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The first task this morning will be to reassemble the tete-a-tete and place it back on the patio. Then I need to clean the garage so it is ready for the car as the winter approaches.
I am going to spend a couple of hours in Nicholas Sheran park trying to locate the four geocaches that I have downloaded onto my Garmin. I am still trying to get a sense of how to proceed. I think I will begin a special logbook with a page devoted to each geocache session. One question I have is whether to use pen & paper or to create a web site. The web site is better suited to the inclusion of photos. Another question is what to take with me when I go out. I now realize that in addition to the Garmin, I want to take my camera. A small cloth where I can layout the contents of the geocache for a photo seems like a good idea.
| Learning Category | Planned Activities for Today | Time |
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| Technology | Learn to use mac software that communicates with my Garmin nuvi 850 | 2 hr |
| Literature | Complete reading "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway | 2 hr |
The tete-a-tete is on the patio, and the garage is clean.
I am beginning to plan for a geocache trip to Nicholas Sheran park. I will take my back pack containing camera, Garmin (I need to have a couple of extra batteries on hand!), a cream colored cloth to use as a backdrop for displaying the contents of a cache. On longer trips a map and a lunch may be desirable.
The first step is to download the cache(s) that I will try to find. The website for this is http://www.geocaching.com . I have logged on and asked for geocaches near my home. There are 4 such sites in Nicholas Sheran park. Yesterday I tried to find "NS WEST #2" (GC16ZFP) but failed to find it. I did find "Mosquito" (GCX1J0). This was my first geocache!
Today I hope to find "NS WEST" (16Y8C) and "NS WEST #4" (GC 1A9T4). I will also revisit "Mosquito" and take a picture or two, and will make another attempt at finding "NS WEST #2". I have added all 4 geocaches to my "watchlist" so I will be able to see when others find these.
I clearly have much learning ahead. I am back from a very enjoyable walk in the park. I revisited the "Mosquito" geocache and took 3 pictures: one of the contents of the cache (notebook, plastic surfboard from Maui, two little geobugs, an AA battery, a toy bowling pin, and an Ontario geocoin (# PCXV7D); one of the actual container; and a third of the grove of trees in Nicholas Sheran park where the cache was located.
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However, that was the end of my successes. I failed to find any of the remaining three geocaches, even though I had no difficulty locating the areas with my GPS unit. However, at least at the moment, I am more interested in simply using the hunt as a method of getting outdoors than I am in actually finding items. I spent almost 2 hours outdoors, and the weather was great.
This is a superb war story. On the surface it is the story of an American fighting with the partizans in the Spanish civil war. But fundamentally it is a powerful story about the pointlessness of war. As with A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway blends a love story with the unemotioninality of war.
I would rate this story as 5 out of 5.
Tags: novel, USA
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