I went to get my cache for the day at a higher education campus in Round Rock. Having a site that serves as a satellite campus for three different colleges is a clever idea, but that's beside the point. I parked by a pond and sauntered over to a water pump built by the family … Continue reading This Looks Like A Job For… →

Yesterday, I went for my daily cache, a fairly new one near a factory, a so-called Gigafactory for electric vehicle components. Ground zero was along the side of the road leading into a local toll road. I am philosophically opposed to toll roads, but I tend to keep my resistance to them local. When I'm … Continue reading Not The Giga You Think It Is →

So, remember a couple of days ago when I said I would go to that other cemetery for that new cache?  Well, that didn’t happen as stated.  That night, a new cache dropped about a mile from home.  I was already in my pajamas and slippers, so I had no intention of going out to … Continue reading Liar, Liar, Pants, FTF →

Cemetery caches are ubiquitous. I’m guessing 95 percent of cachers have found at least one. That’s not a number methodically ascertained by statistical sampling, so (as the kids say) don’t @ me, bro. My point here (and I do have one) is that it’s unsurprising that I’d go for a newly published cemetery cache. If … Continue reading Hiding With The Dead →

The weekend put me back in scenic L-Town, visiting the girls. Being in scenic L-Town meant we got on the road pretty much as soon as I got there. First, we popped over to Harrison County, where all we needed was a Non-Traditional. That was easy enough. Since I'm a bit of a pack rat, … Continue reading Behind The Pine Curtain →

... something beginning with m. Muggles! All the muggles!I went to a nearby shopping center on the way home from work for my cache of the day, which turned out to be a bison hidden on an interesting lamppost of a patio. Once I parked near ground zero, I noticed two alarming things: (a) a … Continue reading I Spy With My Little Eye… →

A few days ago, a friend of mine (one of the Texas Six, if you must know) told me to check out the map west of Floresville.  Lo and behold, there were freshly dropped Mystery Caches and Letterbox Hybrids galore!  Someone else was kind enough to do the math and found over 550 challenges and … Continue reading Preparation For A Texas Challenge →

I do not usually worry about FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out). I’m often more than happy to stay in my own hobbit hole, which is one of the many reasons caching is good for me. But it does crop up from time to time. I have had chances to do amazing things in my life that … Continue reading FOMO →

I know this is going to blow your minds, but yesterday after work, I went and got a cache! It was a fake but impressive 3D-printed rock hidden under the overhang of a larger rock. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy (as they say in the parlance of our times). Except it wasn't entirely. I felt a … Continue reading Not Quite Sousa, But A Little Too Close →

When this entry is published, assuming that I find a cache at some point today, it will be Day 2,314 of my caching streak, according to geocaching.com stats. Project-GC, while registering it under my profile, doesn't register it under the checker because I guess I got a bunch of Adventure Labs on Day 607 (it … Continue reading Acting With Intention? →