So, remember how I did an interview with Groundspeak a few years ago and a follow-up interview last year? Well, guess what? I did a third interview for them, and it published today! Talk about epic timing! If you ever wanted to know more about me and some of the choices I make while caching, here's another window into … Continue reading Here It Is 10: Still Another Redux →

Five years.Five years ...Even as I write the words and look back through the Archives, I can't believe it. I've been writing this for five years. The only reason I am not overcome by the enormity of it is because I felt the same when I hit the one-, two-, three-, and four-year marks. Somehow, … Continue reading A Fifth Year Gone By →

The weekend saw the arrival of International Geocaching Day. In the back of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, there's a cemetery (there always is one) that I had visited once before for a cache. On Saturday morning, I parked under the desperately welcome shade of a tree, walked to a tree stump in the back corner of … Continue reading International Geocaching Day →

I want to make a calculus joke, but will limit myself to a more serious subject. I have a friend who I used to go caching with. Not long after I started caching, I mentioned it to her, and she remembered that she and her ex-husband found a few and how she liked it. We … Continue reading Divergence →

All I was missing to finish Wheel of Challenges was an EarthCache and a Mystery. Mystery caches are all over the city. Annoyingly so, actually. Austin has a very persistent crop of puzzle solvers and (more importantly) puzzle makers, meaning that there's a plethora of Mysteries out there of various difficulties. This is also a … Continue reading Simple Enough →

So, I recently had a chat with some friends regarding the most current incarnation of the Wheel of Challenges, Iconic Cacher. We all have a couple of the same complications: there haven't been a ton of Events around here lately, and some of us have claimed all of some of the cache types in the … Continue reading The Lengths I Will Go To →

A cache has been sitting on my map for years, one of the oldest mystery caches in the area. I had ventured toward it a couple of times in the past, only to realize that the closest way was not viable because of backyard fences. Still, it sat there on my map, taunting me. Yesterday, … Continue reading Yesterday, I Sucked →

... an epic trip to Nebraska might not be in the cards just yet. So, fun fact about the way I usually plan trips: I use a big online mapper, usually the one favored by the computational juggernaut based out of Redmond (it allows twenty-five locations, as opposed to the biggest search engine's ten) to … Continue reading After Further Consideration… →

Over the weekend, I took the new vehicle out for some driving and acclimation. The primary excuse was to get an idea of the gas mileage. For all the flaws of my old car, it got great mileage. The new one on paper is supposed to get similar, or possibly slightly worse, mileage, but the … Continue reading Shakedown Cruises →

Ok, maybe that's a bit of hyperbole. I'm hardly Dorothea Lange or Man Ray, either. But they could only dream of the tools I have at my disposal! As I promised long, long ago, I have had my phone camera repaired! I initially considered replacing my phone, but the cost wasn't to my liking. That, … Continue reading I’m Ansel Adams, Y’all! →