Geocaching While Black

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12 hours ago

Hello Again, Little Buddy! I’m not big into trackables, primarily because of a tragic loss a few years ago, but also because I run into fewer caches large enough to house them.  Consequently, I’d been rolling aro…

Hello Again, Little Buddy!

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Geocaching While Black

@atreides78723.bsky.social

2 days ago

Getting Pickled I’ve been to a number of Events. Being in a cache- and cacher-rich environment like Travis/Williamson Counties, they’re common enough (though admittedly nowhere near as common as they a…

Getting Pickled

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Geocaching While Black

@atreides78723.bsky.social

4 days ago

Making Magic! Or some kind of crap like that!Saturday was normal, almost mundane. I went out and got a cache, more specifically a YARN (Yet Another Road to Nowhere). From reading the logs, I thought it was going…

Making Magic!

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Geocaching While Black

@atreides78723.bsky.social

1 week ago

Easy Hide, Easy What?

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Geocaching While Black

@atreides78723.bsky.social

1 week ago

Answering Questions I Forgot I Had Last year, I attended a CITO (as part of TXGA’s CITO Across Texas) in a west Austin park I had never been to before.  At the entrance to its trailhead there was a large stone structure, obvio…

Answering Questions I Forgot I Had

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Geocaching While Black

@atreides78723.bsky.social

1 week ago

Extra Versus Ephemeral Saturday, the Girls and I went out to a thing. When we left to make our way back home, I remembered that I hadn’t gotten a cache yet so I dragged them along. We were in Central Austin just so…

Extra Versus Ephemeral

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Geocaching While Black

@atreides78723.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

A List To Remember (EarthCache Edition) A couple of weeks ago, after talking about arguably the most annoying challenge in Christendom, I decided to go ahead and log the Earthcache Challenge.  A few days later, the CO reached out to me a…

A List To Remember (EarthCache Edition)

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Geocaching While Black

@atreides78723.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

The Calling Of My Heart I have often taken the opportunity of April Fool’s Day to make some kind of clever jape, usually of a geocaching variety.  I have, however, come to the realization that I don’t hav…

The Calling Of My Heart

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Geocaching While Black

@atreides78723.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

Just One More Cache Left After months of trying, I finally got around to something I’ve been wanting to do for some time. I was down a daughter since my younger was part of a play competition outside of Dallas, so my…

Just One More Cache Left

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Geocaching While Black

@atreides78723.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

Tools During Texas Challenge, I was asked about a few of the things we did and, more specifically, how we did them.  I answered to the best of my ability, of course.  Some of them were just brawn, experi…

Tools

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Geocaching While Black

@atreides78723.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

When Checkers Lie (EarthCache Edition) I was going back over some of my old, uncompleted challenges yesterday.  Some of them remain uncompleted because they’re hard (for me…  A hundred finds in each of ten states?  I don&#82…

When Checkers Lie (EarthCache Edition)

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Geocaching While Black

@atreides78723.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

Coagulated It took me a week, but I am finally upright, cogent, and not generally worn the BLANK out. A lot of people did a lot of hard work (I just stood around and looked pretty) but I still did about thirt…

Coagulated

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Geocaching While Black

@atreides78723.bsky.social

4 weeks ago

And Now, For The Last… Traditionally, Challenge ends with two Events on the final day: a CITO to thank the community for putting up with us for a week, and our final announcement of winners and the location of the next y…

And Now, For The Last...

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Geocaching While Black

@atreides78723.bsky.social

4 weeks ago

The 13th Annual TCC Finishers Reunion We gathered at Granger’s Cotton Country Club, resplendent in our blue shirts. After a long day of competing against each other individually and in teams, it was time to honor (in my humble op…

The 13th Annual TCC Finishers Reunion

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Geocaching While Black

@atreides78723.bsky.social

4 weeks ago

I Am A Man Of My Word! I have acquired video! Enjoy the pie-eating contest!

I Am A Man Of My Word!

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Geocaching While Black

@atreides78723.bsky.social

4 weeks ago

The 24th Annual Texas Challenge and Geocaching Festival I arrived at the Expo Center early, earlier than I ever had before. A few volunteers and vendors also began morning setup as well. There was just enough time to make some preparations for what was …

The 24th Annual Texas Challenge and Geocaching Festival

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@atreides78723.bsky.social

1 month ago

The Day Before… From the moment this began to kick off, I knew it was going to be a different experience for me than any other Mega has ever been. I’ve attended a bunch, probably working in half of them in o…

The Day Before...

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Geocaching While Black

@atreides78723.bsky.social

1 month ago

A Puddle Of Goo It’s been a heck of a weekend. And not entirely in a fun way for me. A lot of other people liked it, which was the point. But it also means that I’m worn out and not in a head or body s…

A Puddle Of Goo

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Geocaching While Black

@atreides78723.bsky.social

1 month ago

The Unbelievers So when you’re planning a Mega-Event, you’ve got a lot of moving parts to deal with: the venue, attendee registrations and swag, vendors, and any number of details that may turn out to be a pain in…

The Unbelievers

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@atreides78723.bsky.social

1 month ago

The Wire There are so many details and moving bits. We’re at a point where, regardless of what we may or may not have done, something is going to happen and a lot of people are going to be there to se…

The Wire

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Geocaching While Black

@atreides78723.bsky.social

1 month ago

The Council Of Elrond Normally, going out to get a cache with the Girls is the biggest and most interesting thing to come from any weekend, but not this time. Yesterday was the last meeting of the team behind the upcomi…

The Council Of Elrond

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Geocaching While Black

@atreides78723.bsky.social

1 month ago

Novel Navigation Methods A couple of days ago, I had to meet with another caching friend for a thing. For a little while, we went back and forth about where to meet up. Finally, I just decided to take the bull by the horns…

Novel Navigation Methods

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Geocaching While Black

@atreides78723.bsky.social

1 month ago

Taking Ownership A few days ago, about 350 to 400 new mysteries dropped near my area. Most of them were part of a couple of new Geoarts placed conveniently near the upcoming Texas Challenge. The rest were part of a…

Taking Ownership

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Geocaching While Black

@atreides78723.bsky.social

1 month ago

Ghosts Of The Piney Woods I went out to L-Town over the weekend to see the Girls. The younger daughter had to go to an extracurricular thing out of town so her sister and I took her to school to catch the appropriate school…

Ghosts Of The Piney Woods

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Geocaching While Black

@atreides78723.bsky.social

1 month ago

I Did Not Expect The Unexpected I took the day off to visit Taylor yesterday in anticipation of the big show in a couple of weeks. There’s always last minute things and stuff involved in a venture of that nature. But before…

I Did Not Expect The Unexpected

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Geocaching While Black

@atreides78723.bsky.social

1 month ago

Yesterday’s Failures Six or seven years ago, I looked at one of the first Mysteries that I ever had the guts to face. I had found many (though not all) of the puzzles in them intimidating, so it felt like a big step fo…

Yesterday's Failures

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Geocaching While Black

@atreides78723.bsky.social

1 month ago

Near And Far Friday, I decided to take on another cache that was close to home and cluttering up my map. One had been in my neighborhood for about six months and I just hadn’t done anything about it. Well…

Near And Far

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@atreides78723.bsky.social

1 month ago

If At First You Don’t Succeed… Yesterday I needed a quick one. I had stuff to do and couldn’t spend a lot of time going to the hinterlands for a cache or heading to the other side of town for one of the newer ones that have rece…

If At First You Don't Succeed...

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@atreides78723.bsky.social

1 month ago

Slouching Toward Taylor So we’re a month out from Texas Challenge in Taylor TX. As we get closer, I am running into tons of little decisions and actions that comes from being near the finish line of an undertaking l…

Slouching Toward Taylor

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@atreides78723.bsky.social

2 months ago

Urban Renewal A few new features have opened up recently on the walking trails in Austin that run along Town (or Ladybird, for the newbies) Lake. As you can imagine, they weren’t left alone for very long f…

Urban Renewal

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