Friday, October 20, 2017

Happy Birthday to our daughter, Lynn today!  It sounds as though they have a nice weekend planned, with Sam coming home.  We struck off to Cloudcroft today, and geo-cached all the way up that winding and very scenic road!  Cloudcroft is an old western town tucked into the mountains, and we found some interesting places today.  We saw several places that sounded like they had apples for sale, but they were just 'junk' stores and used that to draw people in!  We thought it would be interesting to see what they have out here for apples, but not today.  So, we ventured into Cloudcroft and for one cache, we parked right by a quilt shop!  How convenient was that?  Of course, we went in and certainly, I found something that I needed!

They had one tunnel that we needed to go through to get to Cloudcroft, so that was pretty neat.

Another cache took us to this old wooden railroad trestle.  It was built in 1899 and they ceased using it in 1947.

A geo-cache brought us to this beautiful old building.  The cache title is "Where is Rebecca?"  It didn't mean anything to us, at the time, but the cache description encouraged people to go inside and check it out.  We did, and it's a posh, turn of the century building that hosts a lodge and spa, it has an upscale restaurant, and also has a golf course adjoining the property.  As it turns out, Rebecca came to stay at The Lodge, and she disappeared.  No one knows what happened to her.  I tried to find more info on that mystery while we were there, but I wasn't able to.  I'll Google it and add to this if I find something out.

This is the ornate gathering room in The Lodge, and the huge wall hanging, is Rebecca.

It looks like we'll get the Badgers in the morning, so we'll stay home and watch the game, and then we may go bike to some caches that are nearby.  Today was fun, and we traveled to 9,000 feet elevation at our highest point, just north of Cloudcroft.  It was worth the trip.

http://strangestate.blogspot.com/2010/09/redheaded-rebecca-haunts-lodge-at.html

This is the only website that I could find about the mystery woman, Rebecca.  It's an interesting read, if you care to delve into it.  You will have to cut and paste the above website to your search engine to see it.