While browsing through my local Northampton paper, the Daily Hampshire Gazette (which isn't completely a daily paper as it is published 6 out of 7 days of the week), I ran across an article on confluences. I had no idea what these were, or what people were doing with them. Turns out, a few years ago a guy started visiting places where confluences were located using the latest in handheld GPS technology. A confluence is where an integer degree of latitude and an integer degree of longitude intersect - where they meet with zero degrees. Since then, numerous people around the world have been visiting confluences. They take photos of where the confluence is located, write up their adventures in getting to the confluence, and submit it to the website started by Alex Jarrett at www.confluence.org. The web site is very cool to browse through seeing the photos and reading the stories. To date, 1,857 primary confluences have been visited and recorded. Its kind of wild to stumble across something like this, something people are just out there doing for fun, something that doesn't really ever make the news--except of course in a local paper like the one in Northampton. Searching for confluences seems like a great way to indulge hobbies of hiking, photography, and playing with a GPS...none of which are my hobbies, but its fun to read about them.