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Thanks to my brother Jim, I have acquired a new (to me) Nokia 9500 Communicator. Jim, who is blind, was interested in trying the 9500 out as a possible portable talking computer solution. The Nokia 9500 uses the Symbian Series 80 Operating System and Nuance has created a version of their SpeechPAKS Talks software for use with any phone that uses this or the Series 60 OS.

If you type ME TOO! with your left hand shifted over 1 key to the right, it comes out MR YOO!

This weekend, I had the honor and privilege of participating in my good friend Gregg Moore’s wedding in New York City. As Gregg is already aware, we have come to love Catherine and still can’t understand how he managed to convince a woman so lovely to marry him. I feel obligated to write something incredibly sappy and inspirational here, but I’ll probably just direct you to my wife’s entry in your wedding book. She is soooo much better at that than I. I would also like to thank Catherine’s parents, the Soltis’ and the Moore’s for throwing one of the most extraordinary parties I have ever had the opportunity to attend. If you didn’t get a chance to go, or are having problems remembering what went down, I have posted some pictures of this momentous event.

So, this is so much fun. After bagging my first cache on South Peak, Sean and I headed over to the summit of Moosilauke for cache number 2: Rusty’s Bivouac

I’m addicted. Cache 2 was quite a challenge as well. However, after decrypting the clue Sean and I successfully found Rusty’s Bivouac, only after finding someone else’s lavatory of convenience. Here, Sean and I found more travel bugs. After vowing to become an avid GeoCacher, sean took a travel bug from this cache with intentions of finding a new home for it in his home state of Connecticut.

Sean and I had a blast on this trip and here are the photos to prove it. CAUTION to fellow GeoCachers, there are spoilers in these photos.

OK, so 4 days after receiving my GPS receiver and 3 days after becoming a member of Geocaching.com I have found my first GeoCache: South Peek

As expected, I absolutely love this “sport” already. Long time backpacking partner, Sean Lawless and I planned an overnight trip up and down and around Mt. Moosilauke in New Hampshire. I found that there were at least two caches hidden along our proposed path. The first was somewhere atop our first summit of South Peak. The cache was not easy to find. However, I believe that had as much to do with my unfamiliarity with the new GPS receiver as the craftyness of the cache hiders. Inside this cache, we found what is known as a Travel Bug. After returning home I tracked the origin of this bug all the way from Oregon.

Sean and I had a blast on this trip and here are the photos to prove it. CAUTION to fellow GeoCachers, there are spoilers in these photos.