I wouldn't call myself a souvenir hunter, though I have gathered quite a number of them. I never let one pass me by if it is in view. I've brought Signal back to HQ. I was a Peak Performer and an Ultimate Explorer. I walked down Memory Lane, solved the Mystery at the Museum, and … Continue reading One Foot In Front Of Another →

But today I will still not fall into the trap of cute and digestible bon mots. I received a message from a member of the Scorpion Expeditionary Force.  Many of the Geoarts we had been working near Granger were archived yesterday!  We were crushed!  We had found over five hundred of them in the last few months, … Continue reading Yesterday Is History, Tomorrow Is A Mystery →

We converged on a restaurant in Georgetown for some breakfast. There is a monthly gathering of cachers that meets early on the first Saturday of each month, so we all dropped in to it because it made for a good starting place. After some breakfast tacos, a hearty handshake and chat with a German cacher … Continue reading Attack! Always Attack! →

A couple of days ago, I played hooky from work for a special reason. A longtime reader of the site was visiting the area for a week and wanted to come down to Austin to see what the city has to offer from a caching perspective. Would I ever pass up a chance to meet … Continue reading A Different Special Guest! →

What has been done will be done again.  There is nothing new under the sun.  Or some kind of crap like that. I grabbed a daily cache at another one of the murals that had recently received new hides.  I knew this one well.  Not only had I grown up in the area, but I … Continue reading What Has Been Will Be Again →

Obviously, I made it home. What have I been doing in the meantime as I've been regaling you with tales of Longview and Texas Challenge? Stuff. Things. Things and stuff. You know. The usual. For those of you interested in sports (or merely "sport" if you're from across the pond), I noticed a fairly new … Continue reading Local Interest →

... we had to face the music: all good things come to an end. But at least we could enjoy one last hurrah! Well, actually, two last hurrahs. We started with breakfast at a local eatery that I wasn't aware of. Credit where credit is due: L-Town has a surfeit of decent breakfast places, and … Continue reading In The End… →

Once again, we gathered to see old friends and to cheer on the new finishers. As was said to the assemblage, every state has a county challenge, but none has pride in the accomplishment as we do. Nobody celebrates completing Nebraska. Nobody celebrates completing Maine. Nobody celebrates completing Georgia or California or Illinois. But people … Continue reading The 10th Annual TCC Finishers Reunion (& Bar Crawl) →

When the doors opened Saturday morning, we all arrayed ourselves in our various panoplies, waiting for opening announcements to be made. Unfortunately, you'll have to imagine the sight this year. I was more in team captain mode than correspondent mode. A pressing concern almost derailed our efforts: Team CenTex lost a couple of people, one … Continue reading The 21st Annual Texas Challenge and Festival →

I have been coming to Longview and the area frequently since 2005 (or thirteen years BC [Before Caching]), and I’ve been seeing the changes over the last two decades.  It’s always felt to me like a city of fifty thousand with thirty thousand extra people stuffed into it.  That still makes it, Texas’s fifty-second largest … Continue reading The Run-Up To… →