I feel it is time to offer you all one of my greatest, most closely guarded secrets. I didn't start writing all this so that I could document every county in the United States. I started writing this so that I could make terrible, pun-like jokes to a captive audience! So, assuming nothing goes wrong, … Continue reading Five Thousand, Two Hundred And Eighty Feet of Rock →

The hardest part about an upcoming trip is that it never seems to arrive fast enough. In two weeks, I and five of my caching buddies will be boarding a plane and making our way north. Five of us are finishers of the Texas County Challenge. For one of them, this trip will result in … Continue reading So Close, And Yet… →

Many, many moons ago, the House of PodCacher suggested the idea of holding flash mobs of geocachers. So in 2007, the first World-Wide Flash Mob (WWFM) was born, encompassing twenty events in two countries. People seemed to think it was a good idea because it kept happening, at first every six months, and eventually yearly. … Continue reading Wet For The Wet God! Splash For The Splash Throne! →

Yesterday, I went to get my cache of the day in the parking lot of a nearby park. After a quick search, I spotted it in a tree, farther out of my reach than its T2 would have suggested. It was, of course, little challenge for me. I pulled the pole out of my trunk … Continue reading Phoning It In →

Bear with me, folks.  This one is going to be a bit more of a wander than usual. I think that anyone who has gone beyond a certain number of caches or, especially, Fizzy Loops has run into a certain issue: somewhere along the way, a CO decided to change the Difficulty or Terrain on … Continue reading Two And Two Together →

Yesterday, I took a drive out to McKinney Falls to handle some business for the rapidly upcoming Texas Roundup. I had to re-scout some locations for things I have planned, but I got lucky. One thing I needed to do was talk to the coordinator for the park, but I hadn't been able to for … Continue reading Overlapping Countdowns →

Yesterday was a day like any other from a caching perspective. I got my daily cache from an older series that teaches basic caching terminology such as GPS, Cache Owner, Icon, and Reviewer. Mine was STF (Second To Find, for those of you living under a caching rock for the last umpteen years). I pulled … Continue reading It Taunts Me →

It will probably come as no surprise to you that I have been thinking about states' county challenges lately (at least not if you read the thing). Now, it's possible that I am just generically drawn to any challenge involving acquiring counties, but those do seem to be the pinnacle. A final proof that you … Continue reading A Stately Diversion →

Saturday, I took another drive out to Lampasas. A bunch of other cachers decided to go out and grab some of the more than a hundred caches we've placed out there. I, on the other hand, didn't go out until later in the day. While caching was, as always, the primary goal, our secondary aim … Continue reading A Long Drive, A Short Drive →

After an evening catching up with a friend, it was easy enough to get a Mystery not far from our meeting spot. I first pulled up to a mural on the side of a surf shop featuring a fish with a highly improbable mutation, noted the nature of the mutation, and then used the corrected … Continue reading You Win This Time, Muggle! →