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Fire that rascal up and enjoy knowing your speed, altitude, bearing and heading. It's a wonderful distraction during a long flight. I've used it on several flights and nobody ever asked me not to. I usually enter the destination airfield as a waypoint and do a go to, so I can see how far and how much longer I'll have on the flight. I turn it off when passengers are asked to turn off all "personal electronic devices."

Go Garmin. The geocachers I meet almost always have a Garmin in their paws. I have no complaints about the one I own.

I like to leave date nails that I pried up from an old rail bed. I must've pulled out 300-400. I leave 'em in a little baggie and a card explaining what they are. Most of them are about 80 years old or so.

Trusty ol' Etrex yellow. For the purists (cheapskates) who believe built-in barometers, magnetic compasses and WAAS enabling is cheating. Plus it goes more than twice as far on a set of batteries than an Etrex Vista.

I dreamt my father gave me a clunky old GPsr from the telephone company he worked at. Although it was old it, had a giant display with advanced features. I looked ot the display and was surprised to see all the coordinates for a multi-cache listed in order. The really neat feature is that the unit automatically displayed the cache I was closest to.

My very first cache was a cache not far from where I live. I enterered the coordinates on my new Etrex, and with great anticipation used the GOTO feature to navigate to the area. I looked and looked for the booty but eventually realized that it was too well hidden for the first timer. Later I discovered what the little ghost was besides the coordinates, and that a "virtual cache" has nothing hidden. Doh!