GeoCaching - My newest thing to try

as you can probably tell, i am finally trying to start blogging again [thanks Lorian for the kick in the pants] and what better time than now while i am a proverbial leaf in the wind.

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So I've done what for me is a fair amount of travelling over the last year in a mix of business, family and tourist-mode trips. When i was in Miami late last year with my sis, we decided to rent a vehicle and it was the first time for us driving anywhere outside Barbados on our own so we borrowed a trusty little Garmin from my cuz and away we went. That in itself was an adventure as the battery died on us in one of our trips but we can talk about that later.

 Anyway, ever since then I've had an interest in GPS tech. i honestly think, as a small island guy, that GPS has to be the best thing ever invented short of the wheel. anyway, so as i was digging around recently i was looking for my own sat nav unit, then it morphed into looking for an app for my nexus devices [#teamandroid]. as the search continued i somehow landed on this Geo-caching stuff.

 i wont reinvent the wheel, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YTqitVK-Ts] that's the basis of what it is. so i decided to create an account and see if anyone had any caches anywhere around London. to my surprise, there was one on a walking route i use when i just want to get out the house from time to time. it was literally right there, well at least according to the map. In fact the amount of caches that popped up around me was a bit overwhelming. I'm sorry I didnt stumble across this earlier for a number of reasons, one of which is it's December and the temperatures aren't good for a West Indian to be rummaging around on the outdoors.

 So I've found what is going to be my first attempt to find and log a Geocache. will see how it goes tomorrow when the sun is out.




 Other useful stuff i found
- Maverick App
- GPS essentials app
- Geocaching intro app
- google maps [one of my favs]