Geocaching with Linda!

Through a couple of co-workers, I've become a bit involved in a sport called geocaching. Because of the technology involved, it's been called hide and seek for nerds. The following is the definition on the geocaching website.

Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for gps users. Participating in a cache hunt is a good way to take advantage of the wonderful features and capability of a gps unit. The basic idea is to have individuals and organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the internet. GPS users can then use the location coordinates to find the caches. Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards. All the visitor is asked to do is if they get something they should try to leave something for the cache.

My co-workers and I looked on the website and found a downtown site, close enough that we could try it over our lunch hour. We found the first site had a clue to the next site... and another. Finally, we found a tupperware container with the log of those who'd also found their way to the site. Also, we found the little jeep in the picture; that tag attached to it has a number on the other side and, when entered into the website, you find that it's been a few places around town. A couple weeks later, we went out and found another site that had ornaments for the taking. Fun!

Since I'd had a little success and talked about it with Linda, it was just a matter of time before I'd have to take her out to try one. Recent snow made it a little more challenging but we gave it a shot. In the image, she's looking for a tag that she did find. When we looked at the back, we found the GPS coordinates to another site. We moved on to the next site and Linda had her first find. I'm guessing we'll be doing some more of this in days to come.