I know topics on this are often discussed on Geocaching.com, but I seem to be having trouble getting into the forum tonight and I was hoping to get some quick advice since we will probably shop for one tomorrow.
We are on vacation and stopped at a zoo today in Florida. At some point in the day, my GPSr disappeared, either it fell off our stroller without our noticing it or someone walked off with it when we turned our backs to look at and/or feed the animals. We left our contact information with the zoo, but I am not hopeful of its return at this point. Even if they do contact us, backtracking 200 miles to pick it up is not feasible, so we would have to wait until they could ship it to us and we had hoped to do some more waymarking/geocaching during the next week of our trip. We are considering stopping at a store tomorrow and seeing what is available for an inexpensive replacement. Although I would love to upgrade to a Colorado or other device capable of WhereIgo, I cannot justify it in our budget right now. I am hoping for something less than $100 as a stop-gap until I can afford to go for something more high-end. After that I would let my soon-to-be six year old son use it while we waymark and geocache.
Although we primarily do waymarking, we still do geocaching when it coincides with the waymarking. We are also slowly working our way through the DeLorme pages and counties of Wisconsin (about 60% complete).
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!