Avenged!

So, I was out one afternoon, intent on getting a cache for the day. Sometimes, when I’ve got nothing pressing, I’ll pick a direction and just go for a while before grabbing a cache. Not only does this often take me outside my normal hunting grounds, which is useful when you’re keeping a streak (even if you don’t officially care about it), but it’s also a nice chance to leave the madding crowd behind for a while. I decided to go south, then put on a podcast and just went. About halfway through the podcast, I noticed I was coming up on San Marcos, but I decided to keep going. There was no way I was going to go as far as San Antonio, and I had to stop somewhere. I thought about it as I drove through town, considering New Braunfels, but then it dawned on me. I’d already come this far. I might as well go back to Bulverde! I routed to it in Google Maps, aware this time of the latter’s perfidious nature, and kept driving.

I reached the same place I had arrived before, a commercial district just off a highway, and continued on to a grocery store to pick up some lunch and the cache in the parking lot.  In theory, that cache should have been close enough to complete my reason for being there, but this being my second visit, I didn’t want to take any chance on having to make a third.  I made a turn into the town proper.  I wound down the tree-lined roads and made my way to a park about five hundred feet behind city hall.  If you’re going to get a cache in a town, that’s about as close as you can get to the center.  The “park” was less a park and more a field stretching back to the road.  On the other side of the road was the Texas equivalent of forest.  I pulled off onto the forested side of the road and then climbed up to the level of the tree roots.  I looked left.  I looked right.  And there it was!

It’s always nice to find an ammo can in the wild.  The CO hid it in honor of his grandson, so I can respect that.  It’s also well enough visited that I felt comfortable dropping in a couple of trackables I’ve been carrying since I came back from the Northeast.  I also began to consider my future path.  I came to Bulverde for a challenge, but there’s still work to do.  Most of the remaining towns should be easy.  An overnight (possibly a hard day trip) in the Houston area should take care of the southeastern portion.  An overnight to the Dallas area should take care of the northern portion.  There’s a northeastern component.  I can drag the girls along for that when I visit, though I suspect I should break it up into two trips lest there be a mini-revolt.  The really interesting bits will require a trip to the Rio Grande Valley and a probable overnight return to the Panhandle.  But those are thoughts for later.  I was in no rush.  At that moment, I had scratched another town off my list.  That was enough.