Thanks Pepper and TotemLake... ;-)
Since I have a bad knee and more than a little weight to lose (one of the reasons I decided to do this), I have to start slow on the hiking part...but I'll get there eventually.
Right now I'm just kinda driving around and getting use to reading the GPSr...and when the rain dies down a bit I'll try to get out of the car and see if I can find something.
As for the addiction part, I think that's already happened. I may not have found a cache yet, but I've already started planning to make my own...