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Learning:
The Journey of a Lifetime
or
A Cloud Chamber on the Mind

Monday October 20, 2008 6:00 am Lethbridge

It is +4 C with a high forecast of +16 C. Sunrise 8:01 Sunset 18:31 Hours of daylight: 10:30.
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This page last updated on: Thursday, October 23, 2008 6:56 PM

A. Morning Musings

The geocaching is beginning to take precedence over my model trains. Today is also a week-day. Therefore I should spend an hour on calculus.

Learning Category	Planned Activities for Today	Time
Literature	Continue reading "Prey" by Michael Crichton	1 hr
Science	Continue reading "Canada Rocks"	1 hr
History	Begin reading "A Fair Country" by John Ralston Saul	1 hr
Model Trains	Continue building kits for 4 cylindrical hopper cars	1 hr
Geocaching	Set up a plan for west Lethbridge; visit 2 geocaches	4 hr

B. Actual Learning Activities

8:00 am

I have prepared 2 Planning Sheets for the 5 geocaches in West Lethbridge that I have yet to try. Three of these are in the coulee and will involve some walking. The other two look to be a case of little green things in trees. Preparation is an important aspect of this - I learned that from Team DJM. I have also downloaded the caches to my GPS. I have a coffee scheduled at Tim's for 8:30, and I have a few errands to run. Then I will see about trying at least a couple of the geocaches.

12:00 PM

Errands ran.

I wnt back to Chapters to buy a book on Champlain and ended up with 4 books:

• Champlain's Dream. (2008). David Hackett Fischer.
  • This is the book I was after. Hackett has already won a Pulitzer Prize for his writing, so he can write. Champlain is one of the most important figures in Canadian history. The combination should be superb.
• Get Smarter. (2007). Seymour Schulich.
  • I browsed this book in the store. It should be a quick read, reinforcing much of what I already believe, but there should be a few gems in it.
• Heritage Trees of Alberta. (2008). Heritage Tree Foundation of Canada.
  • I recall having a photocopy of an earlier publication of this Foundation. They have finally produced a new book, and I am delighted. I wonder if these trees would make good geocaches? Of course they would. They could also be pointers to the book. Hmm.
• Wild Alberta at the Crossroads. (2007). Marian White & Robin White.
  • This appears to be a superb combination of photography and personal journals. I think I may have spotted a diamond.

Now to try for the 2 caches in the coulee just north east of us. This will be a walking venture. Off I go, hi ho, hi ho ...

2:00 PM

Done. I had little difficulty finding GC1AK5Y - "Big Rock" and GC1AJBR - "Bushes". Having local knowledge of the trails in that part of the coulee made a big difference as I was able to avoid bushwhacking my way from one cache to the other - which was on the other side of a deep ravine.

5:00 PM

Two steps forward, one step back. I have just finished logging in my 2 "finds", only to find that a new cache had appeared in west Lethbridge. It is just off one of the parking lots at the university, so I am off to see if I can find it before dark.

6:00 PM

Done, again. Hopefully when I log this in shortly, there will not be any more newbies. Here is my report for GC1HCC8 - "It's Park Time".

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