We were sitting around talking with Larry and Mary Ellen and the subject of geocaching came up. Jan and I have been looking into it just a bit and it turns out L&ME are old hands in geocaching. After they explained more about it, off we went to look for 5 different caches within a 1/2 mile or so of their apartment. Turns out they are everywhere both in urban and rural areas! Geocaching is finding, with the use of a GPS, little stashes that people have hidden here and there. They may be trinkets or challenges or puzzles or all sorts of things. You can sign onto geocaching.com and see roughly where they are and what they are. Now finding them is another story. Of the 5 we looked for we only found 3. The GPS gets you close and then possibly the clues get you closer, but eventually it just takes poking around to find them. It's pretty interesting and looks to be a neat little hobby that we will do along the way in our travels.
Our campsite in Round Rock, as I mentioned, is in a very nice park called Old Settlers. There are quite a few restored cabins and buildings from the pioneer days amidst huge live oaks and rolling fields. And even if the campground itself is little more than a parking lot, the grounds are beautiful.
The little detour we are on has taken us down to San Antonio, actually just to the northeast of the city. We need to get our exhaust leak taken care of and after asking on the Monacoers forum it turns out that a very highly recommended service facility, Iron Horse RV is right here and they were able to get us an appointment for tomorrow morning. Hopefully they can fix us up quickly and we'll be on our way west! Cross your fingers for us!
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