Got back yesterday from our romantic interlude in the Peak District. It was our 25th wedding anniversary on Wednesday and we also reached 2000 caches.
After our celebrations on the 30th we drove up to Glossop on the Sunday, picking up a couple of caches or so on the way. We stayed at a lovely little cottage on the outskirts of Glossop within walking distance of the Snake Pass.
Most mornings, I let Sue have a lie in whilst I nipped out and bagged a few local caches before returning to our love nest for breakfast. We'd probably pick up a few more caches while out and about in the day. We didn't go cacheing mad but managed 58 finds during the week.
Sue, bless her, bought me an anniversary present - a Garmin Oregon 200. The geocaching features are very good so I've been having a little play with my new toy. Still early days but I've splashed out and got some topo maps for the unit which look very snazzy. The maps are better than Memory Map in one way and that is that the Oregon can navigate to any waymark, geocache or POI (of which there are thousands). It's not just a point on top of a graphic, like MM, but the unit "knows" what all the bits of the map are.
I'll post a blog about it when I've had a bit more time using it.
I spent an hour or so, last night, logging all the finds. I had logged around 20 caches before I realised that I'd got the wrong dates!!!
Finally, talking of technology, I've ditched Vista (it is crap, after all) and upgraded to XP Pro. Luckily the new laptop came with a driver disk and everything works - and SO MUCH faster.
After our celebrations on the 30th we drove up to Glossop on the Sunday, picking up a couple of caches or so on the way. We stayed at a lovely little cottage on the outskirts of Glossop within walking distance of the Snake Pass.
Most mornings, I let Sue have a lie in whilst I nipped out and bagged a few local caches before returning to our love nest for breakfast. We'd probably pick up a few more caches while out and about in the day. We didn't go cacheing mad but managed 58 finds during the week.
Sue, bless her, bought me an anniversary present - a Garmin Oregon 200. The geocaching features are very good so I've been having a little play with my new toy. Still early days but I've splashed out and got some topo maps for the unit which look very snazzy. The maps are better than Memory Map in one way and that is that the Oregon can navigate to any waymark, geocache or POI (of which there are thousands). It's not just a point on top of a graphic, like MM, but the unit "knows" what all the bits of the map are.I'll post a blog about it when I've had a bit more time using it.
I spent an hour or so, last night, logging all the finds. I had logged around 20 caches before I realised that I'd got the wrong dates!!!
Finally, talking of technology, I've ditched Vista (it is crap, after all) and upgraded to XP Pro. Luckily the new laptop came with a driver disk and everything works - and SO MUCH faster.
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