Almost Pleasant

A couple of nights ago, it rained. My grandfather told me stories about the falling sky water, but I never believed them. I thought they were just myths from the olden times, but no, I saw the miracle with my own eyes! Ok, maybe I’m being a little melodramatic about the rain, but I haven’t seen any in a long time. It also means that when I got up yesterday, the temperature was cooler than usual. I must admit that meant it was in the high eighties, climbing to the nineties, but that was better than the hundred-plus temps we’ve been seeing for the last few weeks.

I set off later than I had intended. I wanted to head out early in the morning while it was even cooler, but my Sunday morning bed held me in longer than expected. It was quite insidious. But I managed to get out in the “cool” weather eventually. My first attempt left me a little cold (metaphorically), a rock cache hidden amongst a small bed of rocks. I gave it about ten minutes before realizing I just wasn’t feeling it. I readjusted to a nearby Multi-cache. I drove half a mile down the road to a nearby ice cream stand. The redirector was something I could see from the car, making it easy enough to get corrected coordinates. Then I drove a mile in the opposite direction to a parking lot, and near that parking lot was a line of trees, and in one of those trees was the cache.

Yeah, it was nice to find a cache. Heck, it was nice to get out of town the day before to both grab one and hide one. But I’ve been missing the road a lot. I was talking to someone about Chicago recently. I was talking to someone else about Mississippi (and my ambivalence). I still have a hole in my map near Springfield. All of Tennessee beckons through the Port of Memphis. New Orleans is only eight hours away from Austin, four counties from Alabama, and six counties away Florida. I need something to get my travels back on track. I know it will be soon-ish, just a couple of months. That’s not long (Seattle, almost a year ago, only feels like yesterday), but it feels so far away right now. But it will arrive, and that right soon. Patience…