there.  Well, the joke was on us.  It was out on the fringe of the city and they are laying some big sewer pipes, so progress is being made.  There was nothing at the cache site but a hollowed out tree trunk and a hidden ammo can in there!  At least we got our letterbox cache that we drove all that ways for, but no ice cream.  Back to El Dorado to go east thirty miles to get Greenwood County.  We hadn't planned to go to Eureka, but the caches that were just inside the Greenwood County line were not maintained, missing, or other issues with them, so we were glad we loaded the Eureka caches.  It isn't much of a town, but Main Street was all tore up, so we made our find and left.  Now I'll post what we have for cache containers today.  

This was probably the best maintained cache that we have seen in Oklahoma and Kansas, so far.  It is a preform tube that is waterproof, so the log sheet inside will stay dry.  This cache owner glued a cute little frog on the outside 'to protect the cache'.  We have used preforms quite a bit when we placed caches back in Wittenberg.

This is the log sheet that was in the preform tube.  We order our log sheets from a Geo-caching site that sells the preforms, bison tubes, nanos, and other things that a cache owner might need.  Our handle is at the bottom of the sheet.  There is more room to sign for the next people, on the other side. 

We went to a cemetery for this cache and it was hanging in a pine tree.  You can see that it is a pill bottle that has been camouflaged with duct tape.  If cache owners use a pill bottle, it is advised that they put the log sheet in a small plastic bag to keep it dry. 

This was a pretty good hide, also!  It took us into the woods a little ways 'and it was a jungle in there'!  We saw this white thing sticking out of the ground about 2 feet, and Jim tried to unscrew the cap to it, but it wouldn't budge, so we continued to look.  The GPS' were bouncing around and when we didn't see anything, I went back to the white tube.  I screwed it off quite easily.  I told him that he must have loosened it up for me!  Sure enough, there was a pill bottle at the bottom with a log sheet in a plastic bag.  That was our cache for Greenwood County!  We're finished here until we come back in the fall.  We bought the annual sticker for the state parks in Kansas and we plan to go to the bike path that we checked out today when we were west of here.  It is asphalt and looks great!  Planning ahead. 

We are seeing the wildflowers now in our park and these were a bunch of Phlox that were greeting us as we walked along the bike path.  Spring is so wonderful.  Like a breath of fresh air!  We move tomorrow.