Geocaching While Black
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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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2 days ago
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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…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/11/10/size-matters/
4 days ago
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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 …
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/11/07/everyones-gone-to-the-movies/
7 days ago
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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.…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/11/05/i-stand-by-my-words/
9 days ago
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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…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/11/03/putting-in-some-work/
11 days ago
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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…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/10/31/paging-doctors-dunning-and-kruger/
14 days ago
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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 …
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/10/29/well-that-was-weird/
16 days ago
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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 …
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/10/27/caching-orthodoxy/
18 days ago
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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…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/10/24/its-been-a-minute/
21 days ago
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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…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/10/22/stuff-i-get-no-longer/
23 days ago
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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…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/10/20/lone-star-roundup-2025/
25 days ago
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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…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/10/17/keep-on-going/
28 days ago
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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…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/10/15/the-healing-ecosystem/
30 days ago
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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…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/10/13/our-comedy-and-errors/
about 1 month ago
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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 …
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/10/10/some-loss-some-drudgery-some-expectation/
about 1 month ago
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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 …
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/10/08/i-do-not-countenance-erasure/
about 1 month ago
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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,…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/10/06/entropy-sounds-ominous/
about 1 month ago
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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 …
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/10/03/just-when-you-least-expect-it/
about 1 month ago
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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…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/10/01/the-postal-service/
about 1 month ago
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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…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/09/29/something-i-did/
about 2 months ago
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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…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/09/26/all-the-things-i-havent-done/
about 2 months ago
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Gnomish Hegemony
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Gnomish Hegemony
My comically antagonistic relationship with gnomes was originally spurred by interactions regarding them from a video game a thousand years ago. It is known of among my oldest friends but not so mu…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/09/24/gnomish-hegemony/
about 2 months ago
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C.A.T. Dos And Other Things
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C.A.T. Dos And Other Things
This was a weekend of peopling for me. Saturday was the second annual TXGA CITO Across Texas. A number of CITOs happened all across the state at the same time so that we were all relieving the burd…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/09/22/c-a-t-dos-and-other-things/
about 2 months ago
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The Thorn Birds
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The Thorn Birds
I parked on a neighborhood street by a neighborhood park to go get my daily cache. I bypassed another cache on the way because I saw in the last finder’s log that it involved a hundred-foot b…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/09/19/the-thorn-birds/
about 2 months ago
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Down Where The Tex Meets The Mex
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Down Where The Tex Meets The Mex
Don’t tell anyone, but Monday was my birthday. I don’t usually do anything special for it; I don’t consider it anything more than another day for most purposes. Under normal circumstances, I would…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/09/17/down-where-the-tex-meets-the-mex/
about 2 months ago
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My Grasp Exceeds Its Reach
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2 months ago
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Veneer
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Veneer
I’m about to touch on a subject I usually avoid, not only because it’s unseemly to discuss in public under most circumstances, but also because … well, you’ll see. I donR…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/09/12/veneer/
2 months ago
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My Proverbial Backyard
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My Proverbial Backyard
A couple of days ago, I went out to get a cache. This is not an earth-shattering revelation. I wasn’t feeling all that great so I wanted to find the easiest one I could find that involved the…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/09/10/my-proverbial-backyard/
2 months ago
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It Had To Do
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It Had To Do
The goal for my weekend was to get out of the city onto some back roads somewhere to just grab a bunch of caches and enjoy some solitude. Unfortunately, that was not to be. The Austin area had much…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/09/08/it-had-to-do/
2 months ago
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I Need What I've Been Missing
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I Need What I’ve Been Missing
A couple of days ago, I picked up the first little library cache I’ve seen in a long time. It’s not that they’re especially rare or anything. It’s just that they’re us…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/09/05/i-need-what-ive-been-missing/
2 months ago
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Working Hard? Hardly Working!
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Working Hard? Hardly Working!
The Girls were still here for Labor Day so we decided to go for a little drive south to nearby Buda. Just as Pflugerville has effectively become north Austin, Buda is the southern equivalent (thoug…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/09/03/working-hard-hardly-working/
2 months ago
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Missed It By That Much!
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Missed It By That Much!
Saturday afternoon, the Girls and I were doing our thing around the house (in this case, a whole lot of nothing) when I just happened to check my emails as I am wont to do from time to time. I noti…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/09/01/missed-it-by-that-much/
2 months ago
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A Different Kind Of Graveyard
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A Different Kind Of Graveyard
Wednesday night I attended an event at an outdoor brewhouse/restaurant. Our host was none other than FTFGuy, publisher of FTF Magazine. A good time was had by all. We introduced one of the employee…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/08/29/a-different-kind-of-graveyard/
3 months ago
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Behold My Shortcomings
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Behold My Shortcomings
Monday was another Event that I couldn’t miss. It was held at a restaurant that the Girls and I have frequented on many occasions (we like onigiri, OK?) and it was right on the way between wo…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/08/27/behold-my-shortcomings/
3 months ago
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A Seventh Year Gone By
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A Seventh Year Gone By
Yesterday was the seventh anniversary of this site. It never ceases to amaze me that anyone would read anything that I wrote, much less having the knowledge that some of you have been doing it for …
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/08/25/a-seventh-year-gone-by/
3 months ago
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The Second Best Happening
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The Second Best Happening
Yesterday morning, the Girls, visiting from L-Town, and I went out to grab a cache. Since my car is still in the shop, we were going to have a bus-based adventure, but I wimped out and decided to u…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/08/25/the-second-best-happening/
3 months ago
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How Do I Get One?
