I felt like getting out and about Sunday and we had already had decided to be sinning heathen pagans instead of going to church so I took off from the house to do a little running and geocaching. It was running along suburban residential streets and major thoroughfares featuring the big block stores and fake food restaurants.
This is what Kohl’s Cache looks like. Not quite the same as Kohl’s Cash. I’m sure I’m infringing on somebody’s trademark. If they catch me please send me a post card to Guantanamo Bay. I also tried finding a few Munzees.
Munzees are little QR codes put out by Munzee.Com. Its kind of like geocaching in that you use a GPS except when you find the QR code you scan it with your smart phone. For every find you get points. I don’t know what the points get you. You have to have a smart phone equipped with a GPSr as there does not appear to be any way to claim a Munzee without scanning it.
It was kind of fun finding the little Munzee QR’s and scanning them and there seems to be lots of them scattered around shopping areas and fake food restaurants but I don’t think that I’ll go out of my way to find them.
One problem I see is that there is no way to report back to munzee dot com if a QR code has gone missing. With geocaching, people log “did not finds” (aka dnf’s) and that lets the owner of the cache know that there might be a problem. I’ve already come across a missing QR code. I can see where the sticker used to be and it is gone for some reason. So how do I let the owner know that it is gone? There isn’t a way.
Also, it is very commercial and it seems that the whole thing is to get businesses to put out Munzees to lure us unsuspecting consumers into their stores in order for them to flog their merchandise, services, and food to us. I don’t know about you but that doesn’t sound like recreation to me.
Bottom line is that I’ll find Munzees when Sweetie is in Dress Barn and I don’t have anything else to do.
Below is the track of my meandering 5.72 mile route. I found three geocaches and four munzees and had a great time.
A good time is all that’s important!! Worth the time and the effort — sometimes even the money!! Keep having fun!!
You had a great day and all it cost was a little tread off your running shoes. Good for you.
To each his own – glad you had a good time BUT did you write your blog immediately afterwards? It’s not like you to make so many typographical errors. You tried hard on your enjoyment, “must try harder” is on your written work. Can you tell I always wanted to be a teacher??????? LOL
these are good ways to keep you on the move, get some exercise and avoid all that fake food
Looks like fun!
Sounds like you had lots of fun.
@LeedsLass – thanks for the heads up on the spelling errors. I think I have most of them taken care of by now.
You asked an earlier question about what it means to be the host of skywatch friday. What I do is create the weekly skywatch blog post where the participants link their individual posts to the skywatch blog. I also set up the weekly link tool that enables the participants to link. It doesn’t take that much time but is stressful for me because if I mess up often I wouldn’t be able to fix it for several hours.
I’ve only messed up once and everybody was very nice and supportive about it.
The whole thing is my tiny little way to give back to the blogging community.
Sounds like you are having a good time doing what you like to do. That is what counts. Thanks for sharing, have a happy week!
And now I know 🙂 Glad you had a great time but I think Geocaching is what we might look into.
I’m not sure that 71st and 169 is pedestrian friendly territory, but I’m glad that you enjoyed the trek.
Thanks for the explanation Yogi re. “hosting” duties. I am not at all computer savvy so you lost me a few words in BUT good on you for continuing with something that stresses you. Mind you, with your sense of humour, you could well be pulling my leg with that comment. Stressed or not, I’m so glad you comment on such a regular basis – you’re the first person I turn to when I wake up LOL.
It’s amazing, the varieties of finds and the blending of technology and stuff that goes into geocaching.
All right! Now I know what to call those things. I’ve seen them but had no idea what they were about.