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Rodeo Rest Stop LbNA #13403 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:dewberry
Plant date:Feb 12, 2005
Location:
City:Houston
County:Harris
State:Texas
Boxes:1
Found by: Boots Tex
Last found:Nov 12, 2007
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:Feb 12, 2005
12/09/2008 -- report of a missing box. Will try to double check and confirm.

Every year in February and March, the whole Houston area goes completely Western for Rodeo. Our favorite part of the whole spectacle is the trail riders. Groups of riders spent up to two weeks “on the trail” heading for Houston, reliving those days when cowboys would drive their herds to market.

The day before the big Rodeo Parade, the different Trail Rides converge and everyone camps out in Memorial Park. The next day, horses, wagons and riders head down Memorial Drive towards downtown for the big parade. We always watch the horses from a vantage point on Memorial close to the park, instead of going downtown for the “official” parade. This box is pretty much a drive by, near where all the trail riders camp. Ironically, you won’t be able to get to it during the actual campout because they close this part of the park, but it’s accessible almost any other time.

Directions:
From Memorial Drive just inside Loop 610, turn onto N. Picnic Lane. Turn left. If the gate is open, go through and to the right at the stop sign (pay attention to the hours). As the loop starts to turn northward, go straight instead of turning to the right. Then turn left at the stop sign. Just after the yellow curve sign is a parking lot on your right (if you see metal gates on your right, you've just missed it--loop around again). If the entrance gate isn’t open, you can easily walk to this spot, by heading through two parking lots back to back, then taking a left at the cut through street. Then go left again at the stop sign. You’ll see the parking area just ahead on your right.

Clues:

To find the Rodeo Rest Stop box, you’ll have to figure out what trail riding song this verse is from.

On a ten dollar horse and a forty dollar saddle,
I was ridin', and a punchin' Texas cattle.

Then, in the next stanza of the same song what day in October did the cowboy leave Texas? That’s your magic number.

From the east end of the parking lot, stand in the middle of the curved cement barricade. At 100 degrees magnetic, walk your magic number of steps to a two-trunked tree. From there, head to your right at 220 degrees for eight steps to a large pine tree. The box is buried at the back of the pine. Please rehide well.

Give us a yodel and let us know how Rodeo Rest Stop is doing.



I jumped in the saddle an' I grabbed a-hold the horn,
The best damned cowpuncher ever was born.

Come a-ti yi youpy youpy yea youpy yea
Come a-ti yi youpy youpy yea