Last night, I attended an Event devoted to the winter solstice. Local cachers have been putting it on each solstice for a decade (long before I started), though it was suspended during the Time of Cholera. I was impressed by the turnout. Twenty or twenty-five people showed up (including a few folks I don’t know that well and recent travel alumnae 4everlyn, Krissy4884, and Razorbackgirl) to eat (mediocre) barbeque and talk lives, holidays, and caching. Some of the news was good (one of us who just recently had heart surgery was in attendance); some news was bad (one of us who has cancer has to start a new treatment); but (as in days of old) we feasted, looking forward to the end of early darkness and the return of longer days.
Of course, there’s a souvenir for that. I, of course, got it on the first day it was available. It was nothing epic, though. I went to a nearby town with a bunch of Adventure Labs and picked up most of them, along with a Traditional, and Robert was your mother’s brother. You’ve still got today and tomorrow to get it done, and twelve caches shouldn’t be that hard if you have any amount of cache density in your area. I am also spoiled by the cache density of Texas, so I can understand if it turns out to be difficult for some cachers. I can only hope that, wherever you are, it’s not difficult for you.
Speaking of cache density, never let it be said that I don’t listen to the hoi polloi! After soliciting opinions and making an unrelated promise, I have decided that I will at some point hold my nose and return to my least favorite city in Texas. And, from a caching perspective, I guess why not? Dallas and the surrounding counties collectively account for over ten thousand of Texas’s almost seventy thousand caches. I tend to avoid those counties because I avoid the despised city itself. But why should I deny myself? That doesn’t mean I’m going to hang out there, of course. But there’s no reason I shouldn’t return to the county. Maybe I’ll stay away from the city proper and stick to the hinterlands that have been merged into the greater metropolis. I think I can live with that. Heck, there are cachers up in those areas I’m quite fond of who I rarely see because I avoid the area. Well, maybe it’s time to give some of them a visit. Just perhaps not inside Loop 12, though.
Geocaching While Black 