'Highway 61 Revisited' Mystery Cache
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This cache is not hidden on 'The Blues Highway 61', but it is,
however, hidden near a County Road sign which is -blue-, and has
the number -61- on it. (Sort of).
This cache is NOT located at the published
coordinates. The actual
location may be determined from the information below
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U.S. Route 61 is the official designation for a United States
highway that runs 1,500 miles from Louisiana to Minnesota,
generally following the course of the Mississippi River. The route
was an important north-south connection in the days before the
interstate highway system.
The road is also known as 'The Blues Highway' because it runs
through the Mississippi Delta country, which was an important
source of blues music. Highway 61 has been frequently referenced by
various musicians with roots in the region.
The junction of Highway 61 and Highway 49 in Clarksdale,
Mississippi, is designated as the famous crossroads where,
according to legend, Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul to the
Devil in exchange for mastery of the blues, although it has never
been confirmed as the place that Johnson meant. If the crossroads
in the song were ever meant to be anything other than metaphor,
they could have been any intersection in that part of Mississippi
-- or in the world, for that matter.
(www.wikipedia.org)
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The North coordinate for this cache is: 27°
31.xxx'
The West coordinate for this cache is: 80° 21.yyy'
'xxx' and 'yyy' may be determined from the puzzle below.
You can check your answers for this puzzle on
Geochecker.com.
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Lord, that Highway 61 is the longest road I know
Lord, that Highway 61 is the longest road I know
She run from New York City
Down to the Gulf Of Mexico
(Mississippi Fred McDowell, 'Highway 61 Blues')
Unfortunately, Mississippi Fred got it wrong -- U.S. Highway 61
doesn't go to New York City. Let's revisit the 'Blues Highway' by
taking a 1500-mile road trip all the way from one end to the
other.
(Mileages below are rough-estimated driving miles. They do not
represent 'straight as the crow flies' distances.)
This Louisiana city is the south terminal of Highway 61:
[AEELNNORSW]
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Roughly 80 miles up Highway 61 is this Louisiana city:
[ABEGNOORTU]
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Roughly 160 more miles up Highway 61 is this Mississippi city:
[BCGIKRSUV]
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Roughly 220 more miles up Highway 61 is this Tennessee city:
[EHIMMPS]
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Roughly 295 more miles up Highway 61 is this Missouri city:
[ILOSSTU]
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Roughly 205 more miles up Highway 61 is this Iowa city:
[BGILNNORTU]
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Roughly 80 more miles up Highway 61 is this Iowa city:
[ADENOPTRV]
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Roughly 340 more miles up Highway 61 is this Minnesota city:
[AEEFKLORST]
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5 more miles up lies the current north terminal, in this Minnesota
city: [GIMNOWY]
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Prior to 1991, the north terminal was 125 more miles up what is now
Interstate 35, in this Minnesota city, the birthplace of Bob Dylan:
[DLTHUU]
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The cache is a small, camouflaged, sandwich-size lock-and-lock
container whose original contents included:
Some things that are 'Like Rolling Stones' (Marbles, really),
A Diamond Ring (You'd better pawn it, babe),
A Reincarnation Of Paul Revere's Horse,
A Buick 6 (Sort of. More like a 1970 Chevelle),
A Telephone (One of a thousand that won't ring),
Some Cops (They don't need you, and man, they expect the
same),
A Harmonica and a Siren Whistle (so you can play along with
Bob).
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'Highway 61 Revisited' is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's sixth
studio album, released in August 1965 by Columbia Records, and is
the first of his albums to be recorded entirely with a full rock
band.
Of the album, Dylan himself commented, "I'm not gonna be able to
make a record better than that one... 'Highway 61' is just too
good. There's a lot of stuff on there that -I- would listen
to."
Featuring hits and concert staples such as 'Like A Rolling Stone',
'Desolation Row', and 'Ballad Of A Thin Man', it is generally
considered to be among the artist's best and most influential
efforts.
The first track, 'Like A Rolling Stone', received the top honor of
being ranked #1 in the Greatest Songs Of All Time, as listed by
Rolling Stone Magazine in 2004. A year earlier, the album itself
was ranked as #4 of the Greatest Albums Of All Time.
(www.wikipedia.org)
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'Highway 61 Revisited' (1965) by Bob Dylan
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