Freightdawg

I'm just curious how you generated the list. ???

I'm going to add a PS Anyone using a Garmin Geko 301? Comments? Thanks.

Holoholo Girl's Right Rubbah Slippah and Holoholo Boy's Left Rubbah Slippah on an MD-11. In the middle of the screen it says GNS POS. Right below that is the lat/long of our present position. Pull out your atlas if you want to see where they were. Note the longitude is E. Freightdawg

I'll grant that 10 is hardly 1000+, but I'll drop my 2 pennies about why I THINK I'll still be doing this after a thousand or two. The average distance between my home and my finds is 4,342.12 miles. That's not a typo. I fly internationally, and though the Navy (no, I'm not in the Navy) offers the opportunity to travel to far off, exotic places, I've got news for you. After going a time or two they're no longer exotic, they're just FAR OFF. Geocaching gives me an opportunity to get out of my hotel room and see some stuff the tourists don't see. I probably get to see things the locals don't see. Plus the hiking around is great exercise. I compete in triathlons, but after flying for 10+ hours, the last thing I want to do is swim a couple of thousand meters or run a few miles. And I don't carry a bike with me. But today the GPS said I put in over 7 miles of walking, and that'll help burn off all the crap calories consumed when I have little control over what I eat. I've also been having a blast getting to "know" some folks online thanks to Geocaching. I picked up 2 TBs in Hawaii last week from a couple who want to see which bug will make it home first in AZ. I dropped one in Hong Kong and one in Anchorage. They were thrilled when I e-mailed them with pictures of where their bugs had been. I got some great help from the owner of a cache in Hong Kong. It was a brand new cache and I was having a tough time keeping a signal among the buildings. I probably would have just written it off as a DNF, but I REALLY wanted to drop one of the TBs there. And today I wrote the owner of a cache in Anchorage for some help. It was a brilliant cache that takes you to an "information board" (for lack of a better term) and from clues on the board you get the coordinates to the actual cache. When I went by where the cache was, there were muggles everywhere. So I headed to lunch and the hotel room. I e-mailed him to confirm my answers for the cache coordinates so I wouldn't be wasting my time when I go back in the morning, and when he wrote back he even included his cell number if I needed more help. It's nice to know there are still people in the world who will go out of their way to help a complete stranger. Probably more than you really wanted to know. Happy caching. Freightdawg

I'm interested in getting a GPSr with built-in mag compass. But the ones (Garmin) I've looked at so far have me choking on the price. How cheap can I go and still be happy with the rest of the unit? TIA Jeff aka Freightdawg

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