Cloverdale, Indiana to St. Louis, Missouri

Thursday morning, September 12, began with a bit of rainy and steamy start but as we set off to go see the nearby Cataract Falls in Leiber State Park it cleared up.  The falls are Indiana's largest waterfall and while the water level was a little low,
what made it underwhelming was all the litter in the water and the surrounding banks.  

Cataract Falls, Leiber SP

It is so disappointing the propensity that litter and pollution is all over our country.  This is something that really aggravates me and from my travels in Europe I know there are places in the world where people take pride in keeping the land litter-free.  What is it about our country where people just throw their trash without a care or thought?  Grrrrr...needless to say, it wasn't worthy of more than one photograph. 

Later on that afternoon, Joyce and I took a side trip along the way west for a geocache located near Terre Haute, Indiana.  We made our way along some back roads near a little park called Fowler Park and eventually found this little grass-covered lane on the edge of the road to park near a metal gate.  It was a nondescript rural area  with an easy half-mile hike into the woods. Most of the hike was flat but the last bit we were climbing around a steep ravine to locate the geocache.  It was nice to get out of the car and stretch our legs for a little exercise and this particular geocache was cool for the fact that it was a one of the older ones in the country.  Worked up a sweat in the humidity and marked off a geocache for the state of Indiana.  Joyce's goal is at least one geocache per state in our journey. We drove through the rest of Indiana and all of Illinois with our final destination that evening of St. Louis, Missouri and visiting my dear friend Cathy.  

-Kelly