Social distancing guidelines have been extended for another month at the federal level. I expect something similar is going to be enacted at the state and/or local level. And I live in a more permissible state and in a more regulated city. The governor has done more than I expected and the mayor, though he … Continue reading More Time In The Clampdown →

Yes, we are currently in a global pandemic. The Challenge slipped in right before declarations started flying. Yes, we (except in some of the smaller, sparser counties) are sheltering in place. That has obviously put a crimp on geocaching all over. Events are right out. In Austin, we're under an order to stay home. However, … Continue reading Glove In The Time Of Cholera →

...the final day arrived. On the final day there are two events: a regular event and a CITO. At the event the location of the next Texas Challenge is announced. And when we gathered, the next location was revealed to be in West Texas, specifically, Cisco. But what you see above isn't the event. It's … Continue reading And Finally… →

See all those blue shirts? Those are the shirts of the folks who have finished the Texas County Challenge. Last time I was here, I was just a visitor. This time, I was one of the gang. I even got my blue shirt while I was here. There is a tradition where they bring out … Continue reading 7th Annual TCC Finishers Reunion (& Pub Crawl) →

So a bunch of Team Cen-Tex was having lunch. Our work was done and we were relaxing. We talked about some of the challenge caches we found and didn't find. We talked about real life caches. We talked about our lives and all that good stuff. And then we eventually went our separate ways. Thing … Continue reading The 18th Annual Texas Challenge and Festival: Part the Second →

The first time I was here, I wasn't involved in the actual challenge part. But this time things were different. We all stood arrayed in our in the panoplies of our regions: black, cyan, navy... We, Central Texas, stood arrayed in verdant green and I, the Captain was prepared. All our planning had brought us … Continue reading The 18th Annual Texas Challenge and Festival: Part the First →

I got off work at lunch time and headed over to an event. There was a previous event in the morning to gather for coffee that I missed. I could have taken the entire day off, but I had a few things that needed to get done and I don't work very far away (the … Continue reading The Lead Up To… →

...until the Challenge! So I went to a pre-Challenge gathering! I actually went to another one the night before also, but I actually didn't photograph it. There was another the night before that, but I was having dinner with the girls. I met a bunch of infidels cachers from other regions and we all talked … Continue reading Less Than 24 Hours… →

The days are counting down to the 18th Annual Texas Challenge. Last year when I went, I was a fresh faced noobie, new to the hidden world we inhabit. This year I am the captain of one of the competing teams. I don't usually like to talk about things like this before they're decided because … Continue reading Three Days And Counting →

On Sunday I was lounging around in bed without a care in the world when I noticed an email notification for a newly published cache. There were several actually, but this one caught my eye because it was just over a mile away from home. I'm not exactly an FTF hound, but when one shows … Continue reading FTF! But… →