Just2ofus

We did it! I got the Etrex Legend and manually entered 5 waypoints last night. Surprised the kids with it this morning (my 9yr old daughter is now involved also, lol) and we went caching today. 2 finds, 1 dnf, 1 too many people around to look for and 1 find but it was all over the path (not sure how to log that one actually). This was so much fun and the kids had a blast! They really wanted to trade for items but we didn't bring anything because I wasn't sure how this would go over. Next time we'll have our items ready They chose our new team name " The Zodiac Pack" (which there is actually 6 of us. 2 moms, 4 kids) The Legend is very easy to learn and use and I had the swing of it within the 1st hour. Thanks to all of you for the great advice & info!

Thank you all so much! It has come down to the etrex yellow & the etrex legend. Leaning more towards the Legend based on it being able to have other maps, which him & I will learn to use later on. I do have a question though. On the Legend, because of there being a basemap will there be a little dot representing "us" on the map, and will it move in realtime? This is so exciting, thanks!

Hello all. I'm a single mom with a 10 yr old son that has expressed interest in geocaching. I looked it up (which led me to this site) and it does sound very interesting, actually sounds like a lot of fun! I have looked at different GPS units and it's all very confusing to me. Could any of you give us a recommendation of what GPS is easiest to learn and to use? I'm not concerned with all the bells and whistles, but just something that is easy to understand. We're both excited to try this out. I just don't want to get a GPS and it takes days or weeks to learn it which prolongs us going out to get our first 'cache'. He has his heart set on next weekend and i'm hoping to be able to do it by then. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!