A few days ago (for reasons, if you must know), I found myself doing something I don’t often do: going back to find an old cache. In this case, it was one I claimed four years ago. From time to time, I’m tasked with looking at and considering their contribution to the caching ecosystem. Every … Continue reading You Take The Good, You Take The Bad →

Well, now I believe it. The promised springlike conditions did, in fact, materialize, as did power after three and a half days. While crews from neighboring cities and towns are still working on outages, Austin has mostly recovered, and I am short-sleeved again (at least for a few days, anyway). I found myself working on … Continue reading Thawn Is An Archaic Word →

Austin received half an inch of ice in the last few days. I'm sure those of you living above the thirty-fifth parallel scoff at the notion that that's even a problem, but we're just not prepared for such winter weather (despite something similar happening just two years ago, but that's a discussion for a different … Continue reading Iced Out →

The day after I got back from scenic L-Town, I had a birthday luncheon to attend. This blocked off most of my day from any serious caching, but that’s all right because everyone needs a day of rest. However, that didn’t mean that I wouldn't get a cache. As the daylight started to disappear, I … Continue reading Weirdness? →

There is a chemistry joke: if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. Well, it was precipitating to beat the band. This weekend, I drove up to scenic Longview, this year's location for the internationally renowned Texas Challenge and Geocaching Festival (note the subtle plug because I'm a hack), to visit … Continue reading Solution/Precipitate →

For the last few weeks, I’ve been finding caches that were placed for or with children. As you can imagine, I’m totally simpatico with that. I just recently had to replace a cache that I hid with my daughters that has turned out to be my most frequently found cache, and memories were so thick … Continue reading You Know…For Kids! →

I was coming home from a thing late in the evening when I realized that I didn’t have my daily cache.  Technically, I don’t need a daily cache since I’m no longer officially keeping up my find streak.  However, I originally said that when I hit the four-year mark, and now I’m closer to five … Continue reading Symbiosis →

Early last week, a Houston cacher said that he was thinking about archiving a scorpion-themed Geoart he owned in Gillespie County. Local cacher and friend of the site, Razorbackgirl, put out a query: did anyone want to go after it before it disappeared? A number of cachers answered the call to action (and I didn't … Continue reading Stinger! →

There’s a Multi-cache that begins in my neighborhood a few blocks away from home. When you get to GZ, you find a yard full of gnome statues. Being not unacquainted with the wily ways of the most benign (and insidious) of the faerie folk, it was not hard for me to divine the location and … Continue reading My Favorite Faerie Folk →

A couple of months ago, I decided to go for a cache, the bonus for an Adventure Lab series, in the middle of downtown Austin.  I parked close to GZ, a monument in the shadow of the state capitol, checked the cache page, and then noticed some people hanging around at the statue.  I waited … Continue reading Chance Encounters →