It was another average weekend doing the thing we all love to do. Yesterday, I drove out to the neighboring town of Cedar Park to find a plastic jar hidden under a rock. That’s pretty hardcore, right? All right, maybe not. Around the same time, I received a notice that someone had DNF’d a cache of mine. This normally wouldn’t be of note, except I had just replaced it a few weeks ago, and it hadn’t been found yet. I’m going to go check on it in the next few days, but if it’s gone again so quickly, I’ll have to decide what to do with it.
The day before that, I was a little closer to home. I was looking at the map and noticed an FTF sitting downtown. I figured it was one of the new ones published that day (they had the same CO), but I was wrong. It had been sitting unfound for two weeks! Most of the more prolific cachers in the area live in northern Travis and Williamson Counties. Consequently, caches that are downtown or in South Austin are more likely to sit a little longer, perhaps two or three days before they get found. But two weeks? I kind of get it. As I’ve sometimes said, I’d rather drive to another county than brave downtown. Heck, if I’m driving far enough south, I might as well keep going to San Marcos. But downtown I went, to a park down by Town Lake (yes, the official designation is Lady Bird Lake now, but the OG Austinites know what’s up) and found a bison epoxied into a post cap on a signpost. What an easy FTF it would have been for someone. The hardest part was reaching the top of the pole (which was not hard), but nobody went for the low-hanging, centrally located fruit. Suckers!
Just as importantly, I found a good vantage point from which to photograph my beautiful city. The trees were not green but gray because it’s supposed to be winter here, but still…
The day before that, I went to an Event. Our own local TXg33kG1rl held her first Event, celebrating her one thousandth find. Ironically, the Event was not number one thousand. That was the Virtual at the grave of Sam Bass. But there was a good collection of people, so we ate, talked, and hailed her accomplishment.
That’s it. That’s the exciting geocaching action you get today. Now go find your own!
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