caver53

Can you do Wherigo's with the dakota models?

We love caching of all types. Normally, we're more interested in quality than quantity and can have a great day of caching and put in a full day with only 5 or 6 smilies to add to our list. But I love those quick micros when I'm in an unfamiliar town and looking for something to do in the evening besides sitting in a motel room staring at the TV. We'll often take long caching weekends and spend our days "country" caching and our evenings "town" caching.

We're both in our mid-50's and both prefer caches where we have to get out into the country and do some travelling. With limited vacation time due to jobs, we enjoy occasionally hopping on a plane and heading somewhere new for a few days of non-stop caching. Hubby, with two hip replacements, prefers caches that are a scenic country drive, but that you can drive up relatively close to. I enjoy a nice hike in the woods, and love playing the kid...climbing trees, sliding down hills, jumping creeks. I just seem to enjoy myself most when I come home tired, bruised, scratched and punctured. Right now, nearly a week after our most recent caching trip, I'm sporting a bruise the size of a baseball, several smaller bruises and scrapes, and have limited use of my right shoulder. Good times, good times!

We stopped by the bro in law's house one night. He was talkin about something like treasure hunting, a GPSr, and the internet. I got excited. We ran out to the book store and got a book on geocaching. The next day we bought our first unit and away we went. Several units later, PDA's, new laptop.....nawwww we're not hooked.

I took 2 TBs to China on a business trip last year. When I got there the only cache in town was a micro. I did find the cache and sign the log, then logged the TBs in and back out, took some photos of them at some scenic local spots, and brought them back home with me and dropped them in the US. I don't feel like I cheated anyone. The TB's did go to China, they were with me when I found the cache, and they went with me sightseeing all over the city. When I went to India earlier this year I took a TB with me. I did find a cache large enough to hold the TB, so I dropped it there and left it.

I've occasionally logged a discovery if I see that a TB has been sitting in one cache for a long time without moving, and I don't plan to or are unable to move it along myself. I'm sure we're all well familiar with travel bugs that are listed as being in a cache, but that are not really there. Discovering a TB lets the owner know that the TB is still there and all is well.

I normally don't like to hold bugs for more than a week or two, but if I know I'll be travelling soon I'll hold them longer because I figure it's more fun if they wait a while and travel some distance than if they just keep getting passed around the same local area. I currently have several bugs I've been holding onto for about a month, and I'll be travelling for the next two weeks, dropping them as I go.

We are a couple with one ID. Usually we go caching together. Sometimes one of us goes caching alone when the other is unavailable. We have occasionally both cached simultaneously in different places if one of us is travelling, but we've never tried to divide just to drive up numbers. What would be the point? It's not about the numbers, it's about having a good time. I really don't understand why people care how many cache finds somebody else racks up. I don't see geocaching as a competitive sport. It's a hobby, and the fun is in the hunt - not the stats.