The Search Jaunt

Oregon 450t bis

searchjaunt — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:03:35 +0000

In my previous blog, I’ve unboxed my new Orgeon 450t. Now I’m going into the filed with it. But before one can do that, one needs to feed the GPSr with geocaching data. I do this with GSAK and the Garmin Colorado/Oregon Export Macro. I was rather happy when the specs of the 450t mentions that [...]

Oregon 450t

searchjaunt — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:25:00 +0000

I’ve been doing two cache trips so far with my new 450t and here are some first impressions. As a reminder, I’ve bought the 450t – as replacement for my 60cx – for a couple of reasons: it sounds silly, but the lack of a compass in the 60cx resulted in the fact that one needed always [...]

The needle

searchjaunt — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:24:50 +0000

Geocaching is sometimes searching for a needle. Well I found it and got trough the eye of it. I must have some guardian angel somewhere, since I’m still able to blog. But it could end up otherwise. It all started yesterday morning, when I needed to bring my daughter and her friend to a birthday party. Since [...]

Divide and rule

searchjaunt — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:32:05 +0000

There is some agitation in the geocaching communities in the Low Countries for some while now. One is questioning the use of the ‘official’ sites these days. It looks like that one is a bit stuck in the like knows like of ‘the good old days’ where the number of the geocachers annex caches were limited. [...]

Sticky matters

searchjaunt — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:57:06 +0000

I just finished another phase of my little project – I forgot to mention in my previous post – in redecorating the house: wallpapering the little room. Despite being a little room, it’s a pain to redecorate it -whether it’s with paint or wallpaper – with all the little corners, recesses and sanitary fittings. That makes [...]

No Power

searchjaunt — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:04:50 +0000

Just when I realized that I was too busy with this little project of mine and I hadn’t written a blog yet, there was a power outage. It lasted between 7:30PM and 22:00PM and didn’t fancy to sit behind the keyboard after that. But no despair, I have a whole of holiday in order to entertain [...]

Barrels of creativity

searchjaunt — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:30:11 +0000

Yesterday I’ve found 3 caches which are creative in their own specific way, all within the ‘Cache Listing Requirements and Guidelines’. For the record, I wouldn’t have any problems with the caches mentioned in my previous blog if they didn’t trample the mentioned guidelines. There are certainly caches in my founds list where the reason for [...]

Breaking your own rules

searchjaunt — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:24:43 +0000

One seems to hold pork barrel politics when it comes to following their own rules. When people having difficulties having their genuine caches approved, others don’t seem to no troubles in having outrageous caches approved. You probably know which caches I’m talking about: International Space Station by Richard Garriott (GC1BE91) Rainbow Hydrothermal Vents by Lord British (GCG822) Despite the [...]

Ice, Ice Baby

searchjaunt — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:00:04 +0000

This winter had of influence on my geocaching experience. Off course there is the snow, which hamper / prevents searching caching. Headhardhat share his experiences in his latest GeoSnippits video: But it doesn’t stop when the snow is gone. Like I experienced with Bij ons in de Jordaan by Tom Pouce (GCP03P), dirt roads are transformed in [...]

Certainly no sigar

searchjaunt — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:45:00 +0000

After the layout update debacle of Jan 12th and an intermediate update, it’s time to have look on how things stand now. Honesty compels me to admit that I was surprised to see that Groundspeak recognized that the thing they’ve launched a fortnight ago wasn’t exactly a hit number. I was also pleasantly that the gc.com [...]

ET phone home

searchjaunt — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:11:57 +0000

Last Sunday, I attended the ET Event organized by Prunie. My attendance hanged by a thread since I had a bad cold (the second one this year) since the Friday before and it hurt when I needed to rise early for the event. I survived the day, but got faced with the consequences on Monday. [...]

Braintwister

searchjaunt — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:24:42 +0000

I created yesterday yet another mystery cache. Unlike previous mystery caches, this promises to be a real braintwister. My previous mystery caches have always some kind of twist in them and are as such really easy to solve when you find the twist. This time, there is no twist at all, but – as always – [...]

Face-lift going down

searchjaunt — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:13:11 +0000

You might have noticed that the layout of GC.com has been changed. I’m wondering if that was a good idea. I kept rubbing my eyes, but that didn’t seem to help. I couldn’t believe my eyes. It has been a while that I’ve seen such a result. And I don’t mean this in a positive way. [...]

Let the race begin

searchjaunt — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:50:12 +0000

Against all intentions, I have bought new travel bugs and entered them in two separate TB races. The first is the Lady Bee. It’s a cuddly/rattle toy my two kids played with in bygone times. It’s a bee at one side and a ladybird at the other side. It’s a contestant in the second edition of [...]

500

searchjaunt — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:54:55 +0000

Yesterday, I found cache #500 and still 5025 to go in Belgium I intended to reach that number last week, but Freggie came with a better idea. So I decided to pick out some special caches by some friends of mine. The first six is the new series by Vuurvos. Vuurvos understands the art of putting [...]

It’s a wrap

searchjaunt — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:34:59 +0000

Now that the year is nearly at its end, a quick overview of the things done last fortnight. Last week I needed to be in Alken for a duplicate of my license plate. It was seriously damaged due to the accident somewhat a month ago. Traditionally, I try to take the change to tackle some caches [...]

Stollen identity

searchjaunt — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:31:35 +0000

It’s that time of the year again, where there are more important things, and one can forget about geocaching, geeky stuff and other frustrations. So, this is not going to be a geocaching nor Grumpy grievances. Instead I want to share a recipe with you. It’s a more traditional one: Christmas stollen. Don’t despair, it isn’t [...]

You’ve got mail

searchjaunt — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:00:59 +0000

I’ve added an extra notification service to this blog. Until now, the way to see if there was a blog added were: Following me on Twitter or Facebook Subscribe to the RSS feed Visit the blog regularly For some people, the latter was – due to several reasons – the only option. Despite the fact that this is good for [...]

Scaredy-cat

searchjaunt — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:15:59 +0000

Sometimes the anxiety takes over the rational and one needs to recede from things. This happened with the cache we’ve done last WE: Cave Cache Kanne by Joshabets (GC1TPD8). The interest was awakened by video clips like this: Despite my (selective) fear of heights, I’ve put this one on my to do list and found Freggie and [...]

Earth matters

searchjaunt — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:33:56 +0000

The submission process for earth caches has changed from today on and will be done directly in the gc.com site. Additional rules will consequently apply and I wonder if that’s a good thing or not. It bears mainly upon the proximity and vacation cache rules. The main argument for the latter – where one isn’t allowed [...]