Geocaching

Have you heard of it? Geocaching is all the rage among the GPS set (thats global positioning system of course). Basically, someone secrets away a package in a specific location. They can be anywhere from the size of a small tube up to a box large enough to hold a football. Maybe even larger. The geocacher then registers the location, and maybe a hint or two, on a website with the exact coordinates of the location. Others come along, grab the coordinates and go out to try to find the cache. The more creative the better. Some caches contain the basic log (when you find it, write your name and the date), but others can contain all sorts of prizes. For example, there are some that have "travel bugs" that are meant to be taken (logged on some website, no doubt), and replaced in a different cache, only to be taken and moved by the next geocacher. Larry, Julie's dad, has one that started in Southern California and is traveling the country through the movement by other geocachers! He's a link in the chain that will eventually bring the item (a small model motorcycle) back to southern California. Of course, they'll take it to Colorado first, certain that someone will find it and send it on its way southwest.
Now, one thing I must tell you: sometimes these caches can be in odd locations. Some are camoflauged, some are ingeniously hidden before your very eyes. And some are in the woods, diabolically hidden next to vast fields of poison oak. You should avoid these.