I was working at the Institute for the Application of Geospatial Technology in NY – (all NASA education stuff – very cool) some of the guys there where taking some undergrad students on an evening caching in the finger lakes area - I had the option of joining them or going to the hotel bar for a beer.
It all sounded very very geeky to me so I retired to the bar and ridiculed the group for going out and “looking for boxes in the woods”
Got home and was looking for things to do with my kids during the summer and looking thru some of my notes from NY too (multi tasking – you like???) I found a cache in the wood opersit my house and I thought I would have a look
It was great fun and the kids (then 3 and 5) LOVED it.
Got hooked over the next few months then had to face the humberling return to upstate NY for two weeks work when I wanted to cache every day.
Since then my three members of my family have signed up and I’m averaging about a cache a day ever since