Anyone else Geocache?
Anyone else here do this?
I recently found yet another obsession--geocaching. You have to love a hobby that leads to interesting places, challenges you(sometimes physically, sometimes mentally, sometimes both), and sometimes makes you feel like a secret agent in a cheesy movie trying to locate hidden items in public places without giving away what you're doing. Plus, it's basically free since I use the "c:geo" app and GPS on my phone.
Today I had my son with me while I was locating a cache in a public park. It's fun balancing playing with him, monitoring everyone around us and the whole time I have a secret mission to complete--determine the approximate location of the cache, search for it, find it, open it, sign the log, replace it, conceal it, and not get noticed. I swear I could hear the James Bond Theme in my head the whole time. One of todays caches was in a place I have not only walked by thousands of times...I helped build it. I was sitting less than a yard away from the cache no more than two months ago!
If you're interested google "geocache" and check it out. Like I said, if you have a smart phone or already own a GPS receiver it's all free too--I recommend using either "GPS Essentials" or the "GPS Status" apps for navigating with Android smartphones. A smartphone is plenty good enough for this IMHO, but a dedicated GPS unit would be really handy since GPS tends to eat phone batteries.
The grass is greener on the other side of the fence...and it's usually greenest right above the septic tank.
Allen
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