Spreading The Geocaching Word
A few weeks ago I was booked to go to Guildford (about 90 minutes drive from home) for a Blackberry Administrator training course.
Picking my hire car up the night before I was due to go I noticed that the CD player had built in MP3 support and an auxilliary port for MP3 players. Unfortunately the battery in my old iPod only lasts for about 45 minutes so the choice was quickly made to burn some music to a CD for the journeys.
I chose some random music, some brand new, some old, rock and pop. I had a couple of hundred meg spare on the CD and had previously got iTunes to download the latest two Podcacher podcasts and (I think) the Cache-A-Maniacs Podcast.
Well, the course was great, I learned much and am now able to answer the users’ questions to why their email service on their Blackberry sucks!
As good as the course was, the drive to and from the venue was great too. I live about 10 minutes drive from work so the commute is normally short. Having the chance to sit in the car for 90 minutes without worrying about boring my wife with a Geocaching podcast, being able to enjoy the whole podcast and ponder what the guys were talking about was great.
So, how does this tie in with the “spreading the word” title?
Well I went looking for the CD last night to bung it in the Mini to listen to on the 10 minute journey to work. I spent about 30 minutes looking before I realised that I had left the CD in the player in the hire car!
I hope that the person that found it had a flick through the contents, found the podcasts, had a listen, got their interest peaked and went and looked at the Geocaching.com website…
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