Yesterday was my eighth geoversary.  It doesn’t feel like eight years; it still feels like yesterday.  In the last year I found just over 800 caches and picked up 60 new counties, completing my tenth state (Colorado), and hitting three new ones (Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia).  I also dipped my toes back into Utah, but … Continue reading And STILL No Narrative To Interrupt This Time… →

I cracked open my emails to see a short list of newly published hides.  I noticed one of them wasn’t that far from work so I figured it wouldn’t be that big a deal to head over and grab it.  I didn’t have an FTF for the month of June (not that I actually care … Continue reading Déjà Vu 2 (Electric Boogaloo) →

A couple of days ago, I was Austin’s beloved Zilker Park for my daily cache.  There’s an Earthcache there at Barton Springs, the spring that feeds the main pool and, as part of your geologic education, one has to measure the water temperature.  I’ve already done it (thanks to the always prepared Magftplanner), which is … Continue reading Tipping →

This weekend I had to go to Bryan. Why is a discussion for another time (if I ever talk about it) but, as always, I felt like a pilgrim in an unholy land. But once I was done with my business there, I wanted to find a cache. I rode up with someone and it's … Continue reading Not That Kind Of Football →

Many years ago, when I was in junior high school, before middle schools were a thing, I had a bicycle. It was a cheap bike from Sears. It was heavy and yellow. I had so many accidents on it that I actually warped the frame and forks a little bit. It was still rideable, though. … Continue reading Two-Wheeled Suzerainty On Memory Lane →

I spy with my little eye something beginning with "M" ... More gnomes! I went to get a cache and the closest one was in a crevice in some karst. Poking in it and behind some rocks, I found a hidden little imp standing beside a hidden little well, and in the well was a … Continue reading Cryptids →

Sunday morning, I drove out to Dripping Springs, a small town outside of Austin that has over the last decade and change become a bedroom community for the city. Consequently, development has made it feel less like a small town of forty-six hundred people and more like a small (dare I say minuscule?) city, especially … Continue reading A City Of Stars →

So, our previously mentioned South Austin hider has been making significant inroads into the center of the city, enough so that a couple of his new caches dropped between work and home.  I had no hope of getting FTF on either of them (they were both snapped up before I got off work that day), … Continue reading A Kid In A Candy Store →

The Girls and I went out to grab a cache a couple of days ago. The first attempt was a bust; we didn't feel like tracing over every inch of a mildly overgrown mulberry tree for a micro. There was a second one around the block, a regular, that seemed more promising. We parked at … Continue reading A Rash Decision →

I lamented that the Girls and I were not able to make it to Hutchinson this past weekend, especially since it was only nine hours away and I doubted that the next GeoWoodstock would be as close. Apparently I was wrong because the next one is going to be in Baton Rouge, a mere six … Continue reading Sometimes We Get Second Chances →