Or some kind of crap like that!Saturday was normal, almost mundane. I went out and got a cache, more specifically a YARN (Yet Another Road to Nowhere). From reading the logs, I thought it was going to be something a little more difficult, but it turned out to be a shotgun shell in a barrier, … Continue reading Making Magic! →

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 →