These Boots are made for Walking Series – Boot #1
This is a 4 cache series with a 5th bonus cache. The cache is not at the given coordinates. Answer the question at the top of this cache page in Certitude to get the final coordinates for this cache. Just above the Certitude Icon is a Bonus Cache question. The answer to that question will be found near this cache. You must collect all four Bonus Cache answers and enter them into Certitude on the Bonus Cache page (GC9AZ0J) to those final coordinates.
Cache Question: What do the students call their team? The (One Word)
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – The “Las Botas de Mercedes” collection in downtown Mercedes, Texas, received an Islander infusion with the addition of a boot bearing the logo of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. The statue, measuring more than five-feet tall, was unveiled in a formal ceremony on Oct. 21.
The “Las Botas de Mercedes” collection in downtown Mercedes, Texas: The boots are part of a public art project and an initiative to promote higher education, as they are all decorated with school colors and logos. Each boot, manufactured by ACSC Signs in Weslaco, Texas, costs $2,400 to be designed, created and installed. Texas A&M University, University of Texas, Notre Dame and other prominent universities are part of the collection.
Boot #31: https://tamucc.edu/news/2016/10/102116%20Mercedes%20Boot.html#.YJLebKFOmsw
Mercedes, Texas is considered the boot capital and it welcomes visitors and residents alike to find their alma mater’s boot in The Boots of Mercedes Collection.
Boot Images: https://www.offourrockerrv.com/adventures/boots-made-walking/?unapproved=5930&moderation-hash=e1a39ab06554aec2b4ec6a9464c8038d#comment-5930
Permission to usse images given by David and Kathy Boland of Off Your Rocker RV Blog. 5/6/2021
Bonus Cache Question - look at the nearby historical marker: What year did Hector Garcia move his family to Corpus Christi?
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