Garmin eTrex Vista CX Handheld GPS Navigator »
Recently, based on an article in the paper, our family decided to take another look at Geocaching. I had already decided that this would be one of those things that I pursued one day, but it was just "added to the list", and I figured that I would get to it when I could get to it. There was no date attached or anything. But with summer dragging on, and looking for something to fill the last couple weeks before school picks up, the article seemed to be almost an omen. So that meant that we needed the one essential ingredient for the task: A handheld GPS device.
In order to become a family who risks life and limb - or preferably, does not, we needed to be able to determine not only where we were, but where we wanted to go. Enter the GPS. Using coordinates that we could obtain at the Geocaching web site, we get a nice path to the destination. So it's fairly critical that we had one. You see, most caches aren't just laid out on the roadway for people to find - they are typically stored in tree stumps and under piles of rocks and things. So we started searching, so that we could go searching.
