Times have changed, and with that comes forced obsolescence. Continue reading “Goodbye, GSAK”
Back to the old ways…
While the rest of the world is finally phasing out the last of their non-smartphones, I have given up mine in favor of the simplicity offered by the basic phone. Continue reading “Back to the old ways…”
Our equipment
We have two GPS reciever units that we use on our Geocaching expeditions.
When we first started caching, I was using our Nüvi 200. Before I purchased the premium membership with Groundspeak, I would “print” each cache page to PDF on our laptop, and save it to a directory on the hard drive with the file name prefixed by the number representing the order in which we would search for it. This was our version of “paperless caching.” The laptop would be with us on the hunt, and we’d have the Nüvi pull us to GZ after manually entering the coordinates. I’d leave it in driving mode until we got close to the cache, then I’d switch to “off road” mode with map orientation set to “track up.” It was a lengthy process, and to be honest, I’m surprised that we stuck with it!