Placing our first Geocache
A while back, I went geocaching with my daughter Kate. We spent quite a while hunting for an elusive cache not far from where we live but we thoroughly enjoyed the experience of being outdoors in the sunshine, using GPS technology to have a bit of real world fun. In fact we enjoyed it so much that after we signed the cache's logbook and returned to the car to drive home, Kate asked if we could place our own cache some time for other people to find. What a great idea. I've been wanting to place a cache of my own for a while, but Katie was the impetus I needed to actually do it. So, no time like the present, we took a detour on the way home and went via the local Dollar Store, picked out a suitable plastic container, a handful of inexpensive trinkets to include inside it, and a small notebook to use as the logbook... all this for less that $20 (and it could have been much less if we weren't being extravagant with the trinkets) We went home, printed out the official geoc...