Last week, Razorbackgirl reached out to me, suggesting a trip down to Houston. We both have good reasons to hit the area. I'm still working on I've Been Everywhere, and a couple of the towns I need are part of the greater Houston metroplex, and she's closing in on fifteen thousand finds before a planned … Continue reading The Texas Three Ride Again! →

I have been finding local caches for years. At this point, I have found pretty much all the non-Mysteries around greater Austin that are not less than a year old or especially difficult. (Cliff Cache, I’ll get you one day when I possess a longer ladder and a boat.)  Until recently, one Traditional placed in … Continue reading Little Victories →

I don't know if you knew this or not, but there was a big celestial event (small "e") a couple of days ago. Maybe you heard about it? I had been anticipating and preparing for it since before I even started geocaching. In 2017, some friends and I went up to Kansas City to see … Continue reading The Day Of Black Sun →

Friday morning, I decided to go in to work late so I could hit an Event in downtown Austin. It's not something I normally do, but a) I was already making it a long weekend because of the eclipse, so nobody really cared much about Friday and b) I wasn't going to leave a Lackey … Continue reading The Unsung →

A new, young cacher has recently shown up in Austin. I suspected this from his handle, but it was confirmed when I met him at one of his caches. To be honest, I have multiple feelings about his caches thus far. The first one was quite good, a small in a tree growing in the … Continue reading The New Arrivals →

So, I’m pretty blasé and jaded when it comes to caches.  As a previously mentioned consequence, I am not exactly liberal with my disbursement of favorite points.  When I discuss them, I often use the phrase “stingily hoarded,” and having almost seven hundred favorites remaining, I feel that is an accurate assessment.  Imagine my surprise … Continue reading Fine! It’s Cute, OK? →

The girls were visiting Austin over the weekend, so I saved a special cache for a Saturday morning jaunt. We popped over to Pease Park, one of the city’s downtown parks, to take in a new art exhibit, a recently installed troll sculpture made by artist and activist Thomas Dambo. My blasé daughters found it … Continue reading A New Virtual Bearing Fruit →

Some days, I have deep and interesting insights into the philosophy and reality of geocaching. This is not one of those days. Some days, life just happens, and I grab a cache in between the ebbs and flows of existence. Maybe I'm driving home from work or running an errand. Maybe I'm grabbing dinner or … Continue reading Just Hanging Around →

I’m not normally one to cache-shame, but I feel like I should take a moment to point out an example of what not to do (in my humble opinion).  I popped over to a newly published cache a few days ago, hoping to be First to Find.  I probably only made it because I, unlike … Continue reading Understanding The Assignment →

Once again, I and some of my caching friends were rolling around the back roads of Texas (specifically Bosque, Hamilton, and Erath Counties), finding caches on a power trail, some of which I had done several years back. However, we were out with a different goal in mind. The COs had decided earlier this year … Continue reading A CITO By Any Other Name →