It has been quite a while since I last updated the Geocaching page. The last time I found a geocache was in 2023, and then only three of them that year. Two in 2021, and then it dips back to 2019 when I was active. There's a lot of reasons for this. Abject poverty, depression. Losing my geocaching bag with the majority of my belongings in the 2010's somewhere, whenever that happened (I tend to block it out). Somehow, my GPS survived, but at some point, I just couldn't bear it any more. I think the final straw was when my Kabucrikey Geocoin went missing, I think in a box that never made it across the ocean when moving to England. I'd mostly put it down for the other reasons before then, but then the loss of that coin kinda did me in.
And then some things started to turn around. My friend MétisAngel (geocaching.com) offered to gift me a premium account, but I ended up saying to offer it to someone more active. And then I went on a few road trips where, if I had had my GPS on me, I could have found some geocaches in some amazing locations (and also added Wales to my list of places I've geocached). And then the final thing... the old geocoin came back.
Or at least it will soon (I hope I hope I hope). Shortly after the Wales trip, MétisAngel sent me a link to some cool dragon geocoins, and while those weren't available for purchase (I had considered using one as a replacement for the lost one), it did get me to search online for that coin.
And. I. Found. It. Not only did I find it, I found it unactivated on eBay. Oh you KNOW I had to snap that up in a tenth of a second. Now, they only shipped to the USA, but I do have a niece there (one of the Blagden clan), who offered to receive it for me and send it on. And that is where that currently waits... currently in transit on its way to me.
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In the meantime while waiting, I decided that I needed to prep my geocaching setup. While I don't have all the bells and whistles, digital camera, string, wire, I do still have a number of tetra orbs, and a tradeable toy that I've been holding onto for way too long. And so, I made a number of möbius balls, some micromaille balls, and came up with a system to carry them. A large change purse can hold the tradeable and tetra orbs, a small bag inside can hold the tiny stuff. We still have our inkless pen, and while I can't get maps for a GPS this old any more, it'll still point me at coordinates, and that'll do.
It's minimal, it lacks a lot of the bells and whistles that my old setup had, but it'll take me to a geocache and I'll be able to leave my signature item, still unmissed in leaving one in/at every find. I've been told that GSAK is avaiable for free now (though usage on Linux has yet to be seen), but if I can somehow get that working again, I can perhaps update the master list of cache logs. All things to be seen to, but first and foremost, lets get out caching again.
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< More to follow once that coin arrives, and the next weekend rolls around (it's literally after midnight on the last day of this weekend lol, please forgive me for not going out in the literal middle of the night during a new moon yet >
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