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? →

Assuming you haven't been living under a rock for the last couple of months, you know that International EarthCache Day was yesterday. Saturday, my daughter and I were the recipients of the new souvenir. With muggle daughter in tow, we went out to Dripping Springs for brunch with friends and then to a local park … Continue reading Old Skill, New Skill →

I was reading a caching forum yesterday where someone asked about hiding a cache that would make them money. Somehow, a cacher would have to pay to find the cache, possibly by mechanical means or perhaps a tip jar. The resounding consensus in the comments was "No." Most people fell back to the guidelines prohibiting … Continue reading The Yankee Dollar →

We're going to suck at geocaching!Yesterday, I ran out to Elgin to find my daily cache. I had several options to choose from, but I decided to get one in the back of a cemetery I had visited before (there always is one, after all). There's a cache at the front gate, but I hadn't … Continue reading Get In, Loser! →