So I was out with my friend today and we had nothing planned. So I would like to ask y’all to suggest activities and just little adventures you guys would do.

List of things we did:

  • Searched online of things to do in our county and found some cool activities. Ended up going to a vietnamese lantern festival thing

  • Geocaches

  • Wandered around in a park because of geocaching

  • Tasting of water from the water fountain at the park

  • DrQuickbeam@lemmy.world
    184·
    3 months ago

    Make a small spray paint stencil or vinyl sticker that represents your crew, or inspires people to think differently, and put them around your town or natural areas in subtle, cleverly inconspicuous locations.

    Explore your area with Alltrails, or a similar app, finding new hiking or biking trails.

    Urban exploration: creep through abandoned buildings, climb fire escapes to reach the rooftops, use catwalks under bridges to cross roads and rivers, scurry through large water drain pipes and abandoned steam tunnels.

    Start a lucid dreaming competition with your friends, and share your experiences every morning. As you all develop more dreaming skills, you can share them with each other, and slowly become the masters of your dreams.

    Come up with scavenger hunts that guide people into the coolest, hidden areas of your town, using clever clues, and share them online, similar to geocaching.

    Pick up rubbish off the ground, one area at a time.

    If it doesn’t exist publically in your country, get equipment to either test air or water quality at several spots around your community, and then share them online through posts, or by hosting an Ushahidi map. Encourage others to chip in.

    Get your gang to volunteer together to help homeless, elderly or disabled people once or twice a month. You will both bond with your buds and gain new perspectives from the people you work with.

    Arrange spontaneous dance parties in public with little flash mobs made up of your mates. Try to get strangers to join in on the fun. Disperse after one song, so you don’t get in trouble.

    Learn to identify the 10 most common trees in your area, then the 10 most common flowers, the 10 most common weeds, the 10 most common birds and the 10 most common insects.

    Explore local theater, try to find weird niche performances at churches, swingers clubs, primary schools, corporate retreats, futurist festivals, government events, and street corners. Make sure to cheer loudly and throw flowers.

    • ysjet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      153·
      3 months ago

      What a weird combination of suggestions.

      “Enjoy nature! Volunteer! Support local projects! Litter.your community with graffiti!”

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.eeOP
    91·
    3 months ago

    Just came up with another idea, suggest stuff to OpenStreetMaps if the area needs to be edited or added.

    Edit: and rate stuff on yelp, TripAdvisor, or something else like that.

    • AngryClosetMonkey@feddit.nl
      11·
      3 months ago

      If you are interested in open street maps, then you might want to check out the StreetComplete app. It will give you various quests to complete and achievements to unlock.

      • Anonymouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        I’ve been doing street complete for over a year now and didn’t know how much I would enjoy it. It’s also doing something for the community of people who use open street map data (usually hobbyists or folks looking for an alternative to the privacy violating giants). I feel proud of my work when I see my contributions on OSMAnd+ or when I post a picture of a place and somebody can use that data to contribute to the map.

      • Crotaro@beehaw.org
        1·
        3 months ago

        Can confirm, StreetComplete is very fun to enhance your general existence in / awareness of a place.

  • Crotaro@beehaw.org
    4·
    3 months ago

    If you have birds in your area, try finding and identifying them (for example by using Merlin Bird ID).

  • WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world
    31·
    3 months ago

    I’ve recently switched from Geocaching to Ingress. It has very similar benefits and doesn’t require digging around a bunch of ivy.

      • WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 months ago

        It’s similar to geocaching and Pokémon Go because you have to visit the location to interact with it. There is also a whole team aspect.

        • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.eeOP
          1·
          3 months ago

          I tried pogo but fell off really quick. Maybe I’ll give the app a try but based off on the description, doesn’t interest me. Geocaching has many more elements to it. You can find cool hiding spots, visit interesting places on hikes, solve puzzles, learn about natural geography, history of the area, I really like it