Cool Caches

I feel the need to state more about how cool geocaching is. Here's the deal. You go to the geocaching website. You type in your zip code, and it pulls up a list of caches in your area. You can find them anywhere, worldwide. Pull up the page for the cache, dowload the coordinates, and away you go. It isn't as easy as it sounds. If you're lucky you might get parking coordinates along with coordinates of the actual cache, but if not you might have to figure out where to park in order to get to the cache. Which again is more challenging than it sounds, especially if you are completely unfamiliar with the area. Kerry and I visited our friend Sona in Pittsburgh, and took off to do some geocaching while we were there. She declined to come with us. It could be that she thought it was stupid, or it could be because she's a new mom and prefered to stay home with Griffin - the cutest kid EVER. Anyway, Kerry and I had no point of reference for any of the cache sites - only the caches I had printed out and downloaded in to my gps before I arrived in Pittsburgh. So Gordie was our only guide. The one at Peters Lake was great. Took us around the bog end of the lake on a small deer trail, and wound around to a specific pine tree. There was even a sci-fi book in that particular cache. The Boyce Wetlands provided us with a favorite picture. A No Parking sign in the middle of a wetland. Duh. Maybe it was put there specifically for cachers? Permission has to be obtained for anyone to place a cache on State Park property, and you'd be suprised at the amount and the location of caches - there could be one in your own neighborhood, and you don't even know it. Secret Society. James Bond.