Moving to Alaska: Day Seven

Today was nearly a zero day. After arriving late last night (9:30 pm or so), I spent today boxing and catching up with my friend Mitch/Der Mad Stamper. He is one of those folks who I only seem to cross paths with every couple of years so it is always a treat to get to spend some time with him. In the morning, I slept in after that very long day yesterday, and we had some breakfast before deciding to go do some letterboxing around the area. Most of the boxes in this part of Kansas were planted by Mitch or his mother so he knew where to find them all. Not that he didn't make me do the finding, he just knew which ones to skip. One of the highlight areas was the cabin where the original poem which became "Home on the Range" was written by Dr. Brewster M. Higley in the 1870's. Mitch and his girlfriend have also opened a new art shop in the town where they live so I got a tour of it as well. All in all, just a nice relaxing day and the cat stayed at their house all day not being in the car so I think he was pretty happy too.

But alas, all good things come to an end so after dinner, I had to drive in to Nebraska to stay just to get a couple hours further along since I would need those hours in a few days. And I did stop for a couple letterboxes WELL after dark on the way north too, of course. One turned out to be a bit of a hike, which I am not always in the mood for when it is late and I am alone but this day I guess I was ok with it, somewhat.

Start: Phillipsburg, Kansas

Stop: Kearney, Nebraska

~100 Miles Driven (Mitch drove for the boxing part of the day so I did not include them here)

~3.3 Miles Walked
12 Letterboxes Found

1 Letterboxes Not Found

0 Letterboxes Planted

Pictures will be posted on Facebook in this album (and the link will be included in all future posts for this trip):

Moving to Alaska Photos