I’ve finally gotten all my Geocaching log entries into my Geocaching blog. I did about 2/3 of them manually, but then thought it would be worth it to write a script to grab them off the site. The new page on the Geocaching site that shows just the log entry made this a lot easier. For now I have a script that given a list of caches, scrapes the site, decodes the logs and exports them into blogger format for importing. It even updates the timestamps with the times like ‘4:26 pm – ‘, as is my convention in the logs.

Ideally what I want is ‘sync’ button that will pull all changes from the site into the blog. But that will require more time. It’s not so bad to log caches in both places right now.

The reason that I’m doing all this is because these little stories contain interesting anecdotes and experiences in our lives. With over 300 caches done now and what I figure as an average of 20 minutes spent on each cache, that’s a written log of 100 hours of my life. Next to my credit card statements, it’s probably the most detailed journal of where I’ve been and what I’ve done. I’m looking forward to much more.