It looks like I got a new device to play with: The Garmin Oregon 300. Thanks to this, I can throw out my broken GPS and can restart searching for geocaches again.

What are geocaches?
Geocaching is a game throughout the entire earth. People places caches (little things of the size of an old photo can up to a big bowl or a bucket) anywhere in the landscape (hidden of course) and upload the coordinates or riddles for finding those coordinates so that other people download them and search for it. A Game where you are outside and can make a lot of pictures, or just enjoy life. Also people put things into those caches or even travelbugs, which have a ID Number to log them online and track their movement if someone changes the location of it into another cache. Some of them even traveled 10k miles or more around on the planet.
For more info: www.geocaching.com

But I even found a new game to play with the Oregon 300. I was stumbling over an App called “Wherigo” and I didnt know what it meant until I got on www.wherigo.com. Its linked to geocaching and similar but maybe even better. You build a story or anything, maybe Monkey Island alike, and link real locations to virtual locations. For example you say Zone1 is the Bar of Monkey Island and you walk to Zone1. GPS will tell you something like a story or anything and maybe you need to get a new barrel of beer to get drinkin in the Bar running. So you walk to Zone2, where the brewerie is placed and you get beer there. You walk back, give the barrel to the bar and completed a quest. That way you actual visit the virtual places somehow instead of clicking anywhere on a screen where you character has to run to. I heard you can even fail in completing tasks or can make up scripted events, which can occur out of random. Sounds good, sounds even better, because you have no actual limits. Still, this project is yet in development but already playable. Not a lot of campaigns you can run yet, but I hope it will grow like geocaching. I can imaging running a “Zelda”-like Adventure somewhere around in the neiborhood, and watch people running around tryin to beat big Gannondorf.
Lets see, what will happen. Unfortunately the closest cartridge for Wherigo is 30km away, but I hope more will come. And maybe I will try that one.

Well then,
C ya outside
Rob