Geocaching 101

Has anyone out there been geocaching before...it's really fun and our kiddos loved hunting for "treasures." My friend at work is a veteran geocacher and suggested we take the kids this summer. Today we made our first, family trip...we stayed in the Princeton/Farmersville area, but caches are EVERYWHERE!  It's easy...just start out on the Official Geocaching Website where you can sign up for free.  It's self-explanatory from there...today the Copelands were fifty percent from the field.  We went to four different places, but only found treasures in two of those four spots using our GPS and the provided coordinates. When you find it, you sign the log and when you get home, you log back into the website to post that you found that specific one. You can even leave some treasures of your own, too...we left evangelism tracks.  You never know whose hands they might land in, and everybody needs Jesus, that's for sure!  Matthew 6:21 tells us, For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. I look forward to making some more geocaching trips!  We can cross this one off the summer bucketlist for now!


Our first stop was to find the City of Farmersville cache:

Do you see it?

The next place took us to a graveyard in Farmersville...believe me, the Copeland kiddos had lots of questions when they saw the graves.  We were unsuccessful at this location, but after reading what everyone else posted; we weren't the only ones.

Poor boy was only 19, and died less than two months before Shawn was born.

The hint the website gave us was that the cache was a few feet from this football statue...unfortunately, we were at the correct coordinates, but it wasn't there.  Sometimes people tamper with these things.

Next, we were taken to yet another graveyard, and were unsuccessful again.  There's just something about these graveyards.  We ended our day on a good note, though.  Our last geocache find was at a little country church.  The hint was, Faith Lifter, and our coordinate led us to this:

This is a light post that was there in the middle of the parking lot.  They left the log in the medicine bottle, and we left our little evangelism track for someone to read.  What a fun-filled morning!