A LILlPUTIAN CATHEDRAL--
Leads this photo potpourri

Wytheville is in the pointy end of Virginia where two big highways collide (I-77 and I-81).  As the sign says, "One of America's Smallest Churches" is here.

As endless traffic snarls and belches along near-by, this tiny biblical oasis offers travelers a gentle and relaxing reminder there is a bigger reason for all things.

This sanctuary also serves nicely as a geocache.  It's latitude and longitude are posted so geocachers world-wide may stop by and "find" it whenever in the neighborhood of Western Virginia, USA.

After rattling down I-77 for several hundred miles from Eastern Ohio it certainly was a delightful and calming respite from the hassle of interstate travel.  Note the kneeling bench beside Sue's left leg.

A little farther South in our journey, Jacksonville, FL to be exact, Sue is pictured just north of downtown where we logged a cache in a park in Springfield, my daughter TJ's neighborhood.  We camped there that night and enjoyed a delightful dinner with she and son Eli.

 
A week or so later we had settled into our snow-birding digs and were geocaching near Port St. Lucie, FL when we encountered this critter loitering in the coastal sea grapes.  This monstrous arachnid was a toy but it certainly gives one pause when encountered in the sub-tropical brush.  Actually, it wasn't the cache we were in search of so we have no idea why it was hanging around.

On another caching outing we enjoyed lunch with Linda Adkins (Marion, OH) and Mike Friedman (Columbus), geocaching and square dancing friends who winter near us just a chip shot north of our dining venue, Cobbs Landing at the town marina in Ft. Pierce.