It will probably come as no surprise to you that I have been thinking about states' county challenges lately (at least not if you read the thing). Now, it's possible that I am just generically drawn to any challenge involving acquiring counties, but those do seem to be the pinnacle. A final proof that you … Continue reading A Stately Diversion →

Saturday, I took another drive out to Lampasas. A bunch of other cachers decided to go out and grab some of the more than a hundred caches we've placed out there. I, on the other hand, didn't go out until later in the day. While caching was, as always, the primary goal, our secondary aim … Continue reading A Long Drive, A Short Drive →

After an evening catching up with a friend, it was easy enough to get a Mystery not far from our meeting spot. I first pulled up to a mural on the side of a surf shop featuring a fish with a highly improbable mutation, noted the nature of the mutation, and then used the corrected … Continue reading You Win This Time, Muggle! →

So, remember how I did an interview with Groundspeak a few years ago and a follow-up interview last year? Well, guess what? I did a third interview for them, and it published today! Talk about epic timing! If you ever wanted to know more about me and some of the choices I make while caching, here's another window into … Continue reading Here It Is 10: Still Another Redux →

Five years.Five years ...Even as I write the words and look back through the Archives, I can't believe it. I've been writing this for five years. The only reason I am not overcome by the enormity of it is because I felt the same when I hit the one-, two-, three-, and four-year marks. Somehow, … Continue reading A Fifth Year Gone By →

The weekend saw the arrival of International Geocaching Day. In the back of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, there's a cemetery (there always is one) that I had visited once before for a cache. On Saturday morning, I parked under the desperately welcome shade of a tree, walked to a tree stump in the back corner of … Continue reading International Geocaching Day →

I want to make a calculus joke, but will limit myself to a more serious subject. I have a friend who I used to go caching with. Not long after I started caching, I mentioned it to her, and she remembered that she and her ex-husband found a few and how she liked it. We … Continue reading Divergence →

All I was missing to finish Wheel of Challenges was an EarthCache and a Mystery. Mystery caches are all over the city. Annoyingly so, actually. Austin has a very persistent crop of puzzle solvers and (more importantly) puzzle makers, meaning that there's a plethora of Mysteries out there of various difficulties. This is also a … Continue reading Simple Enough →

So, I recently had a chat with some friends regarding the most current incarnation of the Wheel of Challenges, Iconic Cacher. We all have a couple of the same complications: there haven't been a ton of Events around here lately, and some of us have claimed all of some of the cache types in the … Continue reading The Lengths I Will Go To →

A cache has been sitting on my map for years, one of the oldest mystery caches in the area. I had ventured toward it a couple of times in the past, only to realize that the closest way was not viable because of backyard fences. Still, it sat there on my map, taunting me. Yesterday, … Continue reading Yesterday, I Sucked →