Walking Tour of Downtown Tampa
played
This was my first Wherigo experience. I bought a Garmin Oregon 450 during REI's Labor Day sale, which finally gave me the ability to play whereigo and chirp caches.
The site says "whereigo beta" and boy is that the right term. My Oregon crashed twice (spontaneously shut itself down) during my ~2-hour walk around Tampa tonight. After the first crash I started saving my game after every stage.
When I finally found the final cache, I stopped to record the unlock code and the Oregon locked up while I was thumbing myself an email. I pulled the batteries, went through the "i found it" screen again, and this time (a) copied the code quickly, then (b) saved the game immediately. Of course, when I went back to retrieve the code again so I could check it against what I had written, there was no way to retrieve the code. Ugh.
So: i think whereigo is not ready for prime time, but I had a fun time playing the game and hope to do the other one in Tampa before I head back home. I especially enjoyed the walking tour, because it showed me a bunch of the city I didn't know anything about. I definitely appreciate the time spent developing the cartridge, and it makes me want to do the same thing back home.
Thanks for the fun and the education!