Glad to see that you had a good first experience. I tend to like the caches that are more remote and require a good hike to get to. Enjoy your new GPS, and geocaching. It is a great activity.

I can understand why you would, but I am tied to an 18 wheeler and have a bum hip so I'll just have to find them where I can.

Thanks.

It sounds like fun. I would like to get a GPS so I could try it. I'll add it to the list of future purchases. My friend goes with her family and it seems like an activity that my boys would enjoy. I think it would be even more fun for you since you are all over the country and can look for them in many different places.

Yeah that's one reason it appeals to me. I want to see how many states I can find them in.

I really miss going. We haven't had the time or the energy lately.

Last month I finally let go of some travel bugs that I had in my posession for a year. We got them and then found out my wife was pregnant for triplets. I finally just went for a cache that was close to my office on my lunch break.

There are nine caches (that I haven't found) in walking distance from my office. They are really hard to do at lunch with all of the muggles around and the tall bulidings make getting a signal almost impossible.

I guess the bent will be getting a GPS mount.

with all of the muggles around

Were any of them related to Harry Potter?

I think that is neat as well.  I might get a GPS just to play some.  Good luck on your next hunt.

Yeah, too many muggles is why I couldn't get the one at the Cracker Barrel. I do plan to mount a weatherproof GPS on the bent at some point.

I'm going to be getting some travel bugs and maybe some GeoTrucker geocoins some time soon.

You should, it's fun. Everyone likes a treasure hunt. I found a site called GeoTruckers that lists truck friendly cache locations (ones that can be got to or near in a big rig). It seems there are a lot of them in rest areas around the country.

So that's what Geocaching is. I was invited to a family reunion and it mentioned Geocaching, and I was very confused. Now I am less so! But I don't have a GPS, so.

Good job being the first to find something!

I'm pretty cheap. I refused to buy the $30 mount to put my GPS on my bike. I used one of the refectors with an adjustable mount and broke off the reflective part. I made a mount out of wood with my scroll saw and dremel and attached it to the reflector mount. I put the GPS on it with industrial velcro.

Shortly after I made it, someone stole my bike and I haven't made another one yet.

The Garmin eTrex Legend is weatherproof and pretty acurate. You can usually find it on sale for $100.

Ive been a member of geocaching.com for a while. Although I don't have a GPS. I want to get one though to mount onto the bike...but the cost is the main thing stopping us. I see you got the Iway. Ive heard of some issues with that particular series (iway in general I think)...any problems yet?

Thanks. It's become quite popular around the world.

I know how ya feel about the stolen bike. Been there, done that.

I'm far too short on spare time to make a mount to fit the bent. Easier to just buy one.

The Legend is what I was considering, although the Vista looks pretty sweet.

The iWay is a decent GPS. I've been using it for a couple of weeks now and it does a good job. I ordered the Nuvi 350 (should arrive tomorrow) basically because it does the routing much faster than the iWay and has more sensitive electronics. There are actually a couple of things that the iWay does that the Nuvi doesn't.

Neither of them are really ideal for geocaching though as they are primarily automotive navigation devices. For geocaching something like the Garmin Legend is actually more handy, not to mention weather proof.

That sounds like a lot of fun! Thx for keeping people like me ('greenhorns') in the know! Good luck on the rest of your hunt!