The Past Is Actually 250 Feet Away

On Friday, I was waxing on about the past fading away and how it must eventually make way for the new. I failed to factor in one very important thing: I am a dumb@$$. 

So, I went back and looked at the page for the cache that inspired me, and I noticed that the logs mentioned how well-kept the cemetery was. Wait. The cemetery that I thought was missing all the headstones, that was just a forgotten memory beneath my feet? I read the cache page instead of just skimming it and saw that the cache was placed away from the cemetery. I pulled out the laptop and did a little research. It turns out that the cemetery was there and well preserved. The park was even named for the family interred there! As I said before, the past fades away, and nothing remains. That is the way of things. At the same time, the past lives on around us if we only have eyes to see! And you know who has two thumbs and failed his perception check? This guy!

I may be kicking up my regular consumption of caches in the next few weeks. There is a park in Round Rock (just north of Austin in Williamson County) that is pretty much owned (from a geocaching point of view) by a local cacher, Bigguy In Texas. There are about thirty caches in the park, and she is CO for all of them. She just let us all know that she is going to archive them all in the next month, probably because of a Mega that will be there soon. That means I’ve got a short time to get as many of those caches as I can before they go away. Usually I restrict myself to one a day so I can preserve the caches in the area for continuing the streak I supposedly no longer care about, but since these are going away, I guess I better “gather ye caches” while I may! Round Rock, I’m about to spend some time in you!