7 State Geo Trip

August 22, 2015 - We left Texas... went to Oklahoma to do the Oklahoma Star (50 caches) and then to Shawnee to do a web cam cache, then on to Kansas to do the Kansas Star (50 caches), then off to Kansas City to do the Missouri'sFirst -Watt's Mill (June 2000) then back across Kansas to Mingo (May 2000) then on to the Colorado Star (50 caches) then into the high Colorado Rockies for Log Cabin (Jan. 2001) (which was a beautiful hike!!) then over to Utah for Potter's Pond (Aug 2000) and then back to Colorado for another one out in the boonies - Terryall (July 2000) and finally finishing up with some challenge caches in Canon City, CO and then driving back through New Mexico and Texas getting caches in each county. Finished with about 220 caches over the trip. We traveled a bit over 3,200 miles in those 6 days!! Click on any photo to see an enlarged version.
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Day 1 - On the way to the Oklahoma Star we stopped by a virtual at a rest stop by the border... this was needed for the answer.	We then did the 50 caches of the Oklahoma Star and headed to Shawnee, OK for a web cam cache...	It was about 6 in the evening and we were in Kansas on the way to the Kansas Star to get a few done before night. This was a virtual on the way
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It turned out to be an outstanding place... all metal artwork on the grounds... here a dog catching a frisbee.	Have to get a picture of a cat for sure!	Beware the plants here!
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Most of the place was dragons & dinosaur themes	Here are some skeletons evolving into dragons as they drive down the road.	Each progress is a step toward dragon evolution...
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The final part the bike becomes the ultimate ride!	A water skier	Hey baby!!
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Looks who is chasing the water skier!	Lots of cool stuff everywhere!	I've always called them bugs anyway!
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Jurassic Oil being pulled by a dinosaur	Jurassic Oil with old time prices at the pump	Where Old cars go die
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ddvdude at Mingo (oldest cache - June 2000)	The Colorado Star was different than the OK or KS stars... the other two were on county roads after you figured out the mystery caches.	This one was 50 letterbox caches all on a grasslands preserve.. no vechicles... so we walked the 8.5 miles in 5 hours to get all of them!
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The coolest and prettiest countyside was leaving the car behind and hiking up and over a mountain and into a Colorado valley to find Log Cabin.	This is the kind of beauty I remember from this state... awesome!	This isn't log cabin... it is an old mine site... but everyone takes a picture here.. including Grampa Bob 14
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It ain't falling down on my watch!!	According to the GPS (the phones wouldn't work out here), it is right up on that hill!	Thank goodness we didn't have to climb that!!
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Bob found it first!	Something he had on his bucket list (as were most of these old caches we visited!)	THE ORGINAL LOG BOOK!!!!!!!!!
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People would write pages (before the internet caught on) in here telling about thier experences. Now we use the web to log our finds!	Then on to Utah... man... we drove the most wild trail (road?) to get to this place... drops of a 1,000 ft on the edge with mountain on the other side (and sometimes traffic!)	We got there and the purple thisles were litteraly 6 feet tall!
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This was the highest of our caches (at 9,300 ft above sea level).	AND THEY ALL INVOLVED A HIKE!!	Bob would take off like an olympian so excited to get to a rare cache!
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ddvdude at Potter's Pond	The orginal Log Book here too!! How cool is that?	Utah is desert then all of a sudden these incredible buttes start sprouting up everwhere... very cool!
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ddvdude posing by Terrall in Colorado	Proof ddvdude was there.. he goes everywhere with the SpongeBob Stick!	A neat virtual cache near Canon City, CO where we did a lot of challenge caches.
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	Called Verterans Cache, it honored the veterans of the county.
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