My last few caches have not been the most exciting or distinctive. Actually, they've been downright mundane because I've not been trying too hard. Even though the summer heat has begun to abate, I've still not been in the mood to search for anything difficult or far out. Those both just mean more time in … Continue reading The Emotions Fly →

I was talking to someone yesterday who said something that’s been kicking around the back of my head for a long time: Travis County has a lot of caches (over 2,500, if you must know), but not enough of them are truly quality caches. It may be a little hyperbolic to say that there’s a … Continue reading Dereliction Of Duty →

So the girls and I went for a drive. I had to get them back to their mother after a weekend of shenanigans. At the same time, I also realized that I didn't have a cache for the day. But that's one of the good things about grabbing a cache on the road. We were … Continue reading A Small Weekend →

I feel it is time to offer you all one of my greatest, most closely guarded secrets. I didn't start writing all this so that I could document every county in the United States. I started writing this so that I could make terrible, pun-like jokes to a captive audience! So, assuming nothing goes wrong, … Continue reading Five Thousand, Two Hundred And Eighty Feet of Rock →

The hardest part about an upcoming trip is that it never seems to arrive fast enough. In two weeks, I and five of my caching buddies will be boarding a plane and making our way north. Five of us are finishers of the Texas County Challenge. For one of them, this trip will result in … Continue reading So Close, And Yet… →

Many, many moons ago, the House of PodCacher suggested the idea of holding flash mobs of geocachers. So in 2007, the first World-Wide Flash Mob (WWFM) was born, encompassing twenty events in two countries. People seemed to think it was a good idea because it kept happening, at first every six months, and eventually yearly. … Continue reading Wet For The Wet God! Splash For The Splash Throne! →

Yesterday, I went to get my cache of the day in the parking lot of a nearby park. After a quick search, I spotted it in a tree, farther out of my reach than its T2 would have suggested. It was, of course, little challenge for me. I pulled the pole out of my trunk … Continue reading Phoning It In →

Bear with me, folks.  This one is going to be a bit more of a wander than usual. I think that anyone who has gone beyond a certain number of caches or, especially, Fizzy Loops has run into a certain issue: somewhere along the way, a CO decided to change the Difficulty or Terrain on … Continue reading Two And Two Together →

Yesterday, I took a drive out to McKinney Falls to handle some business for the rapidly upcoming Texas Roundup. I had to re-scout some locations for things I have planned, but I got lucky. One thing I needed to do was talk to the coordinator for the park, but I hadn't been able to for … Continue reading Overlapping Countdowns →

Yesterday was a day like any other from a caching perspective. I got my daily cache from an older series that teaches basic caching terminology such as GPS, Cache Owner, Icon, and Reviewer. Mine was STF (Second To Find, for those of you living under a caching rock for the last umpteen years). I pulled … Continue reading It Taunts Me →