My son needed to be at a playfellow this afternoon and it was thus an ideal moment to making a little tour. Again, the girls weren’t very keen to join me in de the cold, so I was on my own. I decided to map a route which I could do within the 3 hours I had available. Read more…
It’s official: a Palm Z22 sucks when it comes to complete paperless caching. It’s ok for what cachemate covers, but when it comes to paperless spoilers, it’s pretty useless. I was doing the “De andere Bron” GCK1HD multicache and everything went smoothly on this nice walk. That was until it was time to discover the stash itself. I had a bit of deviation in the wood and thus I needed to rely on the spoiler. As you can see below, there a lot of trees on the picture. Read more…
It has been a week full of pottering around. As mentioned in a previous blog, I started with paperless caching. I finally got used of this (somewhat tedious, compared to simply printing out stuff) way of working, so I though it would be time to do put the spoiler pics on my Z22 too.
This continuation of freezing temperatures and snow is not my cup of tea. The temperatures didn’t exceed freezing point for more than 15 days now. Maybe I wasn’t that weather conscious before, but I can’t remember that it has been so cold for quite a long time now. It’s about time that this comes to an end and more reasonable temperatures are in place.
Everything seems to turn out well geocaching wise. The time that I need in order to find is getting shorter and shorter. Only special ones like “Foute vrucht of…foute boom ? #3″ GC17524 needed some extra info from the author. It is a difficult one where a micro is cleverly hidden in a wood, with a lot of DNFs as result. That’s the nice thing about geocaching. At one side you’ve caches like this and at the other side you’ve caches like “Rondje Tielt-Winge – 2 : Kabouterbos” GC15DFH which are very child friendly or give you beautiful sights like “Holle Wegen 2″ GC19Q2D or “Het molentje” GCGAZC with a very original container. The region where I live gives you a lot of variations due to the diverse landscape. Read more…
After the past festivities, it’s time to get back to business. That is off course geocaching business. On my last X-mas vacation day, I needed to drop off the music keyboard my son borrowed from a friend/colleague of mine. As always, I try to combine this with some stash hunting. Nobody else of the family wanted to join me, so I’ve put 8 caches on list. It’s kind of a loop that I made on the south of the Belgian province of Limburg, which is a very nice region. Today was rather peaceful: I encountered only one muggle. These are 8 cashes I’ve found in 2 hours time, which I think is rather fast. Maybe it’s because 6 of them make part of the “Rondje Zuid Limburg”, a 10 cache tour around the most beautiful spots in that region and thus no work for me to find out what the best way to combine was.
Today is the last day of the year. A remarkable year with the last 4 months – although it started for real in October – into geocaching with 62 finds. It wasn’t always easy or pleasant. My inexperience, the weather and a couple of accidents casted sometimes a shadow over the geocaching party. I still like it though and I have even tangible plans for 2 additional caches of my own. Read more…
I went yesterday to Antwerp in order to do some shopping for all my GPS gear. My car navigation unit had some troubles after an update to the Navteq Q4/2008 maps. The installation process told that it couldn’t on the standard 2 Gb SD card. A second try (without deleting anything) worked but the side effect was that the installation process wiped al my bookmarked addresses. Contacting Navigon didn’t reveal much, which seems to be common for this manufacturer. Read more…
Or better said, I’m as blind as a mole as we tend to say in Flanders. You will understand in the next paragraph what I’m talking about. Read more…
In case you didn’t notice yet: I’m a big fan of the geocaches by Freggie. He manages to let people discover my home town in a pleasant way without making things to difficult in order to let one enjoy the environment. Today I tackled the last one: Wijds Lubbeek – Multi GC1F7GP. Since it was a rather long multi, the girls wanted to stay home and thus it became a father – son trip. Read more…
