So, our previously mentioned South Austin hider has been making significant inroads into the center of the city, enough so that a couple of his new caches dropped between work and home. I had no hope of getting FTF on either of them (they were both snapped up before I got off work that day), but it was nice to have a cache that I didn’t have to go out of my way for. One of them was at a little free library outside of the Elisabet Ney Museum, where I had once performed one of the stealthiest grabs in my caching career. This one was simpler and cuter, but not actually what I expected. Considering the CO has a bunch of library hides all across the area, I had imagined that perhaps he had come to some arrangement to do something inside the museum and I thought how cool that could possibly be (if it was somehow hidden in the tower, that probably have been an automatic favorite from me). That didn’t matter, though. A cache is a cache is a cache, therefore inveni, inscripsi, reposui. I started to make my way home, but instead of going the most direct way, I decided to drive through the neighborhood. All of a sudden, I heard myself let out a … noise? I’d call it a squeal if I had a higher voice, but regardless it was an excited utterance.
Many, many moons ago, I found a milestone cache outside one of Austin’s best candy shops (the true premiere candy shop is closing down after 141 years so pour one out for Lammes Candies, folks). Apparently, they opened a second location in the neighborhood! I parked so fast it was almost criminal! The last thing I need in my life is candy, but I couldn’t resist picking up a small bag of sours (luckily, they didn’t have my favorite ones, so the bag stayed small). The wheels in my head began to turn as well. While I have found caches nearby in the past, they’re long archived at this point. What kind of candy-based cache might want to live there? Could I convince them to let me hide one? If so, how could I make it special from a candy-theming perspective? The mind boggles!
Geocaching While Black 