Need a High Tech Passtime? Try Geocaching!

"What do you do with all that time?"

It’s a question fulltimers often hear from friends and relatives unfamiliar with the lifestyle. Aside of eating, sleeping, and doing a lot of things that root-bound folks do, RVers also like to have fun. Card games, horse shoe tossing, visiting, knitting, the list goes on. But a pastime that seems to go hand-in-hand with RV travel is that techno-game known as geocaching ("gee-o-cashing").

It’s a high-tech game of hide and seek, but rather than hiding yourself, or seeking someone, you’re actually seeking something. Someone hides a cache somewhere on the planet, and then giving you a few clues and some geographic coordinates, you go find it. What makes the whole thing work is internet computer access and a global positioning satellite (GPS) receiver. It’s a game that involves your mind and reasoning, and in many cases, gives you a good physical workout.

You’ll find an excellent article on the sport on the DesertUSA website.

Photo by Dave Wild; may be reproduced only with credit to the photographer.