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

Monday October 27, 2008 5:30 am Lethbridge

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This page last updated on: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 6:45 AM

A. Morning Musings

This morning I head off to Medicine Hat with TeamDJM to do some geocaching. I have about a dozen caches loaded onto my GPS unit. With 3 bodies and 2 GPS units the caches don't have a chance. Unless they are little green things in trees. As with our earlier trip I expect to learn more about how to organise for such a trip as well as how to look for caches once we are close to the coordinates. Already I have learned about the value of a friction mount for attaching a GPS unit to the dash of a vehicle. Unfortunately the store in Calgary is out of stock at the moment. I also expect to learn more about the parks in the Medicine Hat area.

Learning Category	Planned Activities for Today	Time
Model Trains	Web surfing of model train sites	1 hr
Literature	Continue reading "Through Black Spruce" by Joseph Boyden	1 hr
History	Continue reading "A Fair Country" by John Ralston Saul	1 hr
Geocaching	Trip to Medicine Hat ( Found 7, DNF 1)	9 hr

B. Actual Learning Activities

6:00 am

One of the members of the SAMRC gave me the following url: www.carendt.us What a great way to spend an hour in the early morning.

5:00 PM

I am back from my second geocache trip with TeamDJM. What a great way to spend a day. This time we drove to Medicine Hat and tried to find a total of 9 caches. We ended up with 7 "Founds" and 2 DNFs (Did Not Find). Our 6th find was also my 50th find. A small milestone. Now to aim for 100. I also watched as two new caches were set in place.

Here is a list of our activities (click on the link to see the report):

• GC12444 Branch Out (Found)
• GC1C0QK Will You Marry Me (DNF)
• GC1GBKV Farmer's Travel Bug Barn (Found)
• GCYJVW Off The Path (Found)
• GCY3DW Where We Live (Found)
• GCT3MB Riverside (Found)

Lunch at Tim Horton's

• GC16GA9 Ghost Train (DNF - see report)
• GC1400B A Stellar Cache (Found) FIND #50
• GC13QZ1 Bits and Bytes (Found).

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