We visited a few geocaches over the weekend and had some success. We first visited a local park but were unable to locate the cache. After that, we headed over to a local wildlife preserve and hit the trail. The walk was nice and the weather was perfect. It did turn out to be a little longer trek than first thought. While out on the hike Natalie rode most of the way aboard daddy’s shoulders. For the last 200 yards or so I had Hyrum and Natalie on my shoulders. Now I know what it would feel like to go for a walk if I were 80 lbs heavier.
We found the cache which brought insight into life on the Kansas prairie 180 years ago. The preserve was a prairie range preserved as it would have been 180 years ago except for the trees. When looking at it today it is easy to ask the question, “why did they build stone walls?” Answer: there were no trees in sight at the time the walls were built. It was hard to image that every tree in sight was the offspring of trees brought to the prairie. It reminded me of listening to Grandpa Dunnington talk about his Grandfather bringing a stake for his horse his first time to Drexel because there were no trees in sight to tie his horse to.
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