The day before I left for China a friend of mine stopped by to see me and we took a friend of his to a park in Farmington to find a geocache. What is geocaching? It's a wold wide treasure hunt! By using any device with GPS and having the proper program loaded on (in his case it was an iPhone app) a person can find a hidden box or small container with things inside, a log book to sign and sometimes an item that needs to be taken to another cache. Watching this guy look for the cache was pretty entertaining and the thought came to my mind "This is something I want to get into." So now I've got an iPad with GPS and an app that will allow me to find geocaches worldwide. I told my girlfriend Maren about this game and she was totally stoked about doing it too. This last Monday night before a family BBQ we looked up a cache less than 1/4 mile from my house. We headed in that direction and spent 10 or 15 minutes trying to find it. The description wasn't very detailed but we knew what we were looking for was very small. I'm sure we looked pretty ridiculous to everyone passing by in their cars but we were having a great time being outside! We eventually found it in a very tricky spot. It was really small and the logbook was pretty hammered and I forgot to bring a pen to sign it but our first experience Geocaching together was a complete success! I can't wait to get out there and find another!
