Well, we bought a Dakota 20 and practiced with it before heading over the pond. Worked great in Madtown, but over here in Europe it won’t acquire a satellite! Pretty frustrating. On the other hand, our smartphones have worked fine…as long as they are connected to a wireless network (in airplane mode, so independent of phone service). So, we can look up caches while in the hotel, but once in the field, it is back to maps and geosense! We Keep missing TBs in caches by hours, so looks like we will be returning empty handed. Boo.
Interesting to note that the majority of caches that we have seen around here are puzzle or multi caches. We have enough trouble with the ones at home in English! And the multis here are typically at least 10 stages long! They’re serious about their geocaching over the pond!
