Sunday, July 27, 2014

Summer Road Trip 2014

I attempted to complete my attempt to find caches in all contiguous counties on my way to and from Oregon (from Tennessee).  I only needed one county (in Oklahoma) on my usual route out west, so I had made tentative plans to cut north into Kansas to make progress on an alternate route.  I was effectively prevented from doing this by strong storms in Kansas predicted for the day I was to arrive so I stayed to the south and found a few random caches on that route.

On the way back east, I only needed caches in Missouri counties.  I found a few caches along the route before hitting Missouri.  Somewhere along the vacation, I lost the list of counties in Missouri I needed to hit, so after I found caches in the northwest corner of Missouri, I simply tried to get as many counties along I-70 as I could.  As you can tell by looking closely at the Missouri map, I only appear to have missed one county (near St. Louis).  Pretty good considering I got there around the morning rush hour.


I added 10 counties to my list:  1 in Oklahoma to close my southern (east to west) route.  1 in Colorado, and 9 in Missouri to almost close my northern (west to east) route.  If I get another chance to make this trip, I'll try to hunt more counties in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Colorado to try and close that route.

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