Over the last couple of weeks, I have been spending a lot of time in Gillespie County. I know this is going to blow your collective minds, but sometimes I have to tend to real-life stuff in the real world. It is sometimes annoying, but these things must be done. However, I have reached a point where I tread the liminal space where responsibility and caching meet. How else could I have maintained my streak or managed to travel and still see my daughters? The last two weeks have been no different.
I managed to do quite a bit more caching than usual while I was there. When I’m in Austin, I restrict myself to one a day to make it easier (and by “easier,” I mean possible) to maintain the aforementioned streak. But when I’m out of town? Might as well go crazy. When will I be back there again, wherever “there” is? So, I spent this past week clearing out the cemeteries. I returned to the cemetery of my first Fredericksburg find. I visited the original pioneer cemetery, older even than the Stadt Freidhof. I also managed to do a whole bunch of Adventure Labs. There happened to be a series concentrated on the local cemeteries, which gave added incentive to visit them, as well as two series that involved strolling down Main Street in the historic downtown. That allowed me to enter the Gillespie County Courthouse for the first time. Unfortunately, I was only able to finish one of the downtown series. One of the Labs involved a currently broken audio display at the Museum of the Pacific.
Since nobody there had a script for the audio, I couldn’t get the three words of it that I needed to finish the final Lab of that series. I guess that means I’ll have to go back to Fredericksburg someday. It’s not impossible for that to happen. But not anytime soon. At the moment, I’m tired of the place. Heck, I’m so tired of it that I’m sick of Johnson City, and I only passed through there without stopping.
But one day, I’m sure I’ll be heading for points west or tackling some Geoart, and I’ll return to the German center of Texas. But for just a little while, I’ll enjoy the stationary pleasures of home.
Geocaching While Black 