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Reconnect with Nature….

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There is a great campaign going on now that tries to help families reconnect with nature and to experience it first-hand.  In our busy worlds this is not always an easy thing to do.

Here’s an interesting statistic from the Ad Council… In the last 20 years the time children spend outside has declined by 50%.  Personally I believe a large portion of this decline can be attributed to things like computers, television, video game [...]

The Bomb Squad and Geocaching???

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Today (12/23/08) in Waynesboro, PA another geocache was interpreted by the local authorities to be a device of unknown origin and potentially dangerous.  You can read the article here… They ultimately ended up blowing it up and are now searching for the person that placed it.

In this day and age where you just can’t be too careful I can fully understand individuals (ie. muggles) being overly cautious when they see a stranger hide something [...]

Driver Follows GPS Into Lake

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Posted Sat Oct 25, 2008 12:07pm AEDT by ABC News 

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A Polish driver who was too sure of his GPS road navigation device ended up neck-deep in a lake after ignoring road signs warning of a dead-end ahead, Polish police said overnight.

“The man took a road that was closed a year ago when the area was flooded to make an artificial lake serving as a water reservoir – he ignored three [...]