Anniversary Gift? Would You Believe A Hobby?

[Elspode]

So...the wife and I are out having our anniversary dinner (a day after Samhain...we're busy witches), and she decides to tell me what she wants to get me for our anniversary. Now, this is something I had asked for a couple of years back, but she was sort of hesitant to get me one...until now.

It seems she was talking to a friend who told her all about the wonderful world of Geocaching. Simply put, Geocaching is a GPS-based version of Letterboxing, something that has been done as a sideline of hiking and orienteering for years. People fill a suitable container (Tupperware works very well) with a logbook, pencil/pen, and various and sundry items of their choosing, then post the coordinates on www.geocaching.com . Other people find the coordinates, d/l them into their GPS's, and strike out in search of the various caches.

When you find them, you take something out and put something back in, write on the logbook, then log your find online.

So, my gift was a Garmin ETrex Legend GPS, made right here in the KC area. Small and amazingly useful, I am in total love with this device, the Geocaching pasttime (did our first two yesterday), and, of course, the great woman who put all this together for us to do as a couple.

http://www.garmin.com/products/etrexLegend/

Now...anyone got any Garmin Mapsource Disks hanging around? These buggers are expensive as hell, but really crucial to getting the most out of this GPS unit.