I think we started out our Geocaching experiance perfectly. We bought the Garmin 60CSX right off the bat, we always bring the camera and take 30+ pics per cache. We bought a smaller car with better gas mileage so we can get down those narrow okinawa roads. We use google earth to plot our which areas we will head to so we can plan our day out. GSAK is awesome, and I am still trying to talk my friends who love to manually enter the coords in to use it. We have camelbacks, and have little cache kits all made up. Of course, we have only been caching for a little over a month, but what i am most glad about is the fact that we prioritize on having fun instead of the amount of caches we can get. I have seen people in a rat race to compete, and it takes all the fun out of the game. Stop and smell the flowers! Look in a tide pool, or discover a new cave......
My only regret is not knowing about this 3 years ago when we first got to Okinawa, because we have seen things thanks to caching that we would never had ever seen.