Bernhard Seefeld's Blog

geocaching

Gregor mentions geocaching, which sounds like great fun. People all over the world hide things and you can try to find them and start creating new caches yourself. Most contain some items like books, CDs, card games, etc. and when you find a cache you can take things out of them and put new things into them and leave a note on the geocaching website. And in many cases the true treasure is the place surrounding the cache; I guess that many geocachers point others to their favourite places like that.

The whole thing is very GPS oriented, which kind of puzzles me - I feel this takes half the fun out of it (like computerized telescopes), but maybe go-fifty-step-to-the-big-tree-and-turn-left description are not really practical :) So I will have to ask someone for a GPS device to try it myself as I postpone the purchase of that gadget until I figure out how I want to combine GPS with Moblogging (link via Bitflux).

Of course, geocaching would be even more interesting if it would be more blog-enabled (e.g. by supporting trackback).