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Geocaching While Black
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Nope... Nope... Nope...

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Nope… Nope… Nope…
Alright, I will cede that Treasures are making me go after caches and D/Ts that I might not normally go after. Normally, I just grab a nearby or easy to get to cache and then go on with my day. But…
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November 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Continuing Education

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Continuing Education
For a very long time, I’ve had a little problem.  When caches drop, I would only be informed if they were the basic physical ones (Traditional, Mystery, Letterbox, etc.) but never the other types (…
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November 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Not To The Swiftest

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Not To The Swiftest
The Girls came down from L-Town for the weekend, so Saturday we went to get a cache. We ended up grabbing one in East Austin. From a caching perspective, that is specifically where I was talking ab…
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November 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Worst Among Equals

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Worst Among Equals
I went to a local Community Celebration yesterday. I expect that a good handful are going to be hosted in the next six weeks or so as time is running out to host them. I wonder if maybe HQ would co…
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November 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Shallow Thinking

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Shallow Thinking
The Girls are coming down this weekend and I wish there was a GIFF event I could take them to. While there is one over the weekend down in New Braunfels, it’s going to be too late in the week…
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November 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Size Matters

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Size Matters
Saturday I was coming home from running an errand when I remembered that I needed to find a cache. Since I was in a part of town that I don’t usually find myself in often, I thought there sho…
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November 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Everyone's Gone To The Movies

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Everyone’s Gone To The Movies
The time is upon us again! Last night, I attended a GIFF 2025 Event, because of course I did! A little over a dozen of us gathered at an event center in Pflugerville to use their meeting room with …
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November 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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I Stand By My Words

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I Stand By My Words
The most interesting thing to happen to me lately cache-wise is that I took a muggle friend with me to find a cache for the first time and, as has always happened in the past, I ended up DNFing it.…
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November 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Putting In Some Work

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Putting In Some Work
Saturday was an active day. In anticipation of Texas Challenge, we’ve been hiding new caches for our expected visitors. We took an opportunity to make some more … challenging hides. For…
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November 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Paging Doctors Dunning And Kruger

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Paging Doctors Dunning And Kruger
Twice in the last couple of weeks, I’ve had newer cachers reach out to me to inquire about the state of caches of mine that they couldn’t find. In both cases, they questioned whether or…
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October 31, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Well, That Was Weird

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Well, That Was Weird
I had to run up to Georgetown, so I decided to go ahead and grab a cache in the area. My first attempt was at a park not far from the center of town. I had been there a couple of times before, but …
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October 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Caching Orthodoxy

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Caching Orthodoxy
There was a bit of a caching to-do in and around Center over the weekend, but I had to miss out on the shenanigans because I went up to L-Town to see the Girls on Saturday. It rained on the way up …
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October 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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It's Been A Minute

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It’s Been A Minute
Yesterday I was eating an early dinner and looking at the map for a daily cache. I lucked out and found an FTF five minutes from where I was eating. I was immediately suspicious when I saw it had b…
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October 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Stuff I Get No Longer

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Stuff I Get No Longer
Yesterday I went to get my daily cache (shock, right!), an LPC, nothing special. I lifted the skirt and found a cap-n-cap along with a cute miniature bottle of fake champagne, a funny piece of swag…
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October 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Lone Star Roundup 2025

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Lone Star Roundup 2025
The TXGA puts on two events every year. The more well known one is, of course, the venerable Mega-Event Texas Challenge (the 24th Challenge will be in Taylor TX on March 14th 2026 #blatantplug). Th…
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October 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Keep On Going

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Keep On Going
Yesterday, I found a cache in a location I had been before. Many, many moons ago, I found a cache near downtown at an office for a disability advocacy group. I’m sure that if I looked back th…
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October 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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The Healing Ecosystem

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The Healing Ecosystem
Yesterday I had to go run an errand after work.  I found out after I got there that I didn’t need to go, so I headed home because, well, I like home sometimes.  But I was already out on the other s…
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October 15, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Our Comedy And Errors

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Our Comedy And Errors
The Girls and I mounted up in the car early-ish and began driving north and then west. We had a mind to get at least five new counties for their (though actually just the older daughter; the younge…
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October 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Some Loss, Some Drudgery, Some Expectation

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Some Loss, Some Drudgery, Some Expectation
Yesterday, a new cache dropped five minutes away from where I work. When I got off, I shot right over and began a search in earnest. Unfortunately, I didn’t find it. Not only is it difficult …
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October 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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I Do Not Countenance Erasure

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I Do Not Countenance Erasure
I’m not a fan of Depeche Mode either, but that’s a completely different issue altogether.When I went up to Temple a few days ago, I found myself accidentally rolling up to a cache that …
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October 8, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Entropy Sounds Ominous

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Entropy Sounds Ominous
True to my word, Saturday I ran up to Temple to go grab a few caches. I had originally intended to get up early and make a day of it, but early mornings are not always my jams at the best of times,…
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October 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Just When You Least Expect It

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Just When You Least Expect It
Yesterday, I went for my daily cache and one of the little gnomish freaks snuck up on me! Grrr!!! You have to remain ever vigilant lest they ruin you and all you love! Besides, I can only shake my …
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October 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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The Postal Service

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The Postal Service
No, I’m not talking about the band. I’m talking about International Postcard Day! And, of course, a dozen of us celebrated it down here with an Event! To be entirely honest, I’m n…
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October 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Something I Did

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Something I Did
So I was in L-Town visiting the Girls. I remembered from before that one of my Jasmer holes was in nearby Tyler and I decided to drag them out to go grab it. That didn’t happen, though. It&#8…
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September 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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All The Things I Haven't Done

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All The Things I Haven’t Done
Yesterday, I went out and got another challenge because, as much as I dislike gnomes, I dislike unfinished spaces in digital collections more, probably because my brain is cracked in just a certain…
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September 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM