GC2NG62 - R0AR!!! Sue the T-Rex is a puzzle cache, probably one of the most difficult geocaching puzzles I have ever solved. I had to have a little help from a friend to get the job done. I then set the result aside because it was just too far to go. And I knew that at some point I would be in the neighbourhood. Today was that day.
I was invited to a 40th anniversary celebration for a former colleague and his wife in Timberlea today so I loaded up the waypoint in both my Oregon and Nuvi. After the party I headed out on the hunt, complete with dress shoes and a tie! I soon realized that I had loaded both GPSr's directly from the cache page instead of GSAK, which had the corrected coordinates. In other words I was navigating to the wrong location. I did have the corrected coordinates in my iPod, though, so I pulled over and edited the numbers in both receivers. After that it was a quick find!
One other thing happened today. I had loaded all Nova Scotia waypoints to my Nuvi as points of interest. When you make the load, you have the option to set an alarm as you arrive at a given distance from a POI. I could see problems with that, so to be safe I set a rather conservative (so I thought) distance of 200 meters.
Wrong move!
That frickin' Nuvi alarmed quite regularly all the way in on the 101. And when I got to the St. Margarets Bay Road it beeped almost constantly. At one point I counted 23 alarms in a row - bing bing bing 23 times. I thought I was going to go nuts. I couldn't shut the Nuvi off because I needed it to direct me to my destination. So I had to put up with it.
I swear, I am going to hear that alarm in my sleep tonight.
Needless to say, the Nuvi got reloaded tonight with no alarm set. Not going to fool me twice.... I hope.
Whoops forgot to tell you about the alarms. LOL
ReplyDeleteI made the same mistake.
Sorry about that.
No problem, Brian. In fact, I think you did mention it once but I had forgotten until I heard the first BING!
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