The Cuckoo's Nest Letterbox Hybrid

This cache has been archived.

crawburr: I visited the cache today and am sad to say that only 3 out of the 8 cabins that were there in 2008 remain. And the mermaid is also gone. I guess I shouldn't be sad, but I am. Anyway, this neighborhood is pretty much gone, and so I am archiving this cache.

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Hidden : 1/13/2008
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Park near the posted coordinates. Take a paper and pencil, and follow the instructions to find the cache. Enjoy this historic neighborhood. Aside from arriving at the start of this cache, you will not need your GPSr.

Some relevant links: This is the street where Ken Kesey lived in the late '50s and early '60s. As a graduate student, he volunteered to become a "medical guinea pig", testing psychedelic drugs at a local veteran's hospital. He developed a taste for these drugs, and eventually brought them home and shared them with many of the fellow artists and students living on this street. Later, he accepted a job as an orderly in the hospital, which inspired him to write "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".
Follow these steps to find the cache:
  1. Stand at the posted coordinates. Look for a wooden mermaid, about 4' tall, hiding in the vegetation. Cacher 'mariemariemarie' wrote and told me that she used to own that mermaid, and moved her to this location. I think she is a fitting marker for the beginning of the street.
  2. Walk down the street, to the far end of the block, with the Mermaid passing on your left. As you walk, make a list of the addresses of the cabins that are still from the original neighborhood. Some things that might indicate an original cabin:
    • a stone chimney
    • a border of stones between the street and the property
    • a small cabin style.
    • windows similar to the other cabins.
    Some of the houses you will see have some of these characteristics, but not all of them.
    Just past #13 is a cabin with no address - call it #11, and yes, I think it is original.
  3. When you reach the end of the street, note the house on the corner on your right. This house stands on the spot where Ken Kesey's cabin used to be. Take a good look at the house and its "Garden Railway". Pretty Cool.
  4. While standing near the "Garden Railway" house, look at the following table and make sure your "original houses" fit into one of the categories. You will be walking back up the street, retracing your steps, so if you need to review any of the cabins, you can.
    If these cabins are original: Look for this item to search for the cache:
    20, 17, 14, 12, 11 Normal street sign
    18, 17, 14, 11, and 4 Stop sign with a small "4 way" sign
    11, 10, 8, 6, and 5 "No Outlet" sign
    14, 13, 11, and 9 fire plug
    18, 16, 14, 13(maybe), 12, 11, 10(maybe), and 4(maybe) orange S M Co road marker.
    18, 17, 16, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10(maybe), and 4 (maybe) "Speed Limit 25" sign
  5. Turn around and retrace your steps back towards the posted coordinates (and presumably, your car). Near house #6 is a tree in the middle of the street with a plaque. Note the date on the plaque. There used to be an old 200-year old oak tree here. I remember it. Ken Kesey used to have a mattress high up in this old tree, and he and his friends would climb up there and get high (in more ways than one).
  6. When you are back at the posted coordinates, remember the date on the plaque. If there was a 4 in the date on the plaque, turn right to look for the cache. If there was a 5 on the plaque, turn left to look for the cache. The cache will be within one block.There is an easy way to extract the cache, if you think about it a bit...

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