An early start for us today as it was a Geocaching Day. It was a chance to catch up with Sissy – a cacher originally from California that I had teamed up with in 2012 to do the ET Highway Power Trail. Since then, Jack and her have moved down to Austin to retire.

 

Our task today was to do a Geotour at the town of Kyle about 25 miles south of Austin. It involved finding 25 caches that had been placed at places of interest to the town. At the end of the finds which had a code in each, you returned to the Chamber of Commerce to receive a free Geocoin for your troubles. It is put together to bring people into their town and hopefully spend some money as well.

 

As Rachael had more study and assignments to do, Jenny decided to spend the day with us. She came prepared with a book and a pillow.

 

Along the day we met up with Jeff – a cacher from San Antonio. He is a whiz with 3D printing and I had won a cache container from him in a podcast contest some 12 months ago. He had been working on different containers over that time and it became opportune for me to be in town to collect it. He had 3 for me to choose from – a model of the USS Enterprise, a Pokeball and a Crypt-ex. I chose the Crypt-ex. It was amazing in the detail and it was a working one as well.

Jeff and another cacher Kevin were headed off to do a nearby power trail and we continued on the Geotour. We had completed it earlier than expected which was good as there was an event I had organised at Round Rock later this evening and Austin traffic is almost as bad as Los Angeles.

 

Rachael and Jess had finished their classes around 5:45, so we were on the way to Round Rock. Austin traffic lived up to its reputation and it took us 55 minutes to travel the 20 miles on a freeway.

 

There was a good turnout of old and new Austin geocaching friends and a good meal at Fuddruckers.

 

The journey back to Austin was a lot quicker with little traffic on the road.

 

The end to a big day.