Quite a courthouse, wouldn’t you agree?  The illumination on the white stone made it visible from the edge of town at night.  I wondered how long it would take to get to it as I drove in because its weird brightness made it hard for me to gauge its distance.  With the possible exception of … Continue reading 683. Marion, Marion County (KS086) →

It was lovely to finally be back on the road again. The trip up was pretty uneventful. I’ve mentioned how I have made a sort of game of trying to get the cheapest gas in an area. It’s taken on slightly different importance after the debacle of Arizona. I stopped at a relatively sketchy gas … Continue reading 682. Newton, Harvey County (KS085) →

So, you may be wondering what Nebraska has to do with anything. Well, I’ll tell you ... but it’ll have to be when I get back! When this publishes, I will still be heading back home. I might not be in any condition to write something for Tuesday, but I’ll definitely have a post for … Continue reading …pation! →

It's coming.In about ten hours, I get back on the road. I can't wait for it to get here. It's only been three months, but that feels like a lifetime. Even that ten hours will feel like forever even though it's only one (work) day out of so many like it. Heck, it's just like … Continue reading I See You Shiver With Antici… →

While normally I am just the kind of BLANK-hole who would casually throw around Latin and expect others to understand it, I have been informed by several parties (my children, my proofreader/copyeditor, my former-Latin-teacher friend) that most people don't. The title means "In Shadow Obscured," and in this case, I chose it both for its … Continue reading In Caligine Abditus →

A couple of days ago, I ran into the most interesting piece of motivation I've had in a while. So last week, I was noting that I didn't feel like going out to find a cache, so I just claimed a Challenge. Austin can be considered flush with Challenges so I decided to go grab … Continue reading And Yet, I Am Up For The Challenge →

Yesterday, I claimed a challenge. That is hardly uncommon, and my streak wouldn't exist without them. I always claim a State County Challenge on the day after I return home from that trip. I often claim challenges on days where the weather is terrible, or I'm ill, or whatever reason crops up. Heck, during the … Continue reading Some Days It’s Challenging →

Just what the title says... This was a nice little cache, worthy of note but stuck in a weird place, along a walking trail with no parking to speak of. The closest parking was a school, and, because of the time of day, that was not a wise place to do so. I ended up … Continue reading Another Day, Another Cache →

I hadn't intended to spend a weekend with the dead, but it happened. My Saturday plan was to go work on some Geoart that I had started but never finished, but I ended up oversleeping. Instead of getting up around dawn and working the back roads, I ended up rolling out of bed closer to … Continue reading Noticing Stones →

There is a concept in software that an application can be "free as in beer," meaning something is given with no cost, or "free as in speech," meaning users are at liberty to use, alter, and dispose of it as they see fit. For the most part, I think of geocaching in a similar way. … Continue reading Free As In Speech →