5 hours!

We were able to go out caching this morning for 5 whole hours.  We got to see a bunch of new stuff on this trip and we had some adventures as well as met a new critter for the list.

Our first stop was in and around what used to be Reese AFB - now some of the buildings belong to local colleges and the police department.  Some of it stands completely empty as well.  The old barracks we were working on a mystery multi-cache around really reminded me of something off of an episode of "Life After People"

This sculpture was really cool.  He's holding our GPS if you look carefully.  Nice memorial to the old AFB:

They say there's no water around here, but we keep finding some.  There was a house across the street for sale here, and I wonder what kind of price it'd go for.  I know the ones down the street go for a half million bucks or so - we had the opportunity to go to a Christmas party out here one year.  This was in Wolfforth.  Yeah we got kinda lost heading toward Levelland.

So in the process of totally missing Levelland the first time we headed west, we ended up 3 miles down a backroad not far from Frenship HS.  After much rattling and uh-uh-uh voices giggling down the washboardy calliche road, we found the cache in the ONLY place it could be.... 1 lone tree.  Replaced the cache, got in the car and started to back up to the intersection a couple hundred feet back to turn around and head to civilization again.  I looked to my right and saw this guy out the window.  I'm not sure if it was fright for seeing such a large snake alive and in its natural environment or excitement because we got to add another critter to the list, we sat in the car and watched it hightail itself up in to the field.  We probably scared it more than it started us.  Its was about 6 feet long, and is a bullsnake.  For someone who's only really seen snakes in PetsMart in an aquarium before, that's HUGE!!!

 
The picture definitely wasnt his better side, he said, "No Photos Please!" as he zipped up the bar ditch to safety.  There was no way I was leaving the safety of the vehicle to try to get a better angle... hehehe