Ed Rad

This was a really funny thread to read. I just had to get my 2 cents in here.... 1.Way too many extra miles on the car... 2.Getting excited about quitting my job in July... More caching time!! 3.Took a vacation and planned a 3 day caching trip to Wisconsin. Cached until after midnight the first night! Sleep, we don't need no stinkin' sleep!! 4. Upon returning from the trip, hit a few more cached since they were on the way home from our meeting place. 5. My bedroom is cluttered with geocaching item of all sorts. 6. I carry my GPSr with me wherever I go just in case there is a cache nearby. 7. Look at my user name..Geogeek65..bestowed upon me by my girlfriend. I thik she hit it right on the head! 8. Have been late for work because I was out hiding or hunting caches. 9. The colors Green, Yellow, Blue and Orange have become my favorites. 10. Applied for a vanity plate for the car that reads....GEOGEEK 11. Have woken up from a dead sleep with a cache idea. 12. A hike of .3 miles or less is considered a "drive up". 13. Bought a dog just so I can have a companion when caching. (Geddy the caching k9) 14. When I die, I have requested that my wake be listed as a Cache Event and my final coordinates be listed on my gravestone. I'm sure there are my more but I think I'll stop there. You all get the jist....I'm obsessed!

Well, it appears that Car#2112 was given bad directions and headed northeast where it has stalled. Where did we go wrong??? The kids are distraught...help!! Anybody....Please!!! LOL!! Has anybody seen this car?? Car#2112

The Radakovitz-Family Racing team has sent in our entry. See our car at: Car #2112 Good Luck to all!! [This message was edited by Geogeek65 on February 20, 2003 at 11:56 PM.]

Tried my first caches in the snow on Thanksgiving day. It does make it more challenging but it also can be frustrating. Variety is good so I'll take the cold winter days along with the hot, humid bug filled summer days. As long as I'm caching, life is good!

I have three kids 8,11 &13 years old. We have a tradition of leaving a small bag of baseball cards plus an item or two. When I package up the cards I alway make sure to slip in one that is worth a few bucks and every now and then one that has some real value say in the $20 plus range. I find that the local dollar store is a good place to shop for cache items. Bags of the little green army men are a favorite of alot of kids. You can find things an adult could use there also and all of $1 per item. Once a month we will go there and spend about $10 so we have good items to leave. I find that old paperback books (especially the classics) are great items also. They can be had for next to nothing at garage sales. Every book I have ever left in a cache has been taken by somebody. Just thought I would share some ideas.

I decided to Geocache after reading about it in the local paper on day. I get my kids on the weekends and thought it would be a neat way to spend time with them doing something a little different. The first one we chose to do was a multi-cache so it turned into a 4 hour adventure. It was funny, the four of us roaming around blindly. I had never used a GPS and I was learning as I went along. When we did find it the kids were thrilled and we were hooked. We went from doing one or two a day to cramming in as many as possible. We eventually graduated to creating our first cache. We were all excited when we recieved the first e-mail notifying us that it had been found. As far as memories of our firsts go, we decided when we first started to keep a scrapbook of all our adventures. I take the digital camera out with us and shoot plenty of pictures of the kids. We print out the cache page and write about our adventure in more detail than what we post on the log. We have a map of the Chicago area at home and we have marked the locations of the caches we found. We have dragged a few friends out with us and they seemed to enjoy it also. This is starting to get long winded so I'll end it here.