gosh, there's 4 in my 5000 popn town!
I played Ingress for a while, but it requires a lot of time to upkeep and I just didn't want to do it after a while. My husband DarkKnight still plays, I think. Lately I've been helping people on the Find a Grave website, which feels a lot like geocaching because I am still getting lots of walking in, but I'm also searching for a specific headstone in a particular cemetery. However, I feel like it's doing something positive for someone else, so I get positive feelings more so than I did with geocaching.
That does sound pretty generous! This gives me even more reason to try find a grave. I wonder if this could be combined with geocaching or waymarking. Thanks for the info.
I think it absolutely could. When MrS and I were geocaching we tended to focus on caches that were highlighting local small historical locations. Markers, memorials, historic building etc. Sometimes there would be an actual cache or micro-cache (if it was allowed) - other times you went to a place and were given clues to find numbers, letters, words that were on the landmarks that would help you solve a puzzle - you would send the answer to the cache-owner to get "credit". It wasn't unusual for us to end up visiting a little, out-of-the-way old cemetery that we otherwise wouldn't have known existed - and learned a lot of local history in the process.
You say "were" geocaching. Do you not do it anymore?
I've never geocached, but have done BookCrossing and WheresGeorge. I think you could combine BookCrossing with geocaching, but the WheresGeorge guidelines frown on combining that with geocaching because the point is to log and track bills that are found in regular circulation, not in caches. I love when I find a bill marked "Where's George?" in "the wild!" I get so excited to see where it's been and how far it's traveled!
First day geocaching today! Found 2 of 3 (wondering if the third was affected by the floods here last month as no one has logged it since).
I had a search buddy too, the first time hanging out with this new friend (outside of business meetings). It was just a non-romantic girly hangout date, but I can see how this would be a wonderful romantic date activity.
I'm gonna get hooked on this
aroha nui
Evie
Actually haven't gone out in a few years. Other hobbies and (people) came along and life is BUSY. We have many and diverse interests - I tend to get "hooked" on something for a few years and enjoy it immensely and then get attracted to something else, sometimes I go back and sometimes I don't. When we lived in town, geocaching was a way to get out of the house, tramp around with the dog and get some nature. Then we moved out to the country...now other things fill that niche, so attention goes elsewhere.
(Coin collecting, scrapbooking, knitting/cross-stitch, metal-detecting, online MMORG, LibraryThing, BOOKS!, drum lessons, RockBand, community band, road trips, concerts, skiing/snowboarding, microbrews, pets - there are so many things to occupy one's time!)
I've never geocached, but have done BookCrossing and WheresGeorge. I think you could combine BookCrossing with geocaching, but the WheresGeorge guidelines frown on combining that with geocaching because the point is to log and track bills that are found in regular circulation, not in caches. I love when I find a bill marked "Where's George?" in "the wild!" I get so excited to see where it's been and how far it's traveled!