Hello Everyone!
We have only been caching for about 3 months, and my girlfriend and I are pretty addicted to it. We began wondering how everyone first heard about geocaching. Since we are finding out more and more, that not many people out there know what it is.
We first heard about geocaching, on Law & Order: Criminal Intent (believe it or not). It was an old episode, and one which we had seen some time before, but this time for some reason we were intrigued to find out more about caching.
I'm really into the outdoors, hiking, and camping. However, my girlfriend would rather stay away from getting dirty, or encountering insects or heaven forbid a spider! So when she heard about geocaching, she said that is something she would be interested in doing. And that night, we did a seach and found the Geocaching website. The first weekend we did it, we were hooked! And then went out and bought a bunch of gadgets to go along with the hobby. And my girlfriend surprised me by being totally into it and doesn't even care about getting dirty or taking the hard way to the cache.
If it wasn't for the Law & Order episode, I'm not sure if we would have come across the activity. But I'm really glad we did, it's something we can both enjoy and do together. Now that we know what caching is, we've started coming across the hobby more and more. I just saw an ad for Garmin in a backpacking magazine promoting geocaching. And it makes me wonder how many times in the past I came across geocaching but never took the time to wonder what it was.
So how did everyone else first hear about geocaching?
