Business Trip Geocaching

January 12, 2004

I just got back from a seminar and planned on visiting a couple of caches in the area but never got time. I just wanted to see how many others take a little time to go out when on a business trips.

January 12, 2004

I always cache on business trips, often flying out early or staying an extra day to cache. I have even been known to schedule meetings in places I normally would not go because it looks like an interesting cache area. Like Kansas City and Wichita this week, St. Louis next week. I will have to admit that i generally do caches of terrain level 2 or less when on business trips, just because I will be caching in slacks and hard soles. Lots of virts on the road too, whether you like virts or not you can usually count on them being there, they rarely get plundered.

1.2k · January 12, 2004

If I traveled for Business I wouldn't hesitate to drag along my GPS and a list of cachces.

January 12, 2004

I will often try to leave extra time in my business trips just for that purpose. If I am traveling by auto, so much the better. I plan on caching a little along the way. I simply leave much earlier than I need to or plan to get back later. Sometimes I will add an extra day, chalk it up to travel arrangements. :unsure:

6.5k · January 12, 2004

Always. I don't do a lot of business travel, but there are caches everywhere to be found. I'll even add a day to a trip if I can just to cache or golf. :unsure:

38.2k · January 12, 2004

When I travelled alot, geocaching wasn't born yet. By the time I started geocaching, my company all but ended any business travel and of course, since I was downsized I haven't done any business travel.

But IF I were to travel, I'd certainly geocache after work. It's better than sitting in the hotel bar and way better than staring at the ceiling of your room.

Edited January 12, 2004 by briansnat

7.2k · January 12, 2004

I also do it all the time. Thank goodness for pocket queries and a PDA. I load up 500 caches and away we go. Sometimes my schedule is too tight, but most of the time I take the first flight out and the last flight back home specifically to have time to go caching. I think somewhere around 35 to 40 percent of my found caches are outside of GA. I have seen some great places in the U.S. just because of geocaches taking me there.

2.3k · January 12, 2004

Well, I'd love to... but that would mean I actually got to LEAVE THE OFFICE EVERY NOW AND THEN...

Whoo... a little anger and frustration there.

Joel

2k · January 12, 2004

Two years ago (pre-geocaching involvment) I spent a week in Seattle. Sure wish I had been into it then. Due to the "economic down turn" (read recession) I don't travel on business much any more. When the chance comes up the first thing into the briefcase will be the GPS. :unsure: One of the worst things aboud business travel is finding something to fill up the off work hours. Caching would be great.

January 12, 2004

If you're ever on the west coast I'd really recommend geocaching to one of the sites done by Team KFWB GPS/XTREME GPS TEAM who accornding to one person left $30,000 in a geocache to the first 3 people that found it!

1.3k · January 12, 2004

I don't have business trips but when I travel to a sci-fi convention, I bring the cache info for every cache in the area and also along the way.

20.7k · January 12, 2004

I love to go after caches when I am out of town. If I have a free day, I'll pack in as many caches as I can. If I only have an hour or two here and there, I'll hit some urban micros.

24.7k · January 12, 2004

Absolutely.

January 12, 2004

usually in the late afternoon and early evenings. sure beats hanging around in the hotel room!!

January 12, 2004

The GPS always goes with me on business trips. It doesn't always mean I get to cache but I try. It's harder if you are traveling with a group.

Watch out St. Louis, I'll be there Thursday through Saturday.

2.6k · January 12, 2004

sure beats hanging around in the hotel room!!

Beats even sauna! I'm not sent very often to business trips, but I've used all the chances to cache on those few ons. Last time, after the seminar was over, and everyone else prepared to go to sauna, I borrowed my boss's car and found two nearby caches. I managed to get back to dinner in time. :unsure:

2.3k · January 12, 2004

Any chance I get!!

January 12, 2004

caching on the road is the only thing that stops me from stamping my feet and crying when i get sent out. a lot of my work travel is 8 hours of driving for 25 minutes of surveying. i print out several cache sheets for the area i'm going to and hit them after...okay sometimes before... my appointments.

January 13, 2004

There really isn't anything like driving around in a new community, looking for a park that you didn't realize was up the wrong way on the "new" road, to look for an ammo can full of Mctoys! Seriously, I do go caching when out of town and I like to take TBs with me if the business trip location jives with the TB's goals. I guess I get a kick out adding some miles to the TB's and getting them closer to their goals. It also sharpened up my caching skills (first night cache, in a new area, with unfamiliar roads, etc. Loved it! Still managed to get tanked in the hotel bar after the caching :unsure: .

January 13, 2004

I am looking forward to my seminar in Las Vegas next week due to the crap load out there. Most by the hotel are virtual caches but only 5 or so miles to a traditional cache. Viva Las Caches!

2k · January 13, 2004

I am looking forward to my seminar in Las Vegas next week due to the crap load out there. Most by the hotel are virtual caches but only 5 or so miles to a traditional cache. Viva Las Caches!

You might want to contact nevadageocaching.com. Most of the membership is from the Las Vegas area, they are very helpfull to visiting geocachers.

9.1k · January 13, 2004

VENDOR: Since your company is our largest customer, we'd like to invite you tor a two-day conference about redesigning our product offerings. Your input would be helpful.

LEP: Where would this be?

VENDOR: Seattle, Washington.

LEP (drooling): Ummm, who would handle the arrangements for my trip?

VENDOR: Everything's on us. Hotel on Puget Sound, rental car, meals... everything.

LEP: Any chance I could upgrade that rental to an SUV? I have some friends in the area and we might want to do a little.... exploring.

VENDOR: Sure, why not?

LEP: Any chance I could sort of forget to catch the flight home, and stay a few days after the conference?

VENDOR: Sure, why not? The roundtrip is cheaper if you stay the weekend.

Chalk up 25 high-quality cache finds on Whidbey Island and in the Everett, Washington area. :unsure:

January 13, 2004

With my wife not enthralled with my geocaching activities business trips are practically the only time I can cache! I was in St Louis a few weeks ago and flew in a day early; rented a car and found 27 in one day (putting 200+ miles on the car). My count for the whole week was almost 40.

I am off to London in a few weeks and am trying to get in a day early so that I will have almost 2 days before getting back to work. (Then I will only be able to night-cache the rest of the week.)

The great thing about caching while on business trips is that almost anywhere I go there are more caches than where I live!

January 13, 2004

I am looking forward to my seminar in Las Vegas next week due to the crap load out there. Most by the hotel are virtual caches but only 5 or so miles to a traditional cache. Viva Las Caches!

You might want to contact nevadageocaching.com. Most of the membership is from the Las Vegas area, they are very helpfull to visiting geocachers.

Thanks for the tip! I will try contacting them. My presentation is done on Wednesday AM and I should have Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning to try and hunt around.

January 13, 2004

Business travel is made more fun with geocaching. Because of this, we now have found caches in 14 states. It is interesting to see the differences in caching philosophy as you travel around. We found one in New England (Massachusetts or New Hampshire) where the clue was - "By a big rock." We walked to the site and there it was - in the middle of a rocky wooded area, in plain sight, by a big rock. In the south and the midwest, most of the caches are fairly easy to find. Indeed, they are placed to be easy to find for the searching geocacher but hard to find for any muggle. In southern California, on the other hand, many cachers take devious delight in placing caches such that confound the most dedicated searchers.

The on trail versus bushwhacking argument also reveals differences. Much of the wilderness in southern California is rather sensitive - a couple of off-trail forays can easily lead to major erosion during the winter's rain. Some of the New England woods and midwestern grasslands seem that offtrail hiking will have no impact.

I'm looking forward to finding at least one cache in every state!

Team Geo-Jedi

January 13, 2004

I am currently sitting in a hotel room in Omaha on a business trip - entering logs and reviewing forums. Flew in a couple days early specifically to do some caching, and snuck out early today because meetings were done. Logged 19 finds, and saw amazing local sites.

Anybody have any discussions going about how caching is different in the various locations they travel?

January 13, 2004

Well that's funny, it's only because of business travel that I actually discovered Geocaching! I was on a trip to Nebraska when a friend introduced me to it - after that, I got a GPS for general navigation.

My family and I used the GPS extensively for travel and navigation, but it wasn't until we went back to Nebraska again - almost a year later - that we really got hooked on Geocaching! The entire family is definitely hooked for good now, I'm just sad it took this long and we missed so many opportunities in our travels this past year to have some real fun.

This same friend is on a business trip up here this week, and we made sure to return the favor and take him out hunting today as well. After all, it's all his fault!

Edited January 13, 2004 by FSU*Noles

1.1k · January 13, 2004

Always. I travel for a living for my job as a software consultant - espeically once daylight savings kicks in, it's the best way to spend evenings after work. Beats filling my fat face and sitting in my hotel room, and I get to explore areas away from the "business traveler shopping/hotel strips" that are the usual only places other business travelers visit. My customers are always impressed that I often know more about the local parks and hiking trails than they do.

-Dave R. in Biloxi

2.7k · January 13, 2004

Probably 1/3 of my finds have been on "lunch break" or "comp time" and I always print out cache pages in any new area to which I am going on business.

My "business trips" are usually out and home in the same day and I will often get a cache on the way home just to break up the trip.

1.6k · January 13, 2004

Cache on vacations and wedding trips. Cached in San Diego at ASH.

January 13, 2004

I always find a cache or two on business trips. Nothing beats driving the rental car around a new area, drinking a latte, munching snacks, and looking for caches at the end of whatever work it was you were doing that day. Sometimes it can get a little hectic trying to squeeze in a cache before catching a plane.

The most fun I had was flying into Coos Bay, OR in a Horizon Dash 8 during wind warnings on a wet and cold November day. I only managed a couple virtuals (struck out on a traditional). But the wave action on the bar was truly awe inspiring.

January 13, 2004

Every chance I get.

I get a bit frustrated by poorly categorized caches though. Mainly, multi- or puzzle- caches that are not categorized as such.

Nothing worse than searching 30 minutes for a "traditional cache" in a foreign city, not finding it, and then going to post a DNF only to read the first 9 words of the description: "There is no cache at the above posted coordinates - "... Grrrrr. Back at the beginning of December, I posted requests to several owners of incorrectly categorized caches to get the cache type changed - they remain badly categorized. []

January 13, 2004

did one in gateshead this aftenoon - about 200 miles away from home - as I got out of the clients business early. I had created a pocket query before I went so I had a list of nearby caches (all two of them) before I left.

January 13, 2004

I used to travel all over northern Europe and western US before I geocached. Now I rarely travel. However, I am travelling to Dallas later this month and will be dragging my GPS and caching PDA along in case I get an opportunity to find a couple of caches. The trouble with business trips is that they are often planned such that you don't really have much spare time during the day. While I do a lot of night caching locally, I'm not too keen on night caching by myself in an unfamiliar city where, it seems, everyone is packing heat. :bad:

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Gorak

January 14, 2004

I try as best I can. I just had a three state trip, and was able to get most of the roadside caches, one TB hotel, but I did not have time for four neat caches that are near our Maryland Office. It makes the trips fun.

1.7k · January 14, 2004

Even if I don't have a the time, vehicle, clothing, ect to do a physical cache, in many of the larger cities I can always count on some virtuals that I can get to. Great way to see the local sites and still go back to the hotel without having to explain the mud stains on my slacks. Also look for webcam caches.

January 14, 2004

Always have made time to geocache on business trips. There is not much to do other than hang out at the hotel. Unlimited miles on the rental car make transportation no problem. The client has even cooperated a little: giving an evening or two to myself, letting leave a little early from the day's agenda, easiest routes to the cache area.

G

January 15, 2004

Geocaching has become an integral part of by business trips. It's allowed me to find caches in Denver, Boulder, Chicago, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, and Vatican City. I'm headed back to Europe next week and plan on logging caches from Germany, France, and Spain. I'm just pissed that my trip to Sweden in March just got cancelled. And to think my wife thinks I'm obsessive. :lol: It's going to be a good year!

9.4k · January 15, 2004

Geocaching has become an integral part of by business trips. It's allowed me to find caches in Denver, Boulder, Chicago, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, and Vatican City. I'm headed back to Europe next week and plan on logging caches from Germany, France, and Spain. I'm just pissed that my trip to Sweden in March just got cancelled. And to think my wife thinks I'm obsessive. It's going to be a good year!

I need to get into your line of work!

1k · January 15, 2004

...I just wanted to see how many others take a little time to go out when on a business trips.

I prefer to think of them as all-expenses-paid geocaching trips during which I am obligated to conduct a little business. Seems like a fair trade to me. :lol:

January 15, 2004

I always carry the GPS. There is even a cache at O'Hare! I schedule meetings around caching out of town. People tell me to get over it. ____ them!

January 15, 2004

I'd like to know how you manage to cache in the dark in an unfamiliar city. Its hard enough in the uk, in the day, working out where to park in the day and then scrambling through fields and parks without falling over. Would hate to do it at night.

January 15, 2004

Well I consider myself a lucky person indeed, I travel quite a bit for work

and can stay at a area for months at a time. I've introduced several coworkers to the sport and try to cache local areas and find out about the area. I consider it a job benefit.

January 16, 2004

turned out yesterday that the new cacher in my area, who had visited my cache, was sitting opposite my desk in the office! we found out when I took out a travel bug to clean it, someone else asked me what I was doing and they said "I know what he's doing - we've got some"...and that was the end of any work for an hour and a half as we demonstrated caching and the finds!

3.5k · January 16, 2004

The people I travel with on business trips have had to learn to live with the fact that we WILL find a couple of caches on the trip. Some of them really get into it, others seem to put up with it with a nice, quiet resolve. Probalby just glad that I'm not draggin' them off to some strip club. :unsure:

Bret

January 16, 2004

I haven't been on an out of town business trip for several years due to budget cuts, but I have been to quite a few out of the office meetings in the tri-state area.

I always manage to find time for a few stops on the way to or from the meetings for a quick hit (hmm - business meeting - muddy shoes - wonder where he's been?)

I've also been known to make a few detours when traveling between meetings and during lunch.

-PD

4.2k · January 16, 2004

I haven't traveled since getting back to work a few months ago, but plan on being is Seattle before the end of the month.

Will have to grab a few instead of sitting in the hotel room (yawn).I have a client that really enjoys hiking so maybe I'll try to bring him over to the dark side :unsure:

January 17, 2004

Work ? What's work ?

January 17, 2004

Who has time to work?

I travel about 70% of the time and the gps is always with me as well as PQ's for the areas I am going to be in, just in case I get some free time.

2k · January 17, 2004

I'm about a 90% traveler. I am approaching my 2nd million miles on an airline, so yes absolutely. This week in Nebraska, next week in Washington state and the following week in Kansas. I even find time to get some work done in between times.

:lol:

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