Day 196 of Year Long Road Trip Along America’s Scenic Byways
We started our morning in Canon City. One of its first mayors, a poet, wanted to name the town Oreodelphia. The miners insisted they could neither spell nor pronounce it, and exclaimed, “The place is a canyon…it’s going to be called Canon City.” The Walk for Hope was taking place at a nearby park when we arrived. The event raises money for the Orchard of Hope which supports area cancer patients.
Petey and I took a brief stroll through the park on the way to a few geocaches. I probably only found about half of the caches I set out for today, but it was mostly due to muggles.I found one cache on the far end of the park where there wasn’t much activity, but another cache was placed alongside the track where the Walk for Hope was taking place. Given it had a three out of five ranking for difficulty and I was in the vicinity of 100 people, I had to skip it.
ON THE ROAD AGAIN!