Treasure Hunting
Michelle on Dec 05 2006 at 12:02 pm | Filed under: The Personal, The Photos
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Enough with the negative depressing posts already! Finally I have something cool and positive to tell yall about. Husband (yes, things have much improved) turned me on to geocaching. It is wicked cool. You take a portable GPS system–it can even be a GPS-enabled cell phone–and use it to find coordinates that are posted on the geocaching.com website. When you find the coordinates, you look for a little box that has a log in it. You write down the date you found it, etc., and put it back. Some of them have little goodies in them that you exchange, and you can even hide your own. The website will tell you how many are in radius that you designate from your home, and give you the coordinates, clues and other information, such as when the cache was last found.
This is Younger Son in a historic cemetary where two of the caches were supposed to be. We looked and looked. We found nothing, but we had a blast trying. The magnolia is simply huge, and so beautiful. Older Son, aka House Arrest Boy, had lots of fun using the GPS to get us there, since the rest of us were a bit slower on the learning curve. I find it ironic that since House Arrest Boy must be supervised at all times, he is forced to go with me to the store, church, and yes, even fun healthy outdoor activities instead of staying in his room all of the time. So house arrest has sort of turned out to be Get Son Outside Of The House arrest. I am amused.
A sad time 100 years ago. Some of the graves here are much older. I plan to go again and take materials to do rubbings.
We went along a trail to find another cache. This is another one we didn’t find. When we returned home, we discovered that the three we had went looking for hadn’t been found for months, which means that they most likely weren’t there anymore. At least that’s what we’d like to believe, since we had four people looking. Next time, we’ll do better research before setting out.
The foliage and the overall environs was really beautiful. I’m glad to have done this. It was good for my soul. Actually, I think it was good for everybody. I can’t wait to do it again next weekend!
My brother took me geocaching once. You’re right - it’s fun. And I love cemeteries. So geocaching in a cemetery? Two great tastes that taste great together.
How fun is that? I’m glad you guys are spending family time together. “House arrest” might just end up being an OK thing. sorta… kinda… you take my point, right?
That sounds like a lot of fun! It’s also great you all got to do it together and was so enjoyable. So now we will look forward to your geocaching adventures.
Nice pictures. I think I like the headstone picture and the creek picture the best.
Anything that leads to togetherness, activity in the beautiful outdoors, and fun can’t be bad! I’m glad that life is looking up.
So glad to hear you all had such fun together. I’ve just looked it up on the google and found there are quite a few sites in France but just one cache within 100 kms of here. So maybe by the time we get a GPS (probably a long time) there will be more caches near here.
I’ve been wanting to do this! It’s very popular around here, and what I think would be fun is to geocache at little islands in the area that you have to get to via kayak. I also think it would be fun to set one up. And have a special blog established for those who encounter the stash.
That last photo is brimming with ecological charm, I think.
And definitely a sad story told on that headstone. I’m not sure if it’s a shame or a blessing that such tragedies fade with age.