An afternoon in Illinois

After lunch back at the Walker farm we had a wonderful visit with David before bidding our farewells. He caught us again geocaching near the farm. The cache is on the right side of the road on the guardrail after turning off the highway to the farm. It is magnetic but not a bolt! Go for it!

After locating that we were determined to get one Illinois cache which was found in a cemetery. The snakeskin should have been the first clue.

I never imagined the snake would be hiding behind the camouflaged 35 mm film can. He wasn't that big but he knew where he was and I did not!


I had quite a reaction and almost got left in the cemetery!

A beautiful drive through the Shawnee National Forest led us to the Garden of the Gods. It was very much to our liking and at first I thought Leon would climb on each and every rock. He does like rock hopping!

When the sandstone was underground it was saturated with groundwater mixed with iron. Chemical changes caused the iron to solidify and the raised dark bands, called liesegang bands, have resisted weathering.


We drove on to Henderson, Ky for the night using caution as we saw many deer out! We got a Walmart fix!