ldyparadox99

If you end up in the NL, there are free wi-fi points everywhere. I think I have a 1g data plan and I've NEVER reached the limit since my phone connects to all the wi-fi as I pass. Then in other countries, restaurants usually have free wi-fi (I think McDonalds and Starbucks does around the world). It's where I usually stop and check mail and whatnot when I'm out and about. Last week when I was in the UK, I was using it to locate geocaches but it was grey and rainy and I didn't have luck with finding anything before the battery was sucked from the phone, but I was still able to use mcdonald's wifi to search. ;-)

We finally figured out our first multi that includes triangulation. Hubby found a nifty android tool called GeoMT that did triangulation with crossing circles. It does a bunch of other thing for waypoint calculations but we haven't played anymore with it. Unfortunately, it isn't free (think it was .99 euro cents), but it was extremely accurate. We're actually looking forward to trying our next multi now. ;-)

Had my first this week. I was doing an urban cache near my office and it was on the side of a business. I of course was looking at my phone and was trying to pinpoint what it was. So these two ladies were getting on their bikes and asked me if I was lost. I told them no, was just out for a walk. They told me I couldn't go there because it was a private area. I was like, oh, ok, I won't go too far back. Then one of the ladies looks at me funny and points right at the geocache and asks if that was what I was looking for. At that point I just laughed and asked her if I was that obvious. She said she saw the compass on my phone. As the ladies rode off, the one was explaining geocaching to the other. ;-)

I started 2 weeks ago or so and so far haven't found 2 out of 9 I actively looked for. One of the 2 was while we were in Osnabruck and I think it was geared more towards those that knew the area already and whatnot. Plus my mother was still foofooing it (I converted her) and didn't want to hang around in that area all day. Of the 9, there were also 2 that took going back to several times. One was a micro (found that sucker tonight! first micro find!), had to go back 2x. The other was actually our second cache and a multi that we accidentally started. Around here they say Ikea tests marriages...no, I think multi caches do! ;-) But, after trying 6x over 2 weeks, we finally found it last night. When we finally got the final location right (we were there 3 of the 6x) we spend probably about 4 hours total looking. We found it when we were about ready to do another walk of shame back to the car. And incidentally, I found out that the area of the forest I've been jogging through for the past 3 years has a randomly spawned set of concrete stairs leading up to a giant fire pit. That was a little surreal.

I'm a table top gamer (think dungeons and dragons) and always come up with tricky traps and puzzles for my players to navigate through in the fantasy world. A few weeks ago my husband told me I should start geocaching since it's real life treasure hunt. I started looking into it and watched some videos on some of the neater caches that were well thought out and put together (some outright devious and evil) and decided to give it a go on my own. I may only have 6 finds to my name so far, but I accidentally started a multi that has kept my husband and I busy for about 2 weeks. Just found it tonight and now he's looking for the next multi to start! I think the person that got me hooked (or created a monster as he claims) has had a dose of his own medicine! LOL