There was a travelbug called Puddles the Duck. He was a rubber duck that wanted to go to places with water. He started his journey in New Jersey. He ended up drowning in the Netherlands because the cache he was in was at the bottom of the river and it got swept away in a storm. They never seem to survive.

Anyway, my family's really big into geocaching but I hadn't hear of geohashing until now. There are some really creative ones out there; I've found one that looked like a rock in a pile of other rocks and another that was dangling from a tree limb over a river. The only restriction is that you can't bury them.

I've been Geocaching since 2001, which is around when it started, and I have to say, I really like it. I'm an avid hiker, so Geocaching kinda gives my walking around a purpose. I've seen people get really creative with the caches too; there was one hidden under a fake sprinkler, and I helped my dad make one that looks like a pretty convincing beehive. People have said that they were afraid to go near it.

But I really like letterboxing, which is a similar idea. People hide little boxes with stamps and a notepad, then other people follow clues (posted at letterboxing.org) to find the boxes. They can range from simple directions to devilishly complex puzzles. Each letterboxer carries their own unique stamp, and when you find the letterbox, you stamp your stamp in the box's notebook and the box's stamp in your notebook.