A Trip to Berryville & Eureka Springs, AR 9/17/2010

This morning we headed first to Berryville and then on up to Eureka Springs to do some caching and sightseeing. Our first cache was in Berryville at the hospital under a gazebo where they have lunch, next was a cache behind the Berryville Visitor's Center, then a cache in the woods behind the Visitor's Center in the campgrounds, then it was a cache in the Berryville Pioneer Memorial Park Cemetery. There was a ton of history in the park as you can see by the pictures. There was the Carroll Progress Newspaper Printing Museum, the Pauly Jail c1874, a memorial and headstones to the pioneers of Berryville who were buried in unmarked graves in this cemetery 1840-1899. Buried here are an unknown number of Negro slaves, 13 Union soldiers, several people whose names were unknown and one man buried here who had been scalped by Indians. There also was an old log cabin with period furniture in it. Next was a cache in the Berryville Cemetery, then 2 caches in Saunders Heights park one in the woods and the other under some rocks where we had a lovely view of the whole city.

Then we were off toward Eureka Springs and a cache at the local airport, next was a cache at the Bluebird Motel, then a cache at the base of a stop sign on a highway pull off, next was a cache behind a storage facility and the next cache was at a local discount store near Rock the Big Monkey. Our last 2 caches were in the Eureka Springs Cemetery the first in a tree and the second near a group of grave sites like we have never seen before. Take a look at the pictures and look at how these grave sites were decorated with almost everything under the sun that you could imagine. The only thing we have ever seen that matches this is some of the voodoo graves we saw in New Orleans. VERY VERY STRANGE!!!!

Those were our last 2 caches as we plan to make 2 trips to Eureka Springs as there is so much to see asnd so many caches we couldn't do them all in one day and besides it's something to do. We stopped and had lunch and headed back to the coach for the day. Well until next time we love and miss you all. Mom & Dad Dori & Dick