My Beloved is away on a work trip for a few days and I’ve decided to make it a “staycation” by doing a number of fun things close to home.
After work today, I had a small adventure in geocaching, a sometime-hobby of mine that I’ve written about before.
I like the treasure-hunting aspect of geocaching, but I also really enjoy the “finding cool places” part of it. My first one today led me to a memorial for the victims of the Pacolet River Flood of 1903 – a massive natural disaster that I’d never heard of. While I didn’t find the cache (it’s a teensy one hidden in a tree near the site – I found the tree, but not the cache), I enjoyed learning about the history. Plus, the memorial itself is a sobering reminder of Nature’s utter indifference to man. That monument marks the approximate height of the flood’s crest – easily more than 22 feet above flood stage for the river.
On the way to the next cache, I saw a kid in front of his house operating a lemonade stand. Now, I have a few rules in my life, one of which is to never pass up a kid’s lemonade stand. Levi was shy and his mom stepped in to help a little, but I left with a delicious frozen strawberry lemonade. Kids and summer lemonade stands – that’ll give you hope!
Apparently, it brought me luck, because my second cache was easy-peasy, lemonade-squeezy by a local dirt track speedway. Again, a place I’d never been to.
Explore your own back yard, Divas! Go forth with curiosity and you’re likely to be rewarded!
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