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Slouching Toward Taylor

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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…
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February 18, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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Urban Renewal

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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…
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February 16, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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What I Missed

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What I Missed
Yesterday, after I got off work, I went out for my cache of the day. I had evening plans and some errands to run so I had a short window of time in which to find it. One of my errands took me to a …
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February 13, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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The Wrong Kind Of Competition

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The Wrong Kind Of Competition
On any other day, I think I would spend some time talking crap about gnomes (one did show me his backside yesterday), but something else has been bubbling around in my head for a while. When I firs…
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February 11, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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Hike! Hike! Hike!

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Hike! Hike! Hike!
I understand that a lot of people spent yesterday evening observing a Superb Owl. I, on the other hand, was taken by a different kind of bird. I needed my cache for the day so I decided to do somet…
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February 9, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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Rabbit-Sized Ruminations

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Rabbit-Sized Ruminations
I’ve had a couple of disappointments over the last few days. The first was a cache I went for that I found just fine and then dropped down a hole. It caught on something so it may be possible…
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February 6, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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Expanded Horizons

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Expanded Horizons
A couple of days ago, I had a really surreal experience finding a cache. I ended up going for one in the middle of Austin proper, in one of the wealthier neighborhoods just west of downtown. Neighb…
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February 4, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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Regional Variation

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Regional Variation
My cache yesterday was nothing special; a bison tube hidden in a hole in a rock, karst to be specific. It was in the parking lot of a church, which was a bit different since one of my standing rule…
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February 2, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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Little Earthquakes

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Little Earthquakes
So this is more pertaining to Texas, but it’s something that I find both fascinating and problematic, so I feel it’s not a bad idea to address it more generally. A couple of days ago, I…
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January 30, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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Optimistic Nihilism

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Optimistic Nihilism
Austin has mostly come out from its shell. The ice has cracked, the slush is receding. It’s safe enough to get back on the streets and cache again. The weather is projected to get up into mor…
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January 28, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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Take A Look! It's In A Book!

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Take A Look! It’s In A Book!
Friday morning I noticed a new cache had dropped (actually, several did, but this one was close enough for me to note). I set out during lunch to go get it. I didn’t immediately get it by loo…
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January 26, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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Impermanence

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Impermanence
A couple of days ago, I checked out my emails to look at the freshly dropped caches.  In among them, I saw a brand new EarthCache!  Man am I glad I figured out how to get notifications for those!  …
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January 23, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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My Trouble With Treasures

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My Trouble With Treasures
In a move completely unrelated to the theme of this entry, HQ has released a new set of Treasures along with souvenirs for completing collections and bulk acquisition in general. I am already two s…
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January 21, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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Fancy Plans And Pants To Match

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Fancy Plans And Pants To Match
It’s been a minute since I’ve been live writing. What have I been doing since I got back from Atlanta? Other than Christmas/Holiday stuff? Well, the big thing is continuing with plannin…
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January 19, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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More Reflection Than Lesson

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More Reflection Than Lesson
As always, I’ve continued caching since I got home from the road.  It gave me some time to reflect.  I ended my road trip through the Deep South in exactly the way I wanted to: neither bl…
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January 16, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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913. Woodville, Wilkinson County (MS23)

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913. Woodville, Wilkinson County (MS23)
I almost thought I was going to get out of this trip without making the invocation, but Future Arborists of America, attend!  The Wilkinson County Courthouse is surrounded by beautiful, aged t…
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January 14, 2026 at 1:09 PM
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912. Liberty, Amite County (MS22)

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912. Liberty, Amite County (MS22)
Another French looking courthouse!  Louisiana is leaking in again!  On the way in, at a friend’s request, I took a shot at a famous grave, that of comedian Jerry Clower.  Unfortunately, his grave w…
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January 13, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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911. Magnolia, Pike County (MS21)

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911. Magnolia, Pike County (MS21)
Another lovely little chonker of a courthouse, no?  And yet, they named the county after Zebulon Pike, the guy who couldn’t get to the top of a mountain?  What’s up with that?  In all fairness to P…
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January 12, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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910. Brookhaven, Lincoln County (MS20)

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910. Brookhaven, Lincoln County (MS20)
This one makes my eighth Lincoln County!  Look out Jeffersons and Washingtons!  They’re catching up! The centrality of the courthouse to the life of Brookhaven is beyond question considering that b…
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January 9, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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909. Meadville, Franklin County (MS19)

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909. Meadville, Franklin County (MS19)
Now that was a nice courthouse!  But I had to criticize the red brick annex in the back that didn’t quite match the rest of the building.  Alright, maybe “criticize” is too strong of a word, but me…
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January 8, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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908. Fayette, Jefferson County (MS18)

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908. Fayette, Jefferson County (MS18)
Another Jefferson County makes ten visited at this point!  That’s even more than the Washingtons!  I felt like a bit of a newbie while searching out the courthouse.  Mapping put me out in the …
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January 7, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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907. Port Gibson, Claiborne County (MS17)

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907. Port Gibson, Claiborne County (MS17)
Coming out of Vicksburg, the rain was going hard so I had to gingerly inch my way to Port Gibson.  Luckily, the deluge slacked off to drizzle by the time I hit town, which was good because I didn’t…
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January 6, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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906. Rolling Fork, Sharkey County (MS16)

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906. Rolling Fork, Sharkey County (MS16)
I hit the courthouse on the way to Mayersville and my eyes uncharacteristically widened to see its roof on the ground.  Something obviously happened there.  “Something” I later learned was an EF4 t…
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January 5, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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905. Mayersville, Issaquena County (MS15)

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905. Mayersville, Issaquena County (MS15)
Well, it’s a courthouse.  Or is it a high school gym?  It’s difficult to tell the difference between the two.  Mayersville is a small community so this is obviously adequate for their needs and I s…
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January 2, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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904. Belzoni, Humphreys County (MS14)

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904. Belzoni, Humphreys County (MS14)
The courthouse in Belzoni looked like it was Greek Revival, which was nicer than I had expected for what felt like the middle of nowhere.  I also was being especially uncritical at the moment.  I w…
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January 1, 2026 at 1:47 PM