FOUND IT !!!

If you look over to the side you will see a link of something we love to do. It is called Geocaching (sounds like cashing).

This hobby requires you to have GPS system (our's cost $90), and then go to www.geocaching.com (small $3/mth fee) and put in your zip code. This will pull up hidden "treasures" around. Now these treasures are a odd sort of thing, not what you might think. Some can be as simple as a Altoids tin with a "log sheet" inside. Others can be as large as ..well who knows.

The object is to put the coordinates into your GPS and go find it. Once you find it inside there is a "log" that you sign. If the "container" is big enough then you can put a "trinket" inside for others to trade or just have fun looking at. Then you go back home and log onto the website and log that you found it.

These "caches" are NOT out in the open, but hidden. Sometimes you have to have "stealth" like attributes so that others (muggles) won't take it and spoil the fun.

We have been doing this for about 7 months and have found over 230 of them, and have not even tapped into what is out there.

Notice in the pictures the "containers" that we find. Some places are out in the boonies, while others might even be in a parking lot of a grocery store. The kids love doing this and run out of the van to the location where they think it may be.

The only problem is that they sometimes get to excited and yell out...."FOUND IT", now in most cases that is OK, but if you have other people around that don't know what you are doing, then the "hide' might be in jeopardy.

You can even "hide" some of your own caches if you feel so inclined. We currently have 2 out there. One of them has some really great reviews posted.

So if you would like to have some cheap fun then try this out. If you want to test it out let us know and we would love to take you out for a day of caching. You can find us on the above website under GeoRioux.