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Withdrawal Symptoms

Sat, Jan 07, 2012

Withdrawal Symptoms

Thanks to my chest infection starter, near-pneumonia main course with a side order of removed toenail and a dessert of sore throat I haven’t had much of a chance to cache since the start of December.  I managed a cough-ridden hobble up the street at the mother-in-law’s to find a cache in their Cornish village but that’s about it...

 

...finding my Driver’s Licence had expired too without a reminder arriving from the DVLA (DMV) didn’t do much to lift my mood and I am feeling decidedly pedestrian at present.

 

I’ve passed the lunch times at work and late nights at home over the Christmas break planning a series of caching walks to once I can drive to the start points and, while not quite the same as actually caching, it does mean I can literally grab my caching rucksack and go searching without wasting time planing where to go first.

 

So imagine my reaction when I looked on geocaching.com at noon today and found a 2 ½ mile walk of 14 caches had been created a few days ago within 3 miles of my office! I quickly copied out all the coordinates and downloaded the pocket query I have called “800 within 100 miles of work” (Optimistic chap, me) and uploaded it to GeoShrine on my mobile phone. I printed out my route, made arrangements to have the afternoon off and for my car-share friend to meet at 5pm at the end of the trail.

 

Now to upload the GPX file to my GPSr....

Where’s my GPSr?

Oh bugger... It’s at home in our kitchen...

 

Back to work then.

By OckmentBells

OckmentBells has only been geocaching since September 2010 but is thoroughly hooked to the point of obsession. Whether it’s quick lunchtime cache and dashes or the occasional weekend hunt for 10 or so it’s a great hobby. With his wife, eldest son (5) and twin sons (3) stealth isn’t always possible so they go for remote caches or forest trails when hunting en-masse.

 

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