So, I needed to get a cache. I also wanted to work on filling that virtual shelf. So I took a drive down to South Austin. There's a greenbelt there which would help me to pick a few more of the Planet Treasures. There has been a series there for a few years, dedicated to … Continue reading Maybe Not Quite So Hard →

The weekend consisted of a couple of peaks, all attained without travel, based around gatherings of people. That’s a strange thing for me: Success usually comes from some kind of planning and execution, but it seems to have fallen into my lap, thanks to being social and crap. Friday, I held my biannual solstice Event. … Continue reading So Much Peopling →

I am not collecting Treasures intentionally. I am, however, a collector and completionist by nature. Texas has 254 counties, and I had to cache in them all. The United States has 3,144 counties (and county equivalents), and I'm working on them as well. I have a tiny itch in the back of my skull that … Continue reading Harder Than It Looks →

As I mentioned previously, this past weekend was my seventh geoversary. I was up in Longview on that day, so I decided to find a special cache to cap off my seventh. I warmed up Cachly and set it to filter out anything with less than fifty favorites. That left four caches within a twenty-mile … Continue reading Gravity →

Saturday was my seventh geoversary. Today is day 2,557 in a row of finding caches—seven years and two leap days. Normally, these would be things to celebrate and laud. But, for all their significance, they just point out a glaring and painful reality. I went to precisely zero new counties this year. In my defense, … Continue reading Narrative Disappointment →

I sort of took my own advice yesterday. When I got off work, instead of heading for one of the areas close to work or home, I decided to go a little closer to downtown. I found a simple cache in a nicer neighborhood that I've been to before. The cache had been placed by … Continue reading Do The Dumb Things I’ve Gotta Do →

As my workday came to a close, I pulled out my phone and looked for a cache. It was hot and muggy as all get out, so I didn't want something that was going to have me searching forever under the Texas sun. Low-hanging fruit has been fairly scarce for me lately. I've found so … Continue reading Where Your Eyes Don’t Go →

Saturday morning began in an atypical way. There is a recurring monthly Event in Georgetown that's been going on longer than I've been caching (of course, with a hiatus during the “Time of Cholera"). In all my years of caching, I've attended the Event only once because it traditionally happened at 7:30 a.m. Why on … Continue reading A Data-Driven Approach →

Yesterday, I chose a cache for a strange reason. I was looking for something easy to grab on a hot day after a long, tiring day at work, and I noticed an easy one that I didn't remember seeing before. It was only about a week or two old. When I looked at the two … Continue reading The Passing Of Knowledge →

I found my daily cache behind an orthodontia clinic. I was already a bit surly. My first attempt was a failure because I was trying to find a little green container in a tree in ninety-degree heat. This is not the season to deal with camouflaged micros in trees (and yes, it's gonna get worse, … Continue reading If You Walk Without Rhythm →