Butterflyjkg

I FOUND IT!!! I actually found my first cache! On my second try, I made sure my coords were in minutes and I set it to "walk mode" after I got out of my car at the park. It told me to "make a left" and it showed 120 yards. I walked over there and it told me to turn around. I did and then it showed me to walk left, I did...and then a white flashing arrow appeared on the screen. I walked until I(the cursor) was on top of the white destination arrow and VOILA! I was with in 3 feet of it!!! It actually worked! I was so excited I almost peed! HA! It was a micro and I found it with no problems. I think the first time I inputed the wrong W direction... I missed a 0. Perhaps that is what the problem was? Not sure.. but I offically found my first cache! I am very excited. I hope it works as well the next time I hunt one, which might be this afternoon!

One more thing I forgot to ask. I thought that with this TomTom.. if you typed in the address, it took you t here, which it did as I set it to go to my dad's house. It didn't say I had reached my destination until I was literally directly in front of it. You can also put a general street or your latitude and longitude. Why wouldn't it take me directly to that latitude and longitude like it did the house number? Or is it that it does, but the general area of that lat. and long. is a wide area? Surely it must get closer, or what would you be able to go by the lat. and long.? I am thinking that if I am in PA, I should be able to put in coords for someone in Ohio and be directed pretty darn close to their area or am I dreaming? Does that make sense. If I were standing in the middle of the woods on exactly a specific lat. and long.... what sort of circumference would surround me until my coords changed? How specific is it ? 50 feet until my coords would change?? Like I said, I was sleeping that day in school. Anyone know the general way that works?? Perhaps she is taking me there, but the area is so wide I can't find my spot or smaller area to search. How close can you get with YOURS? Does it mark it with an X , a flag, a voice? What do other GPS units do??

Oh Scooby Doo! I had a feeling I had gotten the wrong GPS. It was on sale and I couldn't resist it. My father wants one just like mine , so maybe he would like this one and I could get a Garmin like yours. Yes, I did do that trick. I tapped on "where am I" and looked at the coords. We then started walking to lower them to match the cache coords and it just didn't work. We ran out of park, and we were nowhere (according to this GPS) near the coords. To make matters worse, we didn't have any compass at all... didn't realize I had a choice of one on this GPS. Like I said, I didn't do much research and just went at it. My Lat. and Long. coords have 3 choice setting too, like I am sure they all do. My was on "degrees" setting when we left. I got home and looked this thing over good and thought perhaps it should have been set on "minutes" (d'm.m') ??? which resembled the numbers I put in for the coords. As you can see, I was sleeping on that day in class when we learned about latitude and longitude. I guess I never thought I would need it! I am just wondering still with this, if I could get closer if I knew what exactly I am trying to follow on this TomTom. Her speaking directions or my coords or the checkered flag or what... they are leading me in 3 different spots. What are you following on your Garmin? Are you walking to match up your coords or what is on yours that you visually follow?? Perhaps I will let my dad have this one... and get a Garmin? What do you think. This TomTom was 200$ and I got it on sale for 120. I couldn't resist. Perhaps I will try to go again today. With the compass ON this time HA! and the coords display set to minutes? I know it's a simple find, I just feel like an idiot. I am so anxious to find one, I actually dreamt about it last night! Perhaps I will get the hang of it before I get too discouraged. ???? I appreciate you taking the time to reply to my posting. I know it sounds very Newbie, but that is just what it is! Everyone starts somewhere! Thank you.

Hi everyone. I just purchased a TomTom One 3rd edition. Decided to try to find a neighborhood cache. I have NO idea what I am doing. I punched in the coords under "navigate to". Started from my home. I know the park that this is in. Followed it to the park, via my car. Immediately upon entering the park she says " you have reached your destination". Okay. We get out and start walking. I am thinking that she (TomTom) is going to guide me closer to my spot. Now, do I try to walk to the "checkered" flag on this GPS? Am I following her voice commands? We were actually trying to walk closer to the coords... never happened. I got all the way at the other end of the park and she kept saying TURN AROUND yet I was no where near my coords. I would have had to go 8 miles south or so. We were there for SO long I wanted to scream. My husband said my GPS is wrong. He said in order for us to be at the cache coords, we would have to be ten miles away from this park. I finally did turn around like she said and just started walking to match myself (cursor) with the checkered flag. Is this what I want? Should I be ignoring my lat. and long. and just going for the flag regardless of what she tells me? There is a feature on here to map it out "walking". Do I want THAT? I have NO idea what I am doing. Exactly how far away from these coords can/will I be when she tells me I have reached my destination? Will I be in a half mile radius? 50 Ft. ?Am I trying to match me (cursor) to the checkered flag or what? Would someone please be kind enough to help this lost newbie? I was so fired up about this... I don't wanna be discouraged and lose interest. As far as the compass on this thing goes, what setting is best for this? Always point to N? Always point in the direction of the cache? HELP PLEASE! I feel like I am nutz. This cache is a 1.. very simple.. yet I just about ran out of battery power trying to find it. Finally we just went home.. it got so frustrating . Any other TomTom users out there? I am sure this one may not be the best for doing this sort of thing, but it's what I have. Any advice would be great. I was so excited to do this and now I am so disappointed.