[Perdidogringo]

Resurrecting this thread, in recent years, I've combined my love of history, hiking, and camping by taking up metal detecting. It's not just for old, retired men on the beach. I live in South America and travel extensively and through good research and perseverance have discovered old Spanish colonial sites and numerous old coins and relics, usually in the jungle and other off the grid places. The research part of it (which should be 75% of your time) stimulates intellectually, while the actual search in difficult to get to areas is great excercise. My friends and I often camp in jungles and in picturesque areas. And the thrill of discovering something lost hundreds of years ago is the icing on the cake.