I picked up another Mystery Cache off the list a couple of days ago from an out-of-the-way (for me) park I had visited before. Normally, I’m totally fine with getting to some out-of-the-way places to grab a cache (though I’ve noticed a marked tendency to go any direction other than south because I don’t want … Continue reading So Many Complaints! →

On Sunday, I attended an event hosted by some cachers visiting from New Hampshire. How could I not? They held it down the street from my home! Being the terrible correspondent I am, I neglected to get photos of the festivities, but there was conversation and laughter in the chill under a lunchtime sun. I … Continue reading A Puzzling Gift →

The original plan for the weekend was for the girls to come down from L-Town to Austin and go hiking, working on Carrot Killer's newly created D5/T5 Virtual. Rain would have ruined the plan had it occurred that way. Instead, in an unexpected twist of circumstance, I ended up having to drive up there. It was still … Continue reading My Partner In Grime →

Sometimes I do things that are not caching related. It's not something I like to broadcast widely, but it is true. Last night, I went to dinner and a musical with an old friend. When he headed home, I had three hours to find a cache for the day. I had seen a few new caches publish earlier in … Continue reading Blackbird Singing In The Dead Of Night →

The day before my jaunt toward southeast Texas, I was surprised to see a notification for a newly published cache, not because it never happens, but because it was in one of the socioeconomically poor areas of town I have mentioned in the past. The cache posted midmorning, but I lazed around during the day, doing … Continue reading New Treasure On An Empty Map →

So, I should probably start at the beginning. I’ve written about some of this before, so you can skip the next paragraph if it’s already familiar.There’s a challenge here in Texas called the I’ve Been Everywhere Challenge. Most of you have probably heard the Johnny Cash song (which is actually a cover of a Hank Snow song, … Continue reading As In The Days Of Blessed Memory →

Earlier this week, I was lucky enough to be interviewed by a journalism student from the University of Texas at Austin about geocaching and some of my related antics. I talked about some of the places I'd been and some of the best caches I'd seen over the years. Toward the end, she mentioned that, as part … Continue reading What Men Must Know →

So, I was out one afternoon, intent on getting a cache for the day. Sometimes, when I’ve got nothing pressing, I’ll pick a direction and just go for a while before grabbing a cache. Not only does this often take me outside my normal hunting grounds, which is useful when you’re keeping a streak (even … Continue reading Avenged! →

The girls were visiting from L-Town this weekend, so I took them out to work with me, grabbing some of those caches that are going away soon! We got to the park, found a spot near the first cache, and then went for a walk. It all began with an old-school Letterbox Hybrid. There were two stages, … Continue reading No Stone Unturned, No Tree Unclimbed →

Wednesday evening was a happy affair for a silly reason. I avenged an old DNF. The silly part was that it wasn't that hard of a cache. I knew exactly what it was, but I had gone back to look for it four different times over the last few years. I just couldn't find it, but I knew that … Continue reading A Tale Of Two Evenings →