Went geocaching, lost my phone
Went geocaching last week, the first day we took a trip to Mie-ken where, according to the weather forecast, it was the warmest place in Japan outside of Okinawa. Of course it snowed on the way back so you can guess how cold Japan is at the moment.
We managed to find the cache and we took a card and some guitar picks of none other than Joelle Bacic, who gave the Design Matters presentation on Garage Band 2. That was way cool.
The next day we went on a mini geocaching marathon around Osaka. The plan was to try to get to 15 and maybe find 10. Unfortunately we started late so only managed to get to half that number and find 5. It was getting so cold that we decided it wasn’t worth the risk of catching colds to continue the searches. Yah, we wimped out but we have only just recovered from long colds.
On the way home from the last cache search I lost my phone. Didn’t even realise until a couple of days later and then I couldn’t be sure that I hadn’t just misplaced it somewhere in the apartment. Having searched the apartment from top to bottom it dawned on me that I probably dropped it. I was wondering what I was going to do, since I really didn’t want to get a new phone (none of the new ones on my network impressed me). Luckily for me, someone found it and handed it in. Will go and collect it on Monday, since it is snowing today and I don’t want to subject Michelle to the cold.
Wow – cool that somebody found your phone. Was it a geocacher along the trails? There have been many instances where cachers in our locale have lost things and fellow geocachers found them for them. We found a pair of glasses once that belonged to a nearby cacher.
Geocachers are great people!
Mike and Barb
At The Jestcaching Blog
Not sure, but I don’t think it was the case cause I think I lost it on the way back (maybe on the subway). But having read what you wrote I would be more aware of possible lost things near caches.
And I definitely agree that geocachers are great people.