![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After finding the “square and metallic” box “under the platform”, Jennings realizes the true excitement of the sport (Jennings 195). Jennings documents his first experience geocaching with his young son. These caches contain a logbook to record your finding and, if big enough, small trinkets and toys, or “swag”, to trade with and switch out. He explains how a person uses global positioning systems, or GPS, to pinpoint certain treasures laid out by other people at certain coordinates called “caches”. In chapter 10 of Maphead, Ken Jennings introduces the reader into the worldwide treasure-hunting activity of Geocaching and its addictive aspects. Unfortunately, I have never traveled outside of North America. Outside the United States, I have traveled to Mexico via a cruise and I go on yearly fishing trips to Ontario, Canada. I have been to many states inside the United States including Iowa, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Illinois, Minnesota, Kansas, Mississippi, and a few more. Along with English, I have taken three years of Spanish and have a basic understanding of reading and hearing it, but I am far from fluent. I’ve lived here since and can be considered an LT lifer. After a short two months after birth, my parents and I moved to Lakeway, back when relatively nothing was here. I was born in Houston, Texas on Ap(Earth Day). ![]()
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