No bushwhacking required. Look for a Small Cache container hidden in a remote area along the eastern end of US Route 64. Room for only the log and one maybe two Geocoins but not enough room for much more, so please bring your own writing instrument.
The cache container you seek is placed, with permission, near US Route 64, the longest numbered US route in North Carolina and, at 2,326 miles, one of the 10 longest in the U.S. Stretching from Whalebone Junction in Nags Head westward 604 miles to the Tennessee state line the road passes through Manteo, the easternmost county seat, and Murphy, the state's westernmost county seat, making the phrase "from Manteo to Murphy" a reference to the expanse of the state. After leaving North Carolina US 64 wanders through Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and ends at Teec Nos Pos just southwest of Four Corners Monument in northeast Arizona.
This particular stretch of highway often reminds me of a favorite tv program during my college days. Then Came Bronson was a March 1969 movie pilot that became an American television adventure/drama series. Michael Parks starred as James "Jim" Bronson, a newspaperman somewhat disillusioned after the suicide of his best friend. Buying his friend's Sportster from the widow he heads out along that long lonesome highway bound for the mountains and the plains on a journey of self-discovery looking for a more meaningful reason for existence.
Each program episode centered on some topic of the day or a sign of the times and was one of several that involved long lonesome highways. Notable was the similar early 1960s series, Route 66, and the cult classic movie Easy Rider released in June 1969.
Parks, an actor and a singer, not only played the lead roll in his tv show but also sang the theme song. One that often echoed in my head as I piloted a 150cc Honda along my own long and lonesome highways between an eastern Chesapeake, Virginia, home and college in Johnson City, Tennessee.
By today's standards the motorcycle that shuttled me more than 450 miles across parts of Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee between home and college is considered by some to be little more than a motor-scooter. Since college I have graduated to a larger motorcycle and today I ride a Harley-Davidson Electra Glide Ultra Classic. I have also traveled all of North Carolina's US Route 64 by motorcycle. Although much of the old Route 66 is now I-40, I've traveled several miles of that at well. Plans for traveling the rest of US 64 are still pending and when complete we will depart from our home at Homestead
just north of Manteo that fronts a section of US 64.
Fairly quick First to Find honors go to *A&K*