April 9 (Eureka Springs) & 10 (Mountain View and Norfolk)

More pictures from my Arkansas trip from earlier in the month.  More great buildings!  I ended up with 39 posted waymarks and 24 visits from 98 pictures.

Stamps Store - Osage, Arkansas

This is a building on the National Register built in 1898.

Carroll County Courthouse (Western District)

Carroll County is one of ten counties in Arkansas that have two

county seats.

Baxter County Orrery (Sun)

This is the start of a model of the solar system 

where 1 meter on the ground equals 1,000,000 km in space.

The edge of the model is in Yellville, 18 miles away.

Stone County Courthouse

Another great courthouse that I've gotten to post.

Jacob Wolf House

This building was constructed in 1829 and is the oldest 

public structure in Arkansas,

Back to Loading vacation pictures...

From the 11th and 12th of April through Mountain Home, Dardanelle, and Russellville, Arkansas.  I took 131 pictures and I was able to post 41 waymarks and 19 visits.  Highlights include:

Confederate Memorial @ Dardanelle

This once had a working fountain installed.

Yell County Courthouse

I love old Courthouses

Russellville American Legion Post

This building was a WPA project in the 30's and

is now on the National Register.

Pope County Courthouse

Art Deco in design and built in the 30's.

Following the Santa Fe Trail

Sunday, I decided to start working on the new Santa Fe Trail GeoTour.  My wife and I have been finding the monuments along the SFT using a guidebook by Marc Simmons I bought at Philmont in '93.  Of course, I couldn't pass up the chance to waymark, also.  I found 14 geocaches and posted 7 waymarks on 19 pictures.

My first Little Library waymark - this is really a cool concept.

Trails West Sculpture

This used to be on the side of a Kansas Visitor Center - 

of course, the building was torn down as Kansas is 49th in tourism - 

(thanks, North Dakota!) it now stands in Lone Elm Park - 175th and Lone Elm

Trail Park in Baldwin City

The road in the background is an original segment of the Santa Fe Trail

A Waymarking Lunch Break

I decided to take a walk on Wednesday (4\16) to get some pictures of some buildings on the National Register and in the West Ninth/Baltimore Historic District.  I took 25 pictures and posted 10 waymarks from them.  Highlights -

Former Kansas City Dime Museum.

A place Kansas Citians used to go for culture and 

to see the more "unusual" entertainments.

New York Life Building

This building, at one time, was the tallest 

building in Kansas City.

Kansas City School of Law

Harry S. Truman took law classes here.

Springfield to Mountain Home (or how a two hour drive takes seven!)

Nice warm day yesterday for the first official day of the Spring vacation!  Temps in the upper 50's allowed for 6 geocache finds and 70 pictures to be taken.  Nothing has been processed yet, but some of the pictures turned out well...

Ozark County Courthouse - Gainesville, Mo.

A very nice lady asked me where the tractor pull was being

held.  I guess my Kansas University T-shirt and camera wasn't

screaming "TOURIST" loud enough!

Douglas County Courthouse- Ava, Mo.

I'd REALLY like to know the story why the courthouse

no longer sits on the square and the square is a large parking lot.

My first low water crossing waymark (hopefully)

This was at a roadside park north of Ava - we had our

first picnic here at this park.

I HATE CABOOSE CACHES!!!!!  Found this one very 

quickly, though.  This nice example is in Rogersville, Mo.