I’m so excited.  When I heard about the Find the Gecko contest by GEICO.  I immediately went to the website to request a GEICO Gecko Trackable.  Last week I went back to the website and was sad to see that they had all been taken.  Saturday when I checked the mail, I found a letter [...]

I tried to find this cache earlier in the week but there were to many teenage muggles around.  I went back yesterday morning when Manassas old town was pretty empty except for some city workers. I use my the geocaching app on my iPhone to navigate to caches.  Sometimes it is right on and other [...]

I guess Walmart and lamp posts are usual places to hide caches.  I can now say that I have found one of those caches.  I have to admit it was quite easy.  The cache was inside a plastic film canister that I don’t see very often now that digital cameras are being used.  I think [...]

Friday after school, I headed to a nearby cache. It turned out to be by a childcare facility where the playground was filled with “muggles”.  Borrowed from the Harry Potter books, a “muggle” is a person who doesn’t geocache.  The cache I was looking for was placed in a small wooded area that bordered the [...]

Today was the Discovery Education Geocaching Day across the US.  After a bumpy start, I headed to Maryland to meet Riptide AKA Fred Delventhal at Clearwater Nature Center in Clinton, MD.  We began our day by checking out the Nature Center itself.  One of the “critters” there was a little owl who had lost one [...]

Years ago, one of my ITRT professional development days included using GPS systems with students.  We were given a GPS unit and went outside and I HATED it.  I couldn’t figure out how to do it.  For some reason the idea stayed in my brain. I heard about geocaching from different sources.  The DEN sponsored [...]