My daughters like to think they look hard-core and frightening. I love them very much, but they do not. Not to me, anyway...A couple of days ago, a couple of caches appeared near downtown Austin. One of them was close to a major thoroughfare, the other deeper in East Austin, a more economically depressed but … Continue reading First To Find, Fool! →

Oh, happy day! Callooh! Callay! Or some kind of crap like that! Last night, the girls and I went to an Event hosted by friend of the blog Buckandi. After seventeen years, he has hit ten thousand caches! About twenty-five of us (some alone, others with spouses) gathered to have dinner and drinks and to … Continue reading Congratulations Are In Order →

What did I do this weekend? From a caching perspective, that is. It was filled, though not brimming. Saturday, I took the girls to the Austin Zoo, where we attended a tiger's birthday. One of them suggested placing an Adventure Lab series there, which is not a terrible idea. I'm going to put some brain … Continue reading Tiny Trips →

Oh, mother of crapsticks, it's gotten hot around here! I was enjoying the cool spring, but after some storming on the solstice, summer has begun in true and unquestionable form! Yesterday, I asked the girls if they wanted to come out and grab a cache with me. They both understandably passed on leaving the air-conditioned … Continue reading Do I Have To Brave The Sun? →

I had Juneteenth off. I wanted to do something with the girls. My older daughter, the cacher, mentioned that, since she was here with me and I cache every day, there was no reason that she couldn't make it to the Out and About Medium souvenir. I told her about the Solstice one that required … Continue reading Country Mouse, City Mouse →

The girls are visiting for a couple of weeks from L-Town. What better way to kick their visit off than some arts and crafts? I dragged them out to a Maker Magic Event over the weekend to make some caches and to see some people (and to conduct some TXGA business, but that's not important … Continue reading The Means Of Production →

Last year at this time, I had completed six states. This year, I have completed one more state and added two more to my running tally, for a total of twenty-three states visited, of which seven are completed. A couple of days ago was my fifth geoversary. It doesn't feel like five years, and yet … Continue reading There’s No Narrative To Interrupt This Time… →

As I walked up the park path, I thought a lot about Austin's history, specifically the Cedar Choppers who once roamed the outskirts of the city. Of course, in this day and age, the places they roamed are well within the city limits, and I knew that the trees I walked by were once part … Continue reading All Wet →

The Scorpion Expeditionary Force (SEF) and I had long been preparing for this past weekend. Its de facto leader had long ago told us that he, his wife, and another cacher had been working on a giant duck-themed Geoart to replace the many different and recently archived ones spread out over Williamson and Milam Counties. … Continue reading More Than I Expected →

Nostalgia pulls at me. Yesterday, I claimed my daily cache at the foot of a mural. In this case, the mural was both familiar and unfamiliar in equal measure. The mural lives on a wall of a library I have visited since my childhood. I still remember when it was bare and clean, only bearing … Continue reading They All Pull At Me →