Geocaching is fun! :-)

Well, it has happened.  Finally Stacy and I have found a hobby that both of us can get involved in and taps into both of our talents and interests.  It is called Geocaching.  Basically there are people who have hidden things out in the world and have place the GPS coordinates on a website for people to look at and use to find the hidden items.

Now, I will explain it a little more. Things that people hide are called Caches.  There are mini, small medium and large caches. Mini caches are very small (of course) and usually just have a piece of paper for people to sign when they find the cache.  Large caches can range from tupperware to military ammunition boxes. In these boxes people have found toys, money, car keys and more, as well as small notebooks for the finder to sign and sometimes even a camera to take a picture of yourself. The theory with the larger caches is that you take something and put something back of equal or more value. What happens when you find a plane ticket I don’t know. Doubt that would happen now-a-days anyway.

Stacy and I started this last weekend and have already found 8 different caches in the Ridgeland area. In one cache we found a travel slug. The slug has a tracking number that you put into a specific website and allows the item to be tracked.  This coming weekend Stacy and I will take the slug and place it in a cache in Hattiesburg, MS for someone else to find.

We will keep you in the loop on the things we find.