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Let's do Lunch! LbNA #42903 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Blue Butterfly
Plant date:Aug 19, 2008
Location:
City:McKinney
County:Collin
State:Texas
Boxes:3
Found by: JellyBean (3)
Last found:Jan 10, 2016
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFr
Last edited:Aug 19, 2008
Carved by: PSGuru
Planted by: Blue Butterfly

Directions to Erwin Park: (Thanks Puddle Splasher for the directions)
From the intersection of County Rd. 1461 (Lake Forest) and Hwy. 380 (University), go north for 2 miles on CR 1461 until you see a sign for Erwin Park on your right. Turn right on CR 162 and go a short distance to the T and turn right again on CR 164. Go .8 of a mile to Rd. 1006 and turn left where you will see another sign directing you to Erwin Park. Go .3 mile to the entrance to Erwin Park.

To the boxes: Enter the Park, and turn right at the “T”. Drive around past the pond, and take a left at the “T”. Park at the restroom at the top of the hill. Walk down the road in the direction you were driving, and you will find a path on the left. There are two post marking the trail. Your journey begins here.


Box #1 Lunch Time
During the eighteenth century, in English speaking countries “dinner” was used to describe the noon meal. Supper was the lighter meal, but during the nineteenth century, the larger meal was moved to later in the day replacing the lighter meal called “supper”. Lunch was originally intended as a vehicle in which working classes could escape their job and purchase (and sometimes consume) alcoholic beverages, a favourite being pear cider. (who knew?)
Start at the trail head and continue until the path goes down and back up. Just beyond the crest of the hill, you will be standing between two trees. The box is at the base of the tree on the right, on the north side.


Box #2 Tex-Mex
*****this box has been reported missing*****

Tex-Mex first entered the language as a nickname for the Texas-Mexican Railway, which was chartered in southern Texas in 1875. The cusine that would come to be called Tex-Mex, actually originated with the Tejanos (Texans of Hispanic descent) as a hybrid of Spainish and native Mexican foods when Texas was a part of the New Spain and later Mexico.
Continue down the path and stay left at the “Y”. Stay on this path until you come to a tunnel of trees. As you enter the tunnel, count 52 steps to a tree on the left about 4 steps off the path, with a low limb pointing South. Box is behind this tree.

Box #3 All American
There are at least seven different versions of who invented and served the first hamburger as we know it today. According to one claim of the first hamburger, Charlie Nagreen served the world's first hamburger at the Seymour Fair (Outagamie County Fair) of 1885. "Hamburger" Charlie decided to flatten a meatball and place it between slices of bread to increase portability.
Continue down the path, and climb up the embankment that is part of the path. Continue to the second path going down to the left. Follow the trail down to the bottom, where this is a large pecan tree on the left (I did not count the steps, but it’s not far). In front of this tree, there is a log on laying across another. The box is wedged behind these logs.


Hope you enjoyed the hike and the boxes.When you leave, drive down toward the trails (it makes a circle). There is an amazing view!

Please place boxes back in their hiding spot and re-cover well. There are other boxes in this park.