All I Ever Needed To Know...

[+wandererrob]

50) Life is uncertain, bring extra batteries

[+mb3]

43) Make sure your car keys are in a safe place so they don't drop out of you pocket.

And your cell phone.

[+Lizzy]

51) Not all obsessions are bad ones (caching is a good one in my book)

[CacheNCarryMA]

1) Know where you came from. (waypoint the car)

2) Krylon Fusion is the best primer for plastic.

Edited February 7, 2006 by CacheNCarryMA

[+AMMOMAN]

50) Alwys read (and understand) the cache page before starting your search. The cache is not always at the listed coordinates.

[+JohnTee]

51) Here I am, and this is where I'm at!

 

JohnTee

[+Team Hemisphere Dancer]

52) I don't know where I'm going until I get there.

[+wandererrob]

53) Don't forget to stop and look around sometimes. It's a big world, you might miss it if you don't.

 

54) Fresh air is good for you

 

55) there's no problem that can't be helped by spending some time in the woods.

[+GrnXnham]

56) If there is one pile of doodoo in a 100 acre park, you will find a way to step in it.

[+spicy_victory]

To quote one my oldest and dearest friends...

You are never lost as long as you have gas in the tank!

 

Things we have learned while geocaching...

 

With perservance, you can over come any obsticle.

(I swear... there always seems to be some body of water standing between us and our cache!!)

 

Spend time with those you love... its the memories that bond you together.

(Cole and I are already using terms such as "Remember that bridge...)

 

Nothing warms the heart quite like a happy puppy!

(when your pups run up to you with that big ol grin after chasing an armadillo, you'll know what I mean...)

[+kdboiler]

The shortest route between the cache and the car is usually discovered on the way back to the car.

[+fox-and-the-hound]

61) The harder you strive to achieve something, the more rewarding it is to finally reach your goal.

 

62) There's a very good reason there are no straight lines in nature!

Edited February 10, 2006 by fox-and-the-hound

[+gcslim]

63) A new waterproof container will get my brain warmed up faster than anything else.

 

64) No matter how many times you looked there already, it won't hurt to look again.

[+Davispak]

65) magnetic key holders will also hold keys

 

66)The arrow isn't always right, put down the technology and use the senses you were given, you will be surprised what might turn up.

 

67) the water will always be deeper than the top of your waterproof boots

[Jettdude]

68)The easiest way is not always the best way, nor is it the way the GPS leads me

 

69)The most obvious spot is not always where the cache is

[+Davispak]

70) people will ignore the guy rummaging around in the bushes.

[klassenl]

71. Do a least a little bit of preparation.

[ocarina_21]

72. Find the obvious place, do a dance, spin, jump up and down, go 3 steps left, 3 steps backward, 3 steps right, and three steps forward, then look in the obvious place, and it'll be there.

 

73. 2 wrongs don't make a right, but 3 rights make a left.

 

74. If you can see the cache at a distance, and there is nothing but flat ground in front of you to get to the cache, there are badger holes, go around.

[+Confucius' Cat]

75. A film can in the woods is like a needle in a haystack, even with a "spoiler" clue. And it ceases to be fun after about ten minutes.

Edited February 12, 2006 by Confuse-A-Cat

[+Munin]

Learned while soaked to the bone, crouched under a pine in the midst of a raging downpour, trying to operate my PDA without taking it out of its ziploc because I needed to get the hint for a cache:

 

76. Revel in the absurdity of the moment.

 

Recognized one night as I snowshoed through the woods for three hours by headlamp so I could find a tupperware box, scribble on a notepad, and trade trinkets:

 

77. No matter how odd a hobby sounds, someone out there is having fun doing it.

 

Corollary to 77: If you have just spent three hours snowshoeing by headlamp to find a cache, you have forever forfeited all rights to make fun of anyone else's hobbies.

[+T-bone's Team]

76. Revel in the absurdity of the moment.

 

By far my favorite and completely sums up many of my experiences! Thanks!

[+stormcloud]

Theres no such thing as a DNF just a did not look hard enough.

[+Colorado Cacher]

"Only when the last tree is cut;

only when the last river is polluted;

only when the last fish is caught;

only then will they realize that you

cannot eat money."

 

Cree Proverb

Edited February 16, 2006 by Colorado Cacher

[+Davispak]

78. Snakes also like places where caches are hid

 

79. spiders build webs at head height ONLY

 

80. Centipedes will scare the Bejesus out of you when you turn over their hiding place.

 

81. Thorn bushes grow back instantly

[+sarhound]

82. If it doesn't bite you, sting you, or poke you, it's not a Texas cache.

 

Corollary to #82:

 

82a. The five inch mesquite thorns are always at eye level. Furthermore, they attack you when you least expect it.

[+piscatore]

83. My grandkids can talk all day long without saying a thing... and I love it.

[+T-bone's Team]

Keep'em goin'!

[+nekom]

84) Think before you act, dummy! Just because some rocks have been peacefully sitting for 50, 100 years or more doesn't mean they won't crumble when you try to climb them.

[+Drgnsrealm]

85) A million dollar satellite and a GPS can get you close, but it takes an innocent child’s eyes to find the best hidden caches.

Edited April 22, 2006 by Drgnsrealm

[+mudsneaker]

86. Always..always be sure your rechargeable flashlight is good before you find out it isnt wayy out in the middle of nowhere when doing night hunts. And carry a spare mini light just in case.

 

*BadAndy, I'm going to be chuckling all night after that story!

Edited April 22, 2006 by mudsneaker

[+sduck]

87. Acquiring and wearing spider webs gets less annoying after the first few of the day.

 

88. Film cans hidden in stone walls are the most annoying caches ever invented. And it's quaranteed that within 24 hours of when you give up and decide that it must be missing and post your dnf, someone will find it.

 

What can I say? I don't like stone wall caches! But I still hunt them...

[hannieIII]

Can any computer whiz collate all this, I want to wallpaper my room with them.

 

Until I started geocaching my