If you like the outdoors, then you will love geocaching. It is a pretty cool concept. Basically people hide little packages off in the woods and record the GPS coordinates; then they go onto the geocaching website and post the location. Once you go to the website and get the coordinates you just go out into the woods and try to find it. Once you find it, write a note in the log, put something in the cache and take something out of it. For a more detailed description go see their site.
Another thing you can do is launch a
travel bug. You put
something in the cache that has a special dog tag on it. Other people pick
it up and place it in another cache; the website tracks the item so you can see
where it has been. Right now I have one travel bug wandering around the
world. I attached a die-cast Space Shuttle to it and named it
"Shuttle
Columbia" in honor of the Shuttle (and crew) that was lost in 2003. I
launched him in Maryland but he has been on the west coast since April. He
has traveled a total of about
3213.8 miles as of 12/11/04.
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