Our First Day in Platte City 8/24/2010

It was our first day in Platte City so we loaded a few caches into the GPS and were off with Muffy and Raggs. There weren't any really good historical or interesting caches today. Our first cache was right here in the campgrounds near one of the cabins in the woods.

Next cache was at the former site of Noah's Ark Covered Bridge. The bridge is no longer there as it was damaged by a flood in 1965, salvaged and moved to the Platte County Fairgrounds in Tracy, MO and then it was blown down by high winds in 1978 and never rebuilt. The next cache was on Covered Bridge Rd. on a sign post.

Then it was off to Platte Ridge Park for 2 caches along the trails both in trees. Then it was off to a Platte City subdivision called Summit Way and 2 more caches one in a tree and the other in a light post. Our last cache was in a very very small cemetery just outside the Summit Way development on a small hill. It evidently was a family cemetery from a family that had owned the land before the houses were built because all the markers, except one, had the same last name. One of the markers dated back to 1828.

Then it was on back to the coach for the afternoon as we have had a few job offers through the Workcamper program and we had to look into them and respond to the offers as soon as we could. Well that's about all from here for today so until tomorrow we love and miss you all. Mom & Dad Dori & Dick