By Bob Jones, on July 19th, 2010
Geocaching is a great way to have fun
And get some exercise at the same time.
The first thing most people ask is
“What the heck is Geocaching?’.
The simple answer is; People all over the world are involved in hiding “Geocaches” and providing their GPS coordinates on the Internet. Other people go to the Internet site to get locations of caches in their area and go out and find them.
The official Geocaching Web Site is www.geocaching.com and will supply you with everything you need to know to get started. Here is what they say in their FAQ about “What is Geocaching” ; “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.”
I really enjoy the search as well as the “Treasure” I often find. It gives my wife and I some time to enjoy the outdoors and fresh air together and provides for some great photos.
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By Bob Jones, on July 19th, 2010
Since many of you don’t Geocache I thought you may be interested in another aspect of that pastime. It’s called a Cache-In-Trash-Out (CITO). The event I’m going to tell you about took place in 2004 but I feel it’s still interesting. I hope you enjoy this and may decide to take a closer look at Geocaching.
I would like to tell you about a fun and profitable time my wife and I had at a Geocaching event. This one was called a “Cache-In-Trash-Out”. It was at a large city in Central Iowa and was a bit of a drive for us as we live in extreme Eastern Iowa. I had never been to one before and it sounded like fun. A Geocaching club in that area had made arrangements to clean up a piece of land that was officially a park but had never been developed. It was right next to a shopping mall. The plan was to get a number of people together, clean it up and then later place a Geocache in it.
I had planned to go but my Beautiful and Usually Charming wife had other plans and was going to stay home. Knowing that I wasn’t in any shape to be bending over all day picking up junk off the ground I made a broom handle with a nail in the end so I could stab the paper and other junk to pick it up. Since my wife wasn’t sure what she was going to do I made one for her also.
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By Bob Jones, on July 18th, 2010
I have Cabin Fever BAD and my mind is turning more to geocaching every day. I was sitting back and watching the weather forecast and my mind slipped back to the first cache my Lovely Wife, Veronika (known as Pulltabs in the Geocaching world), and I (I’m DigMaster) found. It wasn’t the first one we tried to find, that was Glasford and it had been taken by someone so it wasn’t available. The actual first find was the “Samurai Cat” which we found on March 29, 2001.
I wasn’t smart enough to look at the Difficulty and Terrain values so I almost bit off more than we could chew. At the time I was only 60 years old, just a kid yet, and I asked a friend of mine, Dick who must have been about 70 years old, if he would like to go find a Geocache. After I explained what a Geocache was he thought it sounded like fun so off the three of us went.
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By Bob Jones, on July 18th, 2010
Cabin Fever is setting in pretty bad and geocaching is on my mind. I thought you might like to read about “The Tin Star Sheriff” so here is the tale. Enjoy.
A couple of years ago while out Geocaching we found a Travel Bug named the Tin Star Sheriff. Let me tell you about his visit here in Le Claire, Iowa.
For the younger people that may be reading this, I want you to know that this is just a story I made up to try to entertain you. Jesse James hasn’t been seen for a long long time.
The Tin Star Sheriff and I met just North of town on a pretty nice day for this time of year. It was nice and sunny with just a chill in the air. I was traveling down the road when I found him sitting under a tree waiting for someone to stop in and give him a ride. It seems that the last person that he had visited with got him just as far as Le Claire on his search for the infamous bandit Jesse James. So far he has traveled 8557 miles trailing Jesse every step of the way. I had to admire the old Sheriff for his determination. I doubt if I would still be on the trail after a trip like that. Anyway, back to the story. The Sheriff and I had a nice long visit and my lovely wife, Veronika, (known in the Geocaching circles as Pulltabs) spent her entire day trying to make our guest comfortable.
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