Author: keely

  • Wilderness, Chicago Style

    There was a gathering early this week in the suburbs of Chicago of representatives from each of the North American sites of my company, and I and my boss, Iris, were of the two from our site mandated to go.  Neither of us really wanted to, didn’t want to miss time with our family or…

  • Bluebonnets and Washington-on-the-Brazos State Park

    My best friend and I were looking for a place to take the kids last Sunday where we could all enjoy the outdoors and also find some wildflowers off the beaten path to take the obligatory kids-in-bluebonnets pictures that it seems like everyone who calls themselves a Texan has to take at some point. I…

  • Country Roads and New Friends

    Sometimes I have read that all you need for geocaching is a sense of adventure.  I always found that kind of interesting because I thought everyone HAD one of those.  Turns out, not so much. A love of nature and appreciation of the outdoors is also not as common as I would have thought. That’s…

  • Ray Roberts State Park – Isle Du Bois Unit

    It was a wild wet weather weekend. Yet, there we were, tent camping in the midst of all that.  Because we’re nature freaks. No, really, it was because it was a weekend we could not miss, being the first Mega Event (a geocaching event drawing more than 500 particpants) in Texas since GeoWoodstock IV back…