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Today was a good day, spent on the backroads (both paved and dirt) with my daughter and my friend Tony. We visited several geocaches, and located several benchmarks as well.

We saw a golden eagle perched on a large fencepost, a cottontail rabbit, and something that could have been a mountain lion or just about anything else of that size.

We saw a curved bridge. You don’t see many curved bridges…

We saw a feed supply store that probably used to be the town railroad station. We also saw a lot of rain!

We saw farms, and the vivid early season green colors in the grass and trees. We saw a seasonal stream flowing across the road we were on. We saw several verdant, pastoral valleys.

We saw a fountain of mud spray up from the rear tires on the Jeep more than once. We saw a lot of mud in fact: on our shoes, our pants, our jackets, our hands, and always more again on our shoes.

Did I mention that today was a good day?