Well, we did it. My husband opened his GPSr christmas gift and inside I had, along with the GPSr, a map and list of 10 caches in our area, printouts of each cache, the FAQs of geocaching and benchmarks.
He was really excited over this gift and as I had hoped, he wanted to go out caching!
I had purchased 2 GPSr’s, a new Magellan Roadmate and a Magellan Explorist 100. The Roadmate was really off on coords, but the explorist was dead on. We roamed for a while before we discovered this, but once we decided that the Explorist would have better outdoor coords (off-roads) we found our VERY 1st Cache!
Actually the kids discovered it but we all got such a rush out of it. It was awesome and I know we are hooked now. The rest of the afternoon was spent looking for 3 others, we only found 2 more tho because the snow was a little deterrent for one. But my husband kept saying “we gotta hide one of our own, this is too cool!”
I think we even might come to the Meet N Greet at the Janboree! It would be great to meet people who have been doing this for a while and get some personal insights from “old-timers”.
Happy Caching!