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 →

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 →