For those of you who don't know, I don't use the Geocaching app.  When I started caching, it was perfectly fine, but it was lacking a function I eventually needed so I forked over a few bucks for Cachly and it has been more than worth it for the six years I've been using it.  … Continue reading Easy Hide, Easy What? →

Last year, I attended a CITO (as part of TXGA's CITO Across Texas) in a west Austin park I had never been to before.  At the entrance to its trailhead there was a large stone structure, obviously something for holding a fire, but too large and oddly arranged to be the remains of a house … Continue reading Answering Questions I Forgot I Had →

Saturday, the Girls and I went out to a thing. When we left to make our way back home, I remembered that I hadn't gotten a cache yet so I dragged them along. We were in Central Austin just south of the river, which was fertile ground since a cacher has recently been dropping new … Continue reading Extra Versus Ephemeral →

A couple of weeks ago, after talking about arguably the most annoying challenge in Christendom, I decided to go ahead and log the Earthcache Challenge.  A few days later, the CO reached out to me about it with an issue.  Two of my claimed finds (both of which I highlighted, by the way) were not … Continue reading A List To Remember (EarthCache Edition) →

I have often taken the opportunity of April Fool's Day to make some kind of clever jape, usually of a geocaching variety.  I have, however, come to the realization that I don't have it in me this year.  In fact, I now know that I am completely burned out on geocaching, writing, and the stresses … Continue reading The Calling Of My Heart →

After months of trying, I finally got around to something I've been wanting to do for some time. I was down a daughter since my younger was part of a play competition outside of Dallas, so my older daughter (the jacket thief) and I went out to grab a couple, one for her, one for … Continue reading Just One More Cache Left →

During Texas Challenge, I was asked about a few of the things we did and, more specifically, how we did them.  I answered to the best of my ability, of course.  Some of them were just brawn, experience, and gumption, but a couple of them have some useful tools.  I resolved to make a post … Continue reading Tools →

I was going back over some of my old, uncompleted challenges yesterday.  Some of them remain uncompleted because they're hard (for me...  A hundred finds in each of ten states?  I don't find extra caches when I'm gathering counties!) while others remain because of my own peccadilloes (I could go find every state name from … Continue reading When Checkers Lie (EarthCache Edition) →

It took me a week, but I am finally upright, cogent, and not generally worn the BLANK out. A lot of people did a lot of hard work (I just stood around and looked pretty) but I still did about thirteen thousand steps a day inside the Expo Center putting out some proverbial fires so … Continue reading Coagulated →

Traditionally, Challenge ends with two Events on the final day: a CITO to thank the community for putting up with us for a week, and our final announcement of winners and the location of the next year's Challenge.  This year was mostly no different in that regard, but really very much different when it came … Continue reading And Now, For The Last… →