To Vincennes and beyond

Wooden sculpture of Tecumseh

Yesterday I went letterboxing in Vincennes.  I went with my boxing buddy who recently turned 70.  It is great boxing with her because she doesn't give up easily.  She was stung by a hornet on the head while we were out and she really didn't fuss about it.  If it would have been one of my kids we probably would have just turned around and went back home even though we were an hour away.

We started off in Vincennes.  Vincennes is in Knox county on the Wabash River in southwest Indiana.  It was founded in 1732 and is the oldest continually inhabited European settlement in Indiana and one of the oldest settlements west of the Appalachians.  The city has a lot of history and I would love to plant a box there.  For more information you can go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincennes,_Indiana.

All together we looked for six boxes there and found two (if you count web boxes).  One of the boxes that we could not find was a mystery box planted near the wooden sculpture of Tecumseh.  I was very disappointed that it was missing.  We also when to Ouabache (Wabash) Park.  It was supposed to have 3 boxes.  Two of them were planted by a park ranger in January but we could not find them and no one else has found them either.

George Rogers Clark Memorail

When we left Vincennes we came back south and grabbed a letterbox/geocache hybrid and went on to Mt Carmel, Il.  We found that one and moved on to Bone Gap.  We could not find that one and it was the end of the clues that I brought.

But my boxing buddy took me to one in Albion and she had brought a clue for a box in Fairfield.  We found both of those and started heading for home.  We had dinner at a Subway and made it back to Evansville just before 8pm.

It was a beautiful day to be out letterboxing.  We only found 6 of the 11 boxes we went for but it was so nice to be out and about.