Searching

Going hiking and possibly Geocaching with the kids and another mom and her kids. Geocaching is a good preparer for the Amazing Race (TAR). You have to go to sometimes unknown places and search for things. Sometimes there are multiple clues involved.

A good place to hide a cache. Look out for snakes!

We have found over 300 caches. Some of them easy and some hard. After a while you learn tricks of  the trade, and good places to look.

It is great exercise too. Some the caches require you to hike miles to find them. Others are park and grab caches. I bought a GPS about seven years ago. It was when I was in Graduate School and working 2nd shift. I would get up early in the morning and the caches would motivate me to hike.

I have been part of a Geocaching Tournament three times. There were hundreds of people trying to find about 50 caches over a 36 hour period. It was fun being in the middle of some remote woods at 2am and seeing dozens of other flashlights looking for the cache.