Wednesday, September 06, 2006

I Wonder as I Wander

Whoo boy are we tired today! We went out geocaching yesterday with the intent of hitting three caches but after our first one we quit. Whew. The cache was at a city park of 400 acres filled with sculptures randomly placed among walking trails. Well, we ended up parking as far away as we could get, as it turned out there were two separate segments to the park. We walked probably 2 to 2 1/2 miles to get to the cache and then since we had slogged through damp, muddy trails in the woods and through fields we thought we'd try to find a different way to get back to the truck. Well, that ended up being a 2 mile walk after we found a logger who told us how to get out of back roads we were wandering to be able to get back to our truck. You see I couldn't figure out how to turn on the backtracking feature of the GPS and had forgotten to mark our parking location in it. Plus the rechargeable batteries are no longer holding their charges. Gah!

Needless to say, we were tired, muddy and quite ready to sit for a while after that experience. We decided to indulge ourselves in lunch at Carson's Ashford House restaurant, which tasted wonderful after all that exercise. Amazingly, Denny never complained once. What's up with that?

Last night I hauled out the owner's manual for the GPS and found out how to turn the backtrack feature back on and recharged a couple of sets of batteries. I learn the hard way sometimes, but I do learn.


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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

My hubby dreams of getting a GPS. He loves gadgetry and loves cars. Maybe in our next one. :-)

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