Looking for a frugal way to have fun? Try Geocaching! My wife and I were looking for something fun to to to get us outside without breaking the bank. We recently moved to a new city a few years ago and geocaching helped us explore so many nooks and crannies we would have never found on our own. All you need is your smartphone to get started or a handheld GPS. Geocaching is worldwide and you could plan vacations around it if need be. Its great to add some excitement to your hiked as well
Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity, in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called "geocaches" or "caches", anywhere in the world.
A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook where the geocacher enters the date they found it and signs it with their established code name. After signing the log, the cache must be placed back exactly where the person found it. Larger containers such as plastic storage containers (Tupperware or similar) or ammunition boxes can also contain items for trading, usually toys or trinkets of little financial value, although sometimes they are sentimental. Geocaching shares many aspects with benchmarking, trigpointing, orienteering, treasure-hunting, letterboxing, and waymarking.
Anybody here a cacher? I am yet to get out there this season as I am a warm weather snob and a bit lazy but I plan to start this weekend again.