Richard’s Ramblings

It’s been almost eighteen months since I’ve seriously geocached, although surprisingly I am still ranked in the top 1000 of all cachers worldwide (#991 as of last week). The main reasons I put the “sport” on hold all centered around the local community; the mega-cachers were arrogant about their influence in the game, the quality [...]

Last night just before midnight, as I neared the end of a two-year-long journey, I found myself racing down a residential street in frustration, heading towards yet another park. Three simple questions arise from that statement: What journey? What the heck was I doing out there around midnight? Why the frustration?
Just over two years ago, [...]

Packing for trips is much more of a pain than it used to be.
Now-a-days, I’ve got to make sure the GPS has fresh batteries and a fresh set of 900 waypoints loaded up; a cigarette lighter adapter for using the GPS in the rental car; the same waypoints loaded up into the charged-up Palm Pilot, [...]

I spied this picture on the geo-forums today and noticed that many people had added their own explanations. The best follow:

“I thought The Lady of the Lake was supposed to hand out swords.”
“I’m going to definitely email the owner of this cache and have the $$@*(*&* difficulty changed!”
“Let’s see, was that NAD 27 or WGS [...]

I spent some time today reading through logs that people had written long ago about caches that I’ve recently found that I thought were either particularly difficult to find or somehow interesting or creative. The best so far was not actually a log on the geocaching website, but rather the full story behind a successful [...]