Day 6 of our 2018 Jumbo Road Trip.
Monahans, TX. to Monahans, TX. A rest day and visit with Donna’s brother day. But first, we got up early and headed just a few miles east of Monahans to do a little geocaching in the Sandhills State Park. We parked in one spot and followed the road for a little under a half mile through the campground to the first cache.
After signing the log we thought it would be cool to walk directly across the dunes to the other cache about a mile away. We made it to about halfway before giving up and getting in the car to drive over to the next one. Turns out it was fun to walk on the dunes, but not that fun.
Much to our chagrin, the second cache was hidden in the middle of the dunes, so we ended up having to “bushwack” our way across the sand about an 1/4 of a mile one way. On this section though there was a lot more desert vegetation making the sand firmer and easier to walk on than the nothing-but-sand sand first trek.
The third and last cache was an Earth Cache where there is no actual container, but questions to answer. There were three questions that needed answering here and we couldn’t find the answers in the usual places, ie. the informational kiosks or signs on the trails. So we went inside the visitor’s center and asked the ranger, she must get that a lot as she had them written down right at the front desk.
We were four for four today as we had picked up one in the town of Monahans itself before making it out to the stat park.