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Geocaching is a real-world outdoor treasure hunting game. Players try to locate hidden containers called geocaches, using GPS-enabled devices and then share their experiences online.
Geocaches contain a log book that you sign and if you see a treasure that you like, you take it and leave another in it's place! When you go home, you log your experience on the geocaching website.
We visited 13 sites and were successful in finding 11 of the geocaches today. We started geocaching in 2004. We have even set out a few of our own caches for others to find (we are the_red_haerings). When we first started, there were very few caches to be found. Now they are everywhere. It would have taken us days to find 11 caches when we first started!
One of our funnest caches was when we went to Jamaica. We had a driver take us to the site and we told him we were looking for a hidden treasure! He was all excited and asked if we would all be rich! We had him hold one of the GPS's and when we found it, he thought that was so cool! He laughed so hard! He scored a smiley bendy doll that he put up by his rear view mirror.
We have made several trips from Reno to Las Vegas and the geocaches have been great fun and much needed leg stretches!
The grandkids love going out looking for these treasures. My oldest grandson scored a fishing pole on one trip!
We have a lot of good memories with geocaching. It had been a while since we have been out caching, and today was a great day to cache!
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