where we picked up two more caches, we headed for the Iowa Indian Casino near Whitecloud. This used to be just a Bingo hall where my Mom and Dad spent considerable time. About 8 or 9 years ago they also added a small casino with slot machines. We couldn't resist so checked it out. For a change we actually left the casino with some of their money. We then went in search of a geocache that was the point of beginning of the public land surveys of the sixth principal meridan (I don't what the hell that means but it sounds good). Anyway the cache was a cast iron monument placed high on a bluff near the Missouri River. This point controlled the system of public land surveys in Nebraska, Kansas, and parts of Colorado, Wyoming and South Dakota. First picture shows the bluff where the monument is located, the picture doesn't do it justice, it was almost straight up from the roadway below. We eventually made it to the top, too pooped to do anything except catch our breath and take a couple of pictures. If you look real hard you can see the Suzuki in the middle of the fourth picture. This ended our day and we stopped at the Trails End Restaurant in Rockport, MO on our way back to Glenwood.
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