My adventuresome husband has introduced me to geocaching. I think I am addicted! Basically it is a worldwide treasure hunt. "Geocaches" are little containers hidden throughout the countryside in parks and natural areas, and in what would seem like totally obvious places such as the Ace Hardware parking lot. The GPS coordinates for the location are posted on geocache.com. Once you find the cache, you sign the log book, take a little treasure, and leave a treasure. There are tags and coins that are tracked from cache to cache all over the world.
The surprising thing is - it seems like you are in a place that noone could possibly know about but then you read the log book and several people have already been there that day! After you find your caches, you log the sites you've found on geocache.com. You can also view comments from others, who have found caches and see profiles of their finds.
There are literally sites everywhere from Kansas to the Czech Republic. The sites are placed by fellow geocachers. Anyone can place them.
We went to one site in the middle of nowhere in Blue and Gray Park on an abandonned road and there were two other groups there looking for it (pic above)! These folks were clearly adventure types as evidenced by their sporty fleece jackets and trendy cowboy hats.
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I love that picture, it's like the land that time forgot. The dog was like their little remote observation drone, zipping around all over the place. I got a picture of his paw prints.
Geocaching is so much fun. I'll have to get you a Gordon Geeko GPS.
My sister is so into Ceocaching, when ever she comes to visit we go!! It's so much fun. I have only found three. Sometimes they can be hard to find. But it is fun!!
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