A Geocaching Weekend

I do not own a car and neither does Kaddi. But at least she has a drivers license. Because we were in the mood for some geocaching but already found the caches in close proximity I suggested to rent a car and get a bit out of the city.

The car we got was a Kia Cee'd – we had ordered a Smart but it wasn't available :-(. But the Kia was nice, too. It's bigger than a Smart and quite comfortable. What I liked most is the USB connector in the middle console. It allows you to charge your USB driven gadgets on the road without the need for any adapters.

Yesterday we drove out to the north east of Berlin. One cache guided us to a abandoned army compound. It was a surreal place. There were ruins of old trenches, bunkers and houses in the middle of the wood. We also found some nearly rotten military stuff like ammo crates and barbed wire. The best preserved remains were those of a storm track. A really lost place we would have never seen without geocaching.

Today we went to the south of Berlin were we looked for a series of caches, each containing a bit for an additional bonus cache. Unlike yesterday, when the sky was gray all day, we had perfect weather today. We saw some deer, a few birds of pray and even met other cachers at one location.

Below are some of the pictures we took. For a detailed overview where we were have a look at the maps I uploaded at GPSies: map for day 1, map for day 2.


Tags:
geocaching,
photos,
lostplaces,
map
Similar posts:

 
Posted on Sunday January the 13th, 2008 (9 months ago).

Comments

1
Geocaching is always something I wanted to get in to. What kind of hardware do you have? Maybe I'll pick something up off Amazon and make a weekend of it.
2008-01-14 07:11:25
2
Sounds like a great weekend. The photos of the old army compound are cool, and like you said, surreal. The one of the barbed-wire fence is particularly interesting, making a statement in it's simplicity.
2008-01-14 11:36:38
4
It looks like that one is either really hard to find in the US, or discontinued... not sure. I'm going to buy me a Garmin handheld though - there's a huge amount of caches here in Chicago 8)
2008-01-15 18:54:24
5
It is awesome to see people around the world geocaching.  Those are some awesome photos!  Maybe someday I can do a little Geocaching in Europe.

Thanks!
Garmin 60CSx is the tool for the job.
2008-01-22 02:27:49
CAPTCHA

No HTML allowed. URLs will be linked with nofollow attribute. Whitespace is preserved.

 
 

Blog

Older Weblog articles are available in the Archive, subscribe to the
Full Content RSS Feed
to stay tuned. (learn more)

Subscribe to the Feed

Recent Blog Entries

Geocacher T-Shirts

Geocaching T-Shirt

Check out the new geocaching t-shirts in the shop.

 

This is the personal web site of Andreas Gohr - human being, blogger and web geek from Berlin, Germany.

This page was last updated at 2008/01/13 21:16.
Imprint/Impressum

Tagged at del.icio.us:
No tags, yet. Why don't you bookmark it?

View blog reactions

Advertising:

Advertise Here
advertise here

Recent readers: