Saturday morning began early. The girls and I loaded into the car, aiming for old counties and new caches. The plan was to visit six counties and get a Traditional and a Non-Traditional in each one. I had done minimal planning for it but downloaded maps with caches the night before. I'd kind of done … Continue reading Key Performance Indicators →

Yesterday, I got a call from a friend with a problem. He was at a state park and accidentally dropped his car keys in the river. After having gone down a list of obvious but unsuccessful remedies, he wanted to know if I might be able to get his spare key from home and bring … Continue reading Defective Bingo →

So, remember how I did an interview with Groundspeak several years ago, a follow-up interview a couple of years ago, and a third interview for them last year? Well, my fourth interview dropped yesterday! Since it coincided with the beginning of Cosmic Quest, we chatted a bit about space and aliens, along with what I've been doing for the … Continue reading Here It Is 14: A Redux By Any Other Name →

This weekend, I didn't go on a grand adventure. I didn't go to some far-off county or attempt some incredibly interesting cache. I didn't do anything epic or come back with some crazy story. This weekend, I rested. I did as little as possible. Now, you might think that seems like a pointless thing to … Continue reading Self-Care →

A couple of days ago, I was reading something in the Geocaching subreddit about a cacher who saw a signature on a cache log from a muggle who had no earthly idea what they had found. Of course, there was a little commentary about muggles, but I was reminded of something that happened to me … Continue reading Core Memory Unlocked →

Am I losing my mind? I have three raisons d’etre regarding this site: documenting visits to counties (and county equivalents), writing about my experiences as I cache, and photographing some of the caches I visit for reader edification. I like to think I’ve done a good job of the first and second of those; but … Continue reading More Than Just A Thousand Words →

Yesterday morning, I took a drive out to Bell County. It was my chance to put a nail in an old caching coffin I'd been carrying around for longer than I ever thought I would. Over five years ago, I signed a challenge. It was simple enough: find a hundred caches in each month of … Continue reading An Old Checkbox →

I’m sure everyone got their magical email from HQ telling them about their caching statistics for the year’s top half. Oddly enough, it hipped me to something I hadn’t thought of previously. I’m a bit of a numbers person, so I’m already into my statistics thanks to Project-GC, but I didn’t even know how many … Continue reading Both Halves Of 2024 →

The girls and I pulled up to the host hotel soon after CacheFest began. Our primary destination was the main hall, teeming with vendors and cachers. After finding a spot to wolf down our breakfasts, my younger muggle daughter guarded our spots while my older caching daughter and I went over to the log and … Continue reading CacheFest Oklahoma →

In the morning, we had an appointment. It was not in Samara, but it might have been just as dangerous. I have always felt that the Necropolis at Britannia Manor was the best cache I have ever found. But I had long been hearing rumblings of a cache outside Oklahoma City that could be a … Continue reading The Day Before… →