Geocaching at the Rock Pile
Yesterday: Route 66 and PFNP Murals
This continues the documentation of our recent trip to the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona.
Before heading back out to the petrified forest for the day, Strix and I did some geocaching around Holbrook. The first one was at a rock pile at the dead end of one of the streets just past I-40. It was a ridiculous place for a geocache, with people driving by in droves. The big pile of rocks apparently also served as both a junkyard and a party place, as there were broken alcohol bottles and rusty pieces of metal there for us to cut ourselves on. It's geocaches like this that make me wonder if the pharmaceutical company that produces tetinus shots invented geocaching.
In case the glass and rusty metal weren't enough, the cache site was right up against a rickety barbed wire fence. Since the fence had to straddle a tall rock pile, whoever put it in got the brilliant idea of weighing it down with large rocks tied into the barbed wire.
And of course they would have to put a fence here to keep people out of their beautiful, trecherous rock pile. But not the whole rock pile, of course. This half is mine, that half is yours.
And after much searching, the cache was found.
It's late, so that's all I'm doing tonight.
Tomorrow: Holbrook's Petroglyph Park
