November 08 2008

GeoCaching Saturday

So as we got up this morning and realized that the trees have all changed colors, some of our plants are dying from the cold… and we still don’t know our way around very well after having been here for 3 months now… We decided it was time to go and do some GeoCaching! Now I have been using a Garmin hand held just like the guys over at GeoTeaming.com told me to when I got started in the game. Now in hindsight - I wish I would have gone a bit more high tech (being that I’m a puter geek an all).

So before we set out to go this morning I realized I needed to plug the ‘ol iPhone in for a charge if we were going to be out of the house for a bit. Then it hit me… I wonder if there’s an app @ the app store for geocaching? 1 Googly woogly later and I’m downloading a $9.99 app (the good ones usually require you to buy them) and I must say at under 10 bucks - turning my phone into a $300 GPS tracking device = BRILLIANT!

Oh yeah… And sorry first gen’ers this won’t work on your iphone… just the new ones! I’m pretty excited to see this thing in action… we’ll still bring the other GPS (since this hunt is in beta) and @mrsneo can run that one… Will be nice to see which gets a better signal and which gets us closer to the prize at the end of the trail!