Non Notiones Callidae*

The girls were in Austin for the long weekend. We did a lot of hanging around together, caught a movie, and, of course, grabbed some caches. One was well out of town on some remote back roads that actually weren’t as remote as I thought they were, near a cemetery cache that wasn’t actually in a cemetery (it was on the road about a quarter mile from a cemetery, which was visible from ground zero). The owner of the Texas Spirit Quest placed the cache, but it wasn’t an official part of the series because (and this was a revelation to me) the cemetery wasn’t old enough. I didn’t even know there were such age restrictions on the series’ cemeteries. If only there was a website or something that listed the criteria and all the locations in the series. I wonder if you could base a challenge on it. I doubt it because it would mean finding caches in the series, which would mean it would be based on the cache names, which is verboten for new challenges.

What mattered was that after we found the cache, my older daughter spent some time driving her sister and me around more back roads in Texas. Another cache we picked up was an FTF downtown. Austin is known for its moonlight towers, and a cacher has placed a couple of new caches at towers where old caches once were. It was my younger daughter’s first official FTF, and it served to remind me that I have not done what I said I would: make lists for each of the girls of caches we found together before they had accounts. I am truly a terrible father from a caching perspective, but I have noted their help here in the blog for all these years, so I guess I’m not that bad.

Look what I got in the mail this weekend! I didn’t get them in time for them to go up to GeoWoodstock this year, but they’re about to start going out into the world! Who knows where they might show up for you! Colorado? California? Alabama? Ohio? Heck, with luck, they may even make it to the other side of the globe! If you find one, it means you need to join us in Taylor next year! And if you don’t find one, you should still join us!

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