What has been done will be done again.  There is nothing new under the sun.  Or some kind of crap like that. I grabbed a daily cache at another one of the murals that had recently received new hides.  I knew this one well.  Not only had I grown up in the area, but I … Continue reading What Has Been Will Be Again →

Obviously, I made it home. What have I been doing in the meantime as I've been regaling you with tales of Longview and Texas Challenge? Stuff. Things. Things and stuff. You know. The usual. For those of you interested in sports (or merely "sport" if you're from across the pond), I noticed a fairly new … Continue reading Local Interest →

... we had to face the music: all good things come to an end. But at least we could enjoy one last hurrah! Well, actually, two last hurrahs. We started with breakfast at a local eatery that I wasn't aware of. Credit where credit is due: L-Town has a surfeit of decent breakfast places, and … Continue reading In The End… →

Once again, we gathered to see old friends and to cheer on the new finishers. As was said to the assemblage, every state has a county challenge, but none has pride in the accomplishment as we do. Nobody celebrates completing Nebraska. Nobody celebrates completing Maine. Nobody celebrates completing Georgia or California or Illinois. But people … Continue reading The 10th Annual TCC Finishers Reunion (& Bar Crawl) →

When the doors opened Saturday morning, we all arrayed ourselves in our various panoplies, waiting for opening announcements to be made. Unfortunately, you'll have to imagine the sight this year. I was more in team captain mode than correspondent mode. A pressing concern almost derailed our efforts: Team CenTex lost a couple of people, one … Continue reading The 21st Annual Texas Challenge and Festival →

I have been coming to Longview and the area frequently since 2005 (or thirteen years BC [Before Caching]), and I’ve been seeing the changes over the last two decades.  It’s always felt to me like a city of fifty thousand with thirty thousand extra people stuffed into it.  That still makes it, Texas’s fifty-second largest … Continue reading The Run-Up To… →

Good news, folks! I made it back from L-Town with a minimum of muss, fuss, or trauma! It was a fun time full of highs and lows, though I must admit, it was a little different for me than most Challenge trips. Usually, with one exception, I've traveled somewhere I hadn't previously spent much time … Continue reading Worn And Torn, Metaphorically Speaking →

I pulled into a bar parking lot in Kilgore, a town a short distance from Longview. The last time I had been at that bar was over fifteen years ago, doing karaoke with my now ex-wife. This time, I had a new memory to attach to the place. I wasn't able to make it to … Continue reading Events, With Big And Little “E” →

I celebrate a number of holidays that are standard for most Americans: Christmas, Thanksgiving, and the Fourth of July. I also observe a number of personal holidays that some would find puzzling, such as the birth, ascension, and death of the only Emperor of the United States. One holiday that seems to straddle the line … Continue reading My Personal Pantheon Of Holidays →

Contrary to what you might think, not every day (or weekend) is full of adventure. Sometimes it's just life with a little caching thrown in for good measure. And sometimes the caching is not as much as I would like. But I got a few things of note, so they at least get honorable mentions.I … Continue reading Mister Excitement! →