I’ve had a couple of disappointments over the last few days. The first was a cache I went for that I found just fine and then dropped down a hole. It caught on something so it may be possible to pull it back out, but I haven’t had a chance yet and even still question if I could. If I fail to do it right the first time, I fear I’ll drop it where it’s entirely irretrievable. The other was one I’d tried long ago, but couldn’t find because of vegetation and unholy summer heat. I finally decided to try it again, only to find the entire area had become a construction zone. The workers looked at me funny as I drove past them on a road not on my map because it was so new. Only one tree remained of the greenery that had once been there, and I don’t think that it was GZ. On that day, I ended up getting a fairly new cache at a location that has hosted at least three caches that I remember, at least one of which I’ve talked about here. The cache itself was nothing special, an LPC. But the CO is someone of interest to me, a cacher I’ve never met but who is the prime mover behind the Texas Spirit Quest series. I’ve picked up tons of his caches all over the area and all the way up through the Panhandle. I suspect he lives in Austin now. I wasn’t surprised to see his caches pop up here in cemeteries; it was his raison d’etre. But now I’m seeing more mundane hides from him. I don’t know if he’s given up the series (I severely doubt it), but I’d like to thank him for putting some new stuff back on the board. He ought to show up at an Event as well.
My other thought is regarding Pi Day. Yes, yes, I’m aware that there’s souvenirs and that they require getting as many as 14 Mysteries over the course of the weekend. Considering that Pi Day is also the date of Texas Challenge this year, I think I might find those caches. Or maybe I won’t. I’ll be so busy with running the Mega that I don’t even think I’ll have time to cache. I haven’t really had time for it at Challenge for years because I’ve been working to support the various Events. I can only imagine I’ll have less time when I’m running the show. Even more importantly, since Challenge has been around Pi Day for several years, I haven’t enacted my yearly ritual of baking a pie on Pi Day in quite a while. And I probably won’t be doing it again this year.
That’s it. If you expected some explication on geocaching observed through Kantian philosophy and Hegelian dialectic, boy did you come to the wrong place.
Geocaching While Black 