HappyCatahoula

What about painting the inside of a clear container then coating it with a couple coats of clear?

FYI - the West Texas site hasn't had anything posted since 2008 and the Amarillo Yahoo group has little chatter.

Ah Ha! Figured it was something like that. Thanks! You're a better Googler than I am...

OK...some kind of error occurred and my message didn't post.... Found a gold coin today about the size of a quarter. It has the words X-Mark Token around the outside and IDX large in the middle with tiny numbers underneath. Looks more like just a swag thing, but those numbers have me wondering if it may be a trackable from another site or something...

crossmage: Thanks for the tip about Dallas! I'm going to be there this weekend on my way back to Amarillo. Will look it up and see if I can attend. And thanks about the other tips too! Dont know much about the WF area. novw: No PM....can you resend?

OH MY GOSH!! Do NOT read this post with a mouth full of hot coffee! This is SO! me!!

What appeared to be an old black rubber glove filled with spray foam. Found today. Kinda creepy, especially since all the fingers were missing.

Wow! You really *are* doing a Tour de Tejas! Where are you from? Don't recognize Almere. Houston is crowded, polluted, and HUMID! NOT my favorite place to go as you can guess...But the Space Museum is cool. Be sure to get yourself some dehydrated ice cream! It's a scream! Havent been to pecos or del rio. Be sure to visit the river walk in San Antonio and maybe Sea World. Have only driven through Wichita Falls. It's roughly half way between DFW & Lubbock/Amarillo. Lubbock is only about 90 minutes south of Amarillo. See if the Garza Theater in Post Texas (just outside Lubbock) has anything going on. Last time we were there they had a parody of Robin Hood put on by an all-kid cast. It was great! Wish you'd been here 2-3 weeks earlier. Lubbock is just 90 minutes south of Amarillo/Canyon and the show Texas ( http://www.texas-show.com/ )is held in the Palo Duro Canyon ( http://www.palodurocanyon.com/ ) all summer long. They just finished up their season a couple weeks ago. You'd have loved it! Several caches in the beautiful canyon then an excellant show under the big Texas sky at night with the wall of the canyon as the stage backdrop. This is the longest-running outdoor musical in the states. Maybe next time you're in the states. GREAT show! Depending on when you're in Lubbock and what we have going on, maybe we could meet for some caching down in Lubbock. You could give me some pointers as I have yet to find anything.....

Oh man! Just saw this. I live in Amarillo and would have come if I'd seen it earlier - dang!

I'm in the Texas Panhandle area - Amarillo. Learned about geocaching 6 years ago but it was such a pain to get coordinates in my old GPS that I never really pursued it. Now that I have my Droid I downloaded the c:geo app and it's SOOO much easier to get cache coordinates spur of the moment. Don't have a favorite cache yet, but LOVE hiking in Palo Duro Canyon. I saw that there are several caches there but haven't gone in pursuit of them yet. Will here in a couple weeks once it cools off a bit more and the trees start to change color - too pretty!

Hello and welcome to the great state of Texas! You're sure to find lots of friendly people here and I'm sure you'll enjoy your trip (once you make it out of DFW airport - yuck! very crowded) I'm just getting started on the geocaching stuff so can't answer your questions regarding that, but I'm a lifetime resident of Texas so can give you some pointers there. One of the biggest mistakes visitors to Texas make (even Americans!) is underestimating its size. Texas is BIG! I live in Amarillo (in the "Panhandle" - the box shape at the top of Texas) but am in Killeen on business (in "Central" Texas). It was an 8 hour drive to get here. To get from the northern border of Texas to the southern tip is a good 14-16 hour drive! There's a reason the Texas Tourism commercials use the slogan, "Texas, it's like a whole nother country!" You made reference to Dallas so I'm assuming that's where you're planning to visit. For your information, Dallas is part of what we call the "Metroplex." Dallas and Ft Worth are the two primary (very large!) cities in that area, then there are lots of smaller towns in between and around them. All these cities & towns just kept growing & growing until they all merged into each other. You will be driving down a road and cross into another town with barely a small sign on the road to let you know it happened. Because of all these towns and the dense population, the area can be very congested - especially the Dallas & Ft Worth downtown areas. It takes a good hour to get between Dallas and Ft. Worth - mostly due to traffic. Keep all this in mind as you're planning your cache trips. If you *are* staying in the Dallas/Ft Worth (DFW) area the caches will mainly be urban/suburban. LOTS of concrete in that area! The first & third links you posted came up as being near Houston. It takes about 4 hours to drive from Dallas to Houston. The second link was to Abiline. Not sure, but think that's about 2-3 hours from Dallas. That's probably further than you'd want to drive if you want to get in a bunch of caches in one day. You might want to post which town you'll be staying in, or if you're going to be visiting several areas in Texas. Then we locals can help you chose some good cache areas and/or local attractions to visit. As for weather, it's still very much summer around here. Temps will likely be in the 90F range and the Dallas area tends to be humid, making it feel even hotter. The nights in that area get down into about the 70's this time of year so evenings can be rather pleasant. Up in Amarillo where I'm from we're convinced rain is just a myth . The Dallas area gets more rain but don't know what the outlook is for next week. There are plenty of weather web sites you could check. Hope this information helps you. Again, Welcome to Texas!