A New Hobby

Our family found a fun new hobby: Geocaching. A friend of ours, Raine Lightner, works for a geocaching company called Groundspeak out in Seattle, Washington and he was telling us about it. We had never heard of geocaching, but the more he told us the more fun it sounded.

Basically, it's a treasure hunt with the help of a hand-held GPS. You find coordinates on websites (like Groundspeak) of where the locations of the treasure (called a cache) is and enter those coordinates into your GPS.

I have yet to find one, but my GPS is in the mail and we are excited to going on some adventures with the kids to find some caches. I wanted to start this blog to keep track of the caches we find together as a family. On Groundspeak, there are 12 caches registered within just 1 mile of our house, 129 of them within 5 miles and over 550 within a 10 mile radius. We could stay within walking distance of our house and still never find them all.

Our Megellan Explorist 600 should be here in the next couple days and I look forward to posting pictures of us on our hikes and adventures.

Happy hunting.