KingJoe

Any update, gettinlate? I'm curious to see if you found a fix or ended up returning it. Thanks! ~~KJ

41 finds, a FTF, and 2 cache adoptions in my first 9 days back caching (after a LONG hiatus)...I'd say I'm addicted, no? It's a disease I tell you, a horribly fun disease. We missed the Geocky CITO, but hopefully we can catch the Lake Cumberland CITO so we can get involved, albeit not locally. And maybe a Geocky meeting so we can meet our fellow Lexington-area cachers, too. We both signed up over at Geocky several days ago, so we'll keep an eye out. We just missed niffir the other night near Hamburg. I'm also pretty sure I saw a fellow cacher over at the new (terribly challenging) greenspace cache near Fayette Mall. Sometimes you're so busy trying to not look like you're caching you don't notice friends doing the same! Thanks!!

I agree...that was well said MotoXman. Here's my take (and yes, I'm new, but..): This is a game. Like any other game, you aren't forced into it. Rather than continually putting it down, HuntnLady, either stop playing or make it better (uptrading, TNLSomething, or making your own caches). If you didn't like Monopoly, would you play it? Probably not... Would you go on and on about how The Game of Life is so much harder than Monopoly? Probably not. There is joy in this thing for some!! Some love the "hunt"...some love getting lost in the woods...some love the exercise...and some just love getting outside. Sure, I could wander around the neighborhood to get exercise, and get out of the house...but I prefer to have an aim to my wanderings. Personally, I LOVE finding all those little parks and out of the way places that I have driven past for decades and never knew were there. It's all about preferences. We're all here for a different reason, but the important thing is we're all here. I enjoy finding tacky little trinkets, if I wanted to find gold coins I'd dive for shipwrecks, you know? I enjoy finding toys I can take to my nephews to play with, etc. I've left small (yes, likely worthless) things, but to me they meant something. A parking stub from my first cross-country road trip. Maybe next it'll be my niece with me, who'll want to leave her Hello Kitty doll for some keychain or toy. Are you implying that for her to part with her Hello Kitty toy has no place in caching? For her to do that would be like me leaving my cell phone or GPS (my adult security blankets) in that cache. I think we just need to remember that while we're off hunting treasure...everyone's idea of 'treasure' is not the same, and not everyone's treasure is INSIDE the cache. Good day and good caching all! ~~King