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Conclusion
If you’re often hit with the sudden urge to cache but don’t carry your standard GPS with you all the time, then this is a great solution. But other then the cool factor, it’s just not all that exciting. Perhaps after a few updates it will be more indespensible.
Some of you may remember that last year I was all into SwiftWXweather software. As it turned out the tropical hurricane season was pretty much a bust and at least temporarily other activities took the place of my arm-chair weather forcasting.
But now that winter is upon us I’m back in the saddle! My $14.50/month subscription has been reactivated and I’m running SwiftFX again! This year it’s even more exciting than ever because I’ve added a mobile broadband card with integrated GPS to my rig and SwiftWX supports real time position tracking while I’m on the move. Yea that features is a bit more useful for the tornado chasers out there but you have to admit it’s a significant cool factor!
So expect my weather blogging to increase again as well as a possible ad hoc podcast from the road. I’ve been peeking at TalkShoeand my brain has been working overtime with the possibility of a live, on the road podcast. (hint hint - you might want to create a listener account for yourself!)
With such a cute name George Curious, how could I resest hunting this cache down!
Well, after watching this video you’ll agree that maybe I should have done this one on a different day. I actually picked this cache because it had pretty much guaranteed me a nice 3 mile hike and excercise is certainly something I can use!
It started off very well on our Rail to Trails network and was only about a thenth of a mile off the main trail, it should have been reasonably easy.
Not even half way up though I realized I didn’t have my cell phone with me anymore. I know I left a twitter message when I started but couldn’t remember if that was from the car or en route. The more I walked the more I belived it fell out of my pocket and that pretty much occupied my mind.
When I got to the location it was very uncomfortable. The nice spring I was looking for had apparantly turned into a tick infested pool of stagnent water. I looked but honestly between being bummed about my phone and being eaten alive by who knows what, my heart just wasn’t into it. So I wrapped up and headed back to the car hoping to find my phone along the way.. which I didn’t
When I got home my house phone was ringing.. caller ID said it was me!!! “Hello? You found my phone!!!!?” Turns out a homeless man was on the trail with his bicycle travelling back to the homeless shelter when he found my phone. I was saavy enough to look at the address book and call the entry labeled “home” and ta da!!!! So I drove to the shelter to retrieve my phone and give him a nice little reward which I think he really appreciated.
Looks like a little buddhism at work here, turning the poison of an uncomfortable treck through the woods into medicine by exchange goodwill with someone less fortunate. NMRK
What a beautiful day for geocaching, but let me tell you it didn’t start off so well. Eager to hit the road and made a quick dash to pick up Dan and we proceeded to use a strip mall parking lot as a staging area to load up on fresh batteries and get all our coordinates programmed. So as I put batteries in my 10-year old GPS unit I notice they weren’t quite snug. Now this is a problem I’ve had with it for a while now and if the battery isn’t tight it would shut itself off. So as I’ve done countless times before I reformed the retainer clip that holds the batteries. Well.. It was reformed just one to many times and it busted.
Some of you may remember that last year I was all into 
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