Socioeconomics?

Or some kind of crap like that?

I haven’t looked at many cities in a caching capacity (well, OK, I’ve looked at London and Istanbul because a man can dream, right?), but in Austin, I’ve noticed that some areas are devoid of caches of any kind.  West Austin (a traditionally wealthy area) and the surrounding neighborhoods are incredibly sparse.  East Austin (the traditionally poor, Black and Hispanic area) contains giant multi-square-mile holes.  Well, I’m hoping to rectify that in the very near future.

I hope to drop four or five caches around East Austin over the next two weeks.  There are several untouched parks and a good-sized greenbelt with only one. But the real aim is to make a Multi-cache that will drag people all around East Austin.  Oddly enough, there aren’t all that many Multis in Austin to begin with.  While there has been an upswing in Multis in the last year, most of them seem to have been placed by the same longtime area cacher.  So, I want to add one of my own.  Of course, there are two minor stumbling blocks: (a) I’ve never done a Multi before, and (b) I need special places to place the beginning and end.  Once I find the spots (and with a little bit of luck), the Multi can be placed by Christmas.  I plan on making it relatively easy so that newbie cachers will be attracted to it.  A lot of Unknown and Multi-caches tend to be pretty highly rated, and I think that drives away newer cachers (there’s a different local cache placer who specializes in puzzles, and I don’t even consider trying them because they’re really hard, obscure, or both).  That said, a seven-leg Multi will be an adventure, I hope.  If anybody reading this has experience with Multis, don’t hesitate to make suggestions or offer ideas.  I’ll accept advice anytime.

And, because you have sat through this relatively boring stuff, I give you the gift of a non sequitur:

I found a cache today near this giant metal chicken.  How’s that?