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A five day week is going to seem incredibly long now, and here it is staring me in the face.
Happily, the week after that has only two work days, because I'll be attending a weaving workshop on the other three.
Unhappily, that means I have to get the workshop loom warped for the project I'll be doing, which in turn means finishing the warp that's already on there. Not enough hours... I have to sleep too.
Having looked at the information for some of the nearby geocaches, I begin to wonder how much of the challenge is finding a cache and how much is managing to open it, sign the log, seal it back up, and replace it without being obvious. There are two caches (GC1DAVM and GC1DAVT) right in the park surrounding the library. They would have to be pretty exposed. A third (GC1FBCA) is apparently at or very near the statue of a cow that graces Harvard's main intersection. That's even more exposed.Another (GC1EGHX) is apparently right alongside the road on my way to work, just 1.5 miles from home. From looking at the GPS map, I'm pretty sure I know the area in question and there are lots of possible hiding places there, but again it's exposed to passing road traffic all the time.
We have a couple of letterboxes hidden right in the library, but those work a little differently. At least in our case, it would be pretty easy to access one of them, enter the log, and return it to its place without attracting any attention.
The Geocaching web site and Garmin's own site are able to transfer cache coordinates directly to the GPS. However, that only works if you are running Windows 2000 or higher and Internet Explorer, apparently. Fortunately, it's easy enough to enter the location data manually. It consists only of a latitude and longitude, with a code name beginning with "GC" attached. I downloaded some this morning using Gary's Windows computer, but just now I entered several manually and it really took no longer. Of course you have to be careful about errors in entering the coordinates, but that's not too hard.
As soon as I get a lunch break where it isn't drizzling or a minus 40 wind chill, I'm going to have to go try to find one of these that are right near the library.
Happily, the week after that has only two work days, because I'll be attending a weaving workshop on the other three.
Unhappily, that means I have to get the workshop loom warped for the project I'll be doing, which in turn means finishing the warp that's already on there. Not enough hours... I have to sleep too.
Having looked at the information for some of the nearby geocaches, I begin to wonder how much of the challenge is finding a cache and how much is managing to open it, sign the log, seal it back up, and replace it without being obvious. There are two caches (GC1DAVM and GC1DAVT) right in the park surrounding the library. They would have to be pretty exposed. A third (GC1FBCA) is apparently at or very near the statue of a cow that graces Harvard's main intersection. That's even more exposed.Another (GC1EGHX) is apparently right alongside the road on my way to work, just 1.5 miles from home. From looking at the GPS map, I'm pretty sure I know the area in question and there are lots of possible hiding places there, but again it's exposed to passing road traffic all the time.
We have a couple of letterboxes hidden right in the library, but those work a little differently. At least in our case, it would be pretty easy to access one of them, enter the log, and return it to its place without attracting any attention.
The Geocaching web site and Garmin's own site are able to transfer cache coordinates directly to the GPS. However, that only works if you are running Windows 2000 or higher and Internet Explorer, apparently. Fortunately, it's easy enough to enter the location data manually. It consists only of a latitude and longitude, with a code name beginning with "GC" attached. I downloaded some this morning using Gary's Windows computer, but just now I entered several manually and it really took no longer. Of course you have to be careful about errors in entering the coordinates, but that's not too hard.
As soon as I get a lunch break where it isn't drizzling or a minus 40 wind chill, I'm going to have to go try to find one of these that are right near the library.
