There's coconut in satay, I think, so it's not likely.

I am allergic to coconut.

Not as far as I know.
Just teh evil peanuts.

I'd pretend to be allergic to them, but I can handle a handful of dry roasted.
And more than that of Ass Kickin Hot Peanuts!

I took mapreading in College and went on my first (and last) orienteering meet there.

I ended up going to the 'safety' area and walked back to the finish. I was late, but I would have won if I had completed my targets because almost noone completed the course.

Part of this was due to the fact that heat and humidity were excessive and I was one of the few people who brought a canteen.

I did get a few targets, but I was very frustrated by the one that I missed. Of course orienteering is compass and map, and with GPS things are much easier.

I do have a good sense of direction. Once I forgot my GPS and all my normal routes to work were closed or jammed. I used dead reckoning and made my way through the back roads. Once I relaxed and knew I would be late no matter what, I actually enjoyed the unfamiliar scenery. It was a clear morning and the sky was robins egg blue. At one point I was driving up a long 30 degree slope towards a section in a small valley. It looked like I was riding into the sky.

BTW, you are invited for BBQ when we get back from Vegas, I'll send you the coordinates.:D

Never used GPS, only Mr Beck's excellent map
Harry Beck designed the London Underground Map and it's bloody awesome x 100.

So being able to follow it without breaking stride isn't all that clever...

I blundered into an orienteering meet once, but since I was going to a different picnic (for which there was a location change and nobody told me), I didn't stay to check them out.

I know my way around a USGS quad, and was very disappointed to learn that the REI store doesn't sell them any more ... that was one of my favorite features of the store, and I was going to get the ones for Ricketts Glen, just in case.

I'm a bit too tired to write this punchline.

This one time, at bandcamp ...

As I've stated, I have a degree in Geography and Planning. There is actually only one viable Planning joke.

Since it's the dead of winter in Pennsylvania, which means 50 degree weather ... I've been out geocaching.

I like it better in the winter because the evil bugs are mostly asleep.

Although I was menaced by a spider today, trying to snag a trail map out of the container at the trailhead.

So, anyway, there's this geocache I was interested in, actually an earth cache. No container to find, just the spot and a geomorphologhy lesson.

I knew roughly where I was headed, but decided to go the long way around to the trailhead which was the first waypoint. Easily found the second waypoint marking the offshoot of the main trail that would take me down to the spot ... and ...

It was a fairly steep trail. I was fairly confident of my ability to get DOWN the train, completely uncertain about the UP part. I actually thought it over for about 15 minutes and decided that personal safety outweighed the amusement of being able to tell the 911 dispatcher EXACTLY where I was.

I'll go back, but I'll take a buddy.

Oh, and when I said the "long way around" I meant it.

From the parking lot the distance to the earthcache was supposed to be 0.8 miles.

Uh, yeah. As the crow flies.

Trudged my way along the path, and for quite a while my distance was decreasing and then ...

Yeah. Trail curved away from the destination point. How about that.

What does that mean, in practical terms?

Round trip 6.4 miles.

I continued around on the return trip, which was shorter than the to. I'll probably go that way when I do this again. Or pick a different parking area.

I'm curling up this evening with a nice bottle of Motrin.

this is funny!

Yeah. I had a good laugh over it as I was considering heading down that trail ... and I really mean down!

Where were you, Wolf?

ummm ... a park in an undisclosed location.

The one about running waste disposal through a recreation area?

Yep, that's the one.

Did a quick grab and go outside of the Evil Empire store today. A friend of mine had been unable to find it, not sure what her issue was.