The Search Jaunt

Sayōnara Greetings

searchjaunt — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 10:00:22 +0000

Let this be clear: I’m not starting to blog again. There is no reason for me to blog again since there isn’t much happened meanwhile anyway: I’ve found a couple of caches since then, with a personal day record of 106. The 1K barrier is coming nearer. I’m sure that some caches in would have [...]

This is it? Not!

searchjaunt — Sun, 09 May 2010 10:44:16 +0000

I’m wondering the point of all this and at the verge of chucking up all this. I had this feeling before. This kind of sectarianism is not my cup of tea. One seems to like or lump everything what Groundspeak has in store for their customers. I seem to be some kind of outcaste that [...]

Pickpocket

searchjaunt — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:40:08 +0000

In case you didn’t notice it. Groundspeak made some changes concerning Pocket Queries. In order to achieve that (and some other additions concerning the 10 years events) there was some miscommunicated outage of the servers. Apart from that, we got something one calls the PQ1K feature or pocket queries with 1000 caches in plain English. [...]

The Power of Coincidence

searchjaunt — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:00:45 +0000

I’ve never met so many people on a non event cache as yesterday. A lot of people seem to have had the same idea at the same time. But before that Dinti and I went some cache sweeping in the morning. The girls wanted to go for a swim and my son preferred to join [...]

Tweetle-do, Tweetle-don’t

searchjaunt — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:00:07 +0000

Groundspeak is showing again that it’s a money-grubber. What’s the case? The Dutch reviewer ‘Kruimeldief’ and the Dutch site globalcaching.nl have had a twitter channel where they put a notification when a new cache is published. The Dutch reviewer did this for NL caches only and the site did this for both BE and NL [...]

Buggered up?

searchjaunt — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:05:35 +0000

Is this it? Have I enough of it and should I quit? Do I need to look for other things to spend my money (more wisely)? I’m talking about travel bugs. I don’t seem to have a lot of luck with this aspect of geocaching. I have/had 5 of them. Many of them seem to [...]

Hidden treasures

searchjaunt — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:35:12 +0000

Last WE I’ve did some caches that showed how beautiful our region is. But my son (Dinti) couldn’t wait for the WE and he asked we couldn’t a cache. Luckily there was a new cache published: Voor de kleinsten by il imperiestro (GC26VCC), which had all the features he wanted. It was really nearby and [...]

Getting in too deep?

searchjaunt — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:00:08 +0000

Last Saturday, Freggie and I attended the GC event II: C A . . . . na pasen by KomPas-sie & Stevelly (GC20050). Since the event didn’t start before noon we had some time to pick up some caches along the way to the event location: De Werft by 10Zing (GC20ZR0) Binnendoor by Hufmaster (GC1ZKDP) [...]

New adept

searchjaunt — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:19:12 +0000

Yes, I know. I haven’t blogged for a while (maybe to the delight of some). The Easter holidays made me to spend some time on other things –> entertaining the kids. But before that, I could convince the family to have a nice walk by tackling the multi De Rotte Gaten by orsobianco (GC1533Y). It [...]

Differentiation

searchjaunt — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:59:39 +0000

I’ve seen this WE two nice examples on how diverse geocaching can be, even if speak about the same type of caches. And I’m not even referring to the fact the multi was located in a city whilst the other one took you in the woods. It’s the way how one should determine the end [...]

Time travelling

searchjaunt — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:32:42 +0000

Last Saturday, ‘De Bosklappers’ – an event team I’m part of attended – the WW7 event for some time travelling. Before doing this I did a third attempt to find De kabouterschat by JorenP (GC24FWH). The first attempt ended up in a disaster. My second attempt stopped after WP1 since some muggles felt the need [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]