Sunday, June 26, 2011

Personal Heroes

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I thought I might go on a bit about some particularly exceptional people in my life. I had thought about doing so a couple of months back, w...
Saturday, June 25, 2011

We All Scream

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Spillway on the Dan River, viewed from the Riverwalk Trail. It was up and out early, bound for Danville, for a bunch of new caches and a gat...
Friday, June 24, 2011

No Dead Baby Jokes, Please

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I found it just off the Palmetto Trail, near Lake Brandt, in north Greensboro. An old geocache had been archived, thus opening that area up ...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

THE GAKI Gets the Treatment

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New review at FlamesRising.com . Nice.
Sunday, June 19, 2011

Father's Day 2011

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Dad died just over ten years ago—April 11, 2001. A great man he was. Seen here with a strange little dude, sometime in 1959.
Saturday, June 18, 2011

Caches, Cemeteries, and Catses

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Ms. B. at Old Union Cemetery, near Stokesdale, NC Off with Ms. B. to Stonefield Cellars Winery in Stokesdale this afternoon, where both the ...
Friday, June 17, 2011

The Wacky Tobacco Trail

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The American Tobacco Trail is a 22-mile rails-to-trails project over in the Triangle area, a portion of which passes through the extensive C...
Sunday, June 12, 2011

June Madness

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It's a big month for adaptations of H. P. Lovecraft's short novel, At the Mountains of Madness . Italian filmmaker Michele Boticelli...
Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Bigfoot's Library

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Despite the heat and unruly hordes of bloodsucking critters, it was necessary to hide a new trail cache. Thus, there is a new one, which h...
Saturday, June 4, 2011

Scarecrows

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I recall seeing the box art for the 1988 horror flick, Scarecrows , back in the dark ages when I used to go down to the video store and ren...
Sunday, May 29, 2011

Great Blue Heron Nursery

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It was up and out fairly early today to hunt up some new trail caches not far from here. They're in an area of woods I've only enter...
Saturday, May 28, 2011

Old Man Riv...er...Rodan on the Hunt

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Kicked off the long Memorial Day weekend with a bunch of caching. Yeah, shock of shocks, right? Last night, I headed up to Danville; went af...
Sunday, May 22, 2011

Caching Post-Apocalypse

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Salem Lake is looking more like Salem Plain these days. To celebrate surviving yesterday's obviously devastating apocalypse, I set my mi...
Friday, May 20, 2011

FAMOUS MONSTERS Reviews THE GAKI

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And it's an okay review. I smile. "This outstanding collection brings together some of Mr. Rainey’s previously published works and ...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

BLUE DEVIL ISLAND Paperback Now Available!

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Hooray for Marietta Publishing, who has released my novel, Blue Devil Island (originally published in hardback by Thomson Gale/Five Star, ...
Saturday, May 14, 2011

Decree Received

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Le temps de bonheur, 1986 I keep this blog as much as for me as for any interested readers, and today, I'm writing one primarily for m...
Friday, May 13, 2011

Gods of Moab

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If you've been following ye olde author's escapades here and on Facebook, you're probably achingly aware that I've been work...
Saturday, May 7, 2011

The Orange Jacket!

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A fun evening in Burlington, finding a few caches and attending Geoputt (GC2QDVH)—yes indeed, a geocaching Putt-Putt event! In my younger da...
Monday, May 2, 2011

Unrest in the Planet of the Apes

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It's kind of cool to have Osama Bin Laden dead for my birthday, but my satisfaction is tempered by a certainty that there will now be mu...
Sunday, May 1, 2011

My Not-Yet-My-Birthday Party

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 Okay, not so much a party as a hike. Well, a pair of hikes, actually. Just as much fun as a party—unless you count those parties where peo...
Monday, April 25, 2011

Jess Franco's COUNT DRACULA

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At some dimly remembered point in my past—probably the late 70s—I happened upon the 1970 Spanish-Italian production of Count Dracula , direc...
Saturday, April 23, 2011

Dead People in the Woods

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It's always fun to find dead people in the woods. Today's geocache outing included hiking at Philpott Lake, VA, not far from the ...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

Cache In...Weeds Out

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Geocaching Weed-Eaters Geocaching isn't all just going after containers hidden in the woods and under light pole skirts. A fair part...
Sunday, April 17, 2011

Coordinate Crossing

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The old dude in the photo is thinking, "I have to climb up that ?" Mercy...it's been such a week that blogging hasn't...
Monday, April 11, 2011

Ten Years After

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Today, it's ten years since my dad passed away. A while back, I found this photo of the Midget League Basketball team I was on—1968 or 1...
Sunday, April 10, 2011

Here We Go Flying Again

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If you are particularly fond of flying through the air on cables suspended from treetops, like I am, then ziplining is just the activity for...