In addition to what others have said, geocaching is meant to be fun. You will discover places you wouldn't otherwise know exist. When I was interested, but not at the point of purchasing a gps, I searched for one particular cache with my phone and didn't find it. I became very frustrated and gave up for a while. Thankfully, I got over it and started searching for other caches and got a gps. Eventually I went back to that one cache and found that even with the gps, the coordinates were pretty far off but I found the cache. That's a long way of saying, if you are interested, don't give up. You might move on to some other caches and go back to the tougher ones later. Also, I've found that usually my gps gets me closer than my phone. Last, it helped me to do some reading online about the many ways caches can be hidden. Have fun and enjoy yourself!
