Sunday Drive Series...Fire! Traditional Cache
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Sunday Drive Series...Fire!
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The West Republic Volunteer Fire Department is one just like thousands located across the country. The firefighters are all volunteers and funds are often hard to come by. Ours are a particularly dedicated bunch with 18 volunteers calling this station home.
Cache is available 24/7 and placed with permission of the volunteers.
About our Sunday Drive Series of caches…
Back in the 60’s & early 70’s, there was nothing, in my young mind, better than piling into the family car to go for a Sunday drive. Gas was cheap but so were wages, so it usually meant we had to scrounge around the house for whatever change we could come up with to fund our adventure. We’d take off in one direction or another, with one of us kids hollering, “left, Daddy, left!” and go wherever the day would take us.
We would drive down dirt country roads or highways that still weren’t paved at that time, looking at how the others live. We would explore cemeteries, parks, bridges, and occasionally a roadside fruit & vegetable stand. If we had enough money, the day usually ended at some Mom & Pop drive-in where we’d buy nickel (then dime, then quarter…) ice cream cones. Life was good and those memories are precious to me to this day.
We started talking about a cache route with the Sunday Drive theme a few months ago and finally have had time to put something together. We wanted a concentrated area of caches so that people could come out to our neck of the woods, enjoy the scenery away from the hustle and bustle of the city, but have enough caches to log to make the drive here worthwhile. The caches aren’t fancy, often the most interesting view is of the stream in the holler, an old tombstone, or the farmhouse across the way. We’ve tried to vary the degree of difficulty so they’ll be fun. The main idea is to relax and enjoy a little taste of Americana that has slipped away with our busy lives and three dollar a gallon gasoline.
So set the radio station to the oldies, roll down your windows, and let your GPS take you back to a simple time and place. We hope you enjoy the ride!
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