Friday, I took a quick twenty minute break from work, zoomed over to REI and purchased a Garmin GPSMAP 60CS GPS. It is a very expensive unit. However, I had two hefty gift cards that covered the bulk of the purchase. So, it wasn't quite as bad as it could have been.
The GPSMAP 60CS may be the coolest GPS ever - big color screen, fast loading, tons of features, and most importantly, a big honking antenna!
So, I've got to perform the GPS's initial setup. When you initially configure a GPS, you load in your home coordinates, set the date/time, calibrate the compass, etc. The factory loaded home coordinates are the mothership coordinates - which happen to be Taiwan. When I display the map page, a map of Taiwan comes up and the home waypoint is "GRMTWN". Which I would guess is short for Garmin Town. It could also be Garmin - Taiwan. But, it's cute nevertheless - that when you first turn on your GPS in Anchorage, Alaska that the GPS is insisting that you are Taiwan. However, as soon as it gets its bearings - i.e. homes in on the satellites, it will figure out that it has moved from the tropics to the Frozen North.
Anyhoo, to celebrate, I'm taking it out on its first geocaching trip today. And what a day for geocaching: 32 degrees and bright sun. The snow looks marvelous!!!!
12:46:03 PM 
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