Show 918.0: Serendipity and Helpful EDC Tools
PodCacher: Geocaching Goodness
Sonny and Sandy Portacio: Geocachers, Podcasters and Entertainers
4.9 • 792 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On our geocaching podcast today, we have a great EDC idea and one you may not have thought of before as well as another helpful tool for photographing your geocaching adventures. We also share a listener rant on the topic of Adventure Lab GeoArt, a discussion of serendipity in geocaching, souvenir opportunities and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Sunny. |
| 0:14.8 | From Sunny, San Diego, California. |
| 0:17.1 | Welcome to Podcacher. |
| 0:18.4 | This show is packed with geocashing goodness, news, tips and tricks, and tools of the trade. |
| 0:23.6 | Also interviews, geocaching events, and stories from around the world. |
| 0:27.2 | You can find show notes with links mentioned on the show and a lot more geocashing goodies at Podcatcher.com. |
| 0:33.4 | So with that, let's get on with the show. |
| 0:36.5 | Music So with that, let's get on with the show. |
| 0:56.8 | Hey there. Hello and welcome to another podcatcher podcast. |
| 1:01.8 | We are glad you're here with us for show 918 for September 15th, 2025. |
| 1:08.5 | And no matter where you are in this great wide world, hopefully you had a little time to find some geocaches with friends, family, complete strangers. |
| 1:30.4 | This last week, we had the chance to have dinner with a few of my college friends. Hadn't seen them in a while. It's been a while. Yeah, but it's always fun. I mean, college was a long time ago. I won't tell you how many years ago. But, yeah, it's fun. And we actually chatted a little bit about geocaching. They knew it's something we did, but they weren't. Didn't really totally understand what it was about. |
| 1:31.9 | Honestly, in this day and age, |
| 1:38.5 | because how, how many years has geocaching been around early on? 25. Right, right. Early on, |
| 1:46.5 | it didn't surprise me. You know what I mean? Like in 2001, 2002, when I got into it and I was telling people about it. I mean, that was one of the lectures I would give, actually, at a lot of |
| 1:51.2 | educational tech conferences was about geocaching, and people were excited about it because |
| 1:55.1 | it was like a new thing. You know, the release of the, what is it called availability select availability right when that was |
| 2:06.2 | shut down then it was like a big thing you know those GPS remember those GPS receivers they |
| 2:11.7 | were dedicated for the car the Magellons and stuff I don't know if anybody still uses those |
| 2:15.7 | yeah but it was a big thing you you know, GPS use and all that. But what surprises me is now people still like, what is geocatching? |
| 2:25.3 | Or at least haven't even heard of it. Or even haven't heard of it. Doesn't that, what about you guys? |
| 2:30.1 | Is that surprise you that somebody has not even heard of it? Anyway, all right. Saturday, |
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