Walking the Path of History

Okay, who's going to stick their hand in there?

Pony TB poses by the Woodlawn Manor horsies

July 22, 2012 - The second cache of our day was on the Slave Trail of the Underground Railroad in Silver Spring near Woodlawn Manor.  We have been here SO MANY times for caches!  We even have an appointed place to put the bamboo stick we use as a "magic wand" for getting rid of spider webs as we geocache.  This one we found without too much trouble and without any snakes. I call that a WIN-WIN!  It was a really nice path and a good hike although it was probably a lot longer than it had to be due to our navigation errors on where to park. We had major trouble actually figuring out where to begin this and it took us three tries driving, parking, and walking before we ended up at Woodlawn Manor. We first parked at Sandy Spring Friends School and even got on the right trail but we were afraid we were on the Adventure Park "no trespassing" area so we left and went to Woodlawn Manor where we were positive that the Slave Trail is.  It turns out that 3/4 of the way through our hike we ended up RIGHT at the same place we started when we parked at the Sandy Spring Friends School so obviously we were on the "right track" with that trail and it would've ended up being a much easier hike! No matter though, it was a nice day, not too hot, and the trail was great. We found the cache without any problems. The Lorax Gang took the Pony tracker bug and I took Waldo. Now I know where he is! We left a Gnome tracker bug and a cool bouncy ball that lights up.  Of course taking so long on the trail meant that we all were going to be late for our next event which was a cook-out at the pool, but as you know, geocaching ALWAYS takes precedence!