October 19, 2009
Oh My Darling Clemmonses
This past weekend, we had the great joy of seeing some friends from Texas. David and Stephanie Clemmons, who have this very infrequently updated blog, are in Orlando this week introducing Parker and Caroline to the wonders of Disney World. To our utter delight, they flew in a day early to spend time with us. Not only did we get to just enjoy one another's company, but they met some of our friends here, Stephanie experienced Publix for the first time ever, and they introduced us to Geocaching.
I'm no expert at geocaching, but I'll do my best to provide a brief primer. Normal, everyday people put together fairly weather-tight little treasure parcels and cleverly hide them in remote and even frequented areas. They then post the coordinates of the cache on a web site, which allows people to use a GPS and possibly some hints to locate the cache. Inside is a logbook to sign, maybe some trinkets to trade, and perhaps even a travel bug that would like to make its way to another cache somewhere. After a treasure hunter finds a cache and signs the logbook, he or she then goes back to the web site and makes note of the find.
On Saturday afternoon, we walked to two nearby caches, which Keith found. Ta-da! (The photo is of Steph returning the logbook to the first cache before Parker returned it to its hiding place.) Then on Sunday morning, as we were headed to Disney, we decided to scout out another nearby cache. Stephanie found it. I didn't find a geocache, but I did stumble upon another, more low-tech treasure known as a Letterbox. Ta-da!
On the way home from Disney, Keith was playing with the Geocaching iPhone app (yes, there's an app for that) and said, "There's a cache just up here on the right." So we pulled into a city park and traipsed through the woods to find our first solo cache. Ta-da!
Who knew there was so much cheap fun to be had so close to home?
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