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How Do I Get One?
It’s rare these days I find myself in truly urban forest. I have a tendency to stick to park lands when I “rough it” lately, mostly because I’m getting farther and farther out for my daily caches …
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/08/22/how-do-i-get-one/
3 months ago
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The Ants Go Marching
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The Ants Go Marching
No, I haven’t been to a Spanish Geotour that started and ended a year into my geocaching career. You see, many years ago when I lost a car, I was bus bound and did a lot of caching in town. S…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/08/20/the-ants-go-marching/
3 months ago
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People May Make Plans
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People May Make Plans
From a non-caching perspective, my weekend was absolutely lovely. From a caching perspective though, it was 50% failure. I was going to make a trip on Saturday morning out of town to somewhere wher…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/08/18/people-may-make-plans/
3 months ago
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Meanwhile...
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Meanwhile…
It doesn’t take a mathematician to calculate it’s been over a month since I returned from Colorado. The downside of going there instead of some of my other options was that the terrain …
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3 months ago
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Lessons
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Lessons
So, what did I bring back from Colorado? Well, I don’t know if you picked up on this subtle throughline that I wove into the narrative, but I hate mountain passes. They are the most difficult typ…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/08/13/lessons-8/
3 months ago
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880. Leadville, Lake County (CO64)
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880. Leadville, Lake County (CO64)
The front of the courthouse was partially obscured, but that I cannot blame on the trees. There was some kind of event there, so they put up a canopy for it. Not the first time I’ve run into a cour…
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3 months ago
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879. Aspen, Pitkin County (CO63)
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879. Aspen, Pitkin County (CO63)
The drive into Aspen was not at all what I expected. It was all a wide main road, highway-like even, until I hit the town and then the courthouse. And look at the gorgeous beast of a courthouse i…
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3 months ago
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878. Eagle, Eagle County (CO62)
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878. Eagle, Eagle County (CO62)
I know it’s hard to tell that the county associates itself with eagles, so the giant eagle over the doorway of the courthouse was a helpful, much needed clue. It actually wasn’t a courthouse, it wa…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/08/07/878-eagle-eagle-county-co62/
3 months ago
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877. Glenwood Springs, Garfield County (CO61)
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877. Glenwood Springs, Garfield County (CO61)
I was almost a little amazed that I even found the courthouse in Glenwood Springs. There were so many options to choose from: a county administration building, the clerk’s office, another combined…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/08/06/877-glenwood-springs-garfield-county-co61/
3 months ago
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876. Meeker, Rio Blanco County (CO60)
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876. Meeker, Rio Blanco County (CO60)
Future Arborists of America, attend! This is another perfect example of the front of a courthouse being ruined by ill-placed trees! Getting a closer look at the entranceway, I feel the …
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/08/05/876-meeker-rio-blanco-county-co60/
3 months ago
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875. Grand Junction, Mesa County (CO59)
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875. Grand Junction, Mesa County (CO59)
I was pretty confused figuring out where to go for the courthouse. The closest nominee I could find was the combined District Courts, which may or may not have been the right building, but I …
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/08/04/875-grand-junction-mesa-county-co59/
3 months ago
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874. Moab, Grand County (UT11)
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874. Moab, Grand County (UT11)
It was an auspicious sign as I rolled into town and saw fireworks. It was the Fourth of July after all. I saw lovely explosions in the air all the way from the outskirts to the courthouse. I was…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/08/01/874-moab-grand-county-ut11/
3 months ago
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873. Monticello, San Juan County (UT10)
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873. Monticello, San Juan County (UT10)
Back on Utah again! Just as Manila was easier to get to from Wyoming, Monticello was only a short drive from Dove Creek. That said, I doubt Thomas Jefferson imagined either of them. I managed to…
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/07/31/873-monticello-san-juan-county-ut10/
4 months ago
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872. Dove Creek, Dolores County (CO58)
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872. Dove Creek, Dolores County (CO58)
I don’t especially like to speak ill of courthouses (unless they’re egregiously bad), but I feel that the Dolores County Courthouse speaks for itself. It’s definitely not in my top ten (which, now …
https://geocachingwhileblack.com/2025/07/30/872-dove-creek-dolores-county-co58/
4 months ago
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