Yesterday I needed a quick one. I had stuff to do and couldn’t spend a lot of time going to the hinterlands for a cache or heading to the other side of town for one of the newer ones that have recently dropped. However, I had some old business that worked out nicely. Many years … Continue reading If At First You Don’t Succeed… →

So we're a month out from Texas Challenge in Taylor TX. As we get closer, I am running into tons of little decisions and actions that comes from being near the finish line of an undertaking like this. I'm a little worried because, well, I know me and I'm feeling a bit of imposter syndrome. … Continue reading Slouching Toward Taylor →

A few new features have opened up recently on the walking trails in Austin that run along Town (or Ladybird, for the newbies) Lake. As you can imagine, they weren't left alone for very long from a caching perspective. A southern cacher (and by that I mean from south of the river [which means south … Continue reading Urban Renewal →

Yesterday, after I got off work, I went out for my cache of the day. I had evening plans and some errands to run so I had a short window of time in which to find it. One of my errands took me to a mixed-use shopping development so I decided to take another swipe … Continue reading What I Missed →

On any other day, I think I would spend some time talking crap about gnomes (one did show me his backside yesterday), but something else has been bubbling around in my head for a while. When I first started working on Texas Challenge 2026, I remembered that someone mentioned to me that I should look … Continue reading The Wrong Kind Of Competition →

I understand that a lot of people spent yesterday evening observing a Superb Owl. I, on the other hand, was taken by a different kind of bird. I needed my cache for the day so I decided to do something I claim I do not do: let a Treasure influence my choice. I hadn't completed … Continue reading Hike! Hike! Hike! →

I've had a couple of disappointments over the last few days. The first was a cache I went for that I found just fine and then dropped down a hole. It caught on something so it may be possible to pull it back out, but I haven't had a chance yet and even still question … Continue reading Rabbit-Sized Ruminations →

A couple of days ago, I had a really surreal experience finding a cache. I ended up going for one in the middle of Austin proper, in one of the wealthier neighborhoods just west of downtown. Neighborhoods like that always weird me out just a little bit because something about money makes them weird. And … Continue reading Expanded Horizons →

My cache yesterday was nothing special; a bison tube hidden in a hole in a rock, karst to be specific. It was in the parking lot of a church, which was a bit different since one of my standing rules is that I don't mess with a church on a Sunday. But the feelings of … Continue reading Regional Variation →

So this is more pertaining to Texas, but it's something that I find both fascinating and problematic, so I feel it's not a bad idea to address it more generally. A couple of days ago, I learned that Fort Hood (I'm aware of the naming controversy and am going with the current official name) is … Continue reading Little Earthquakes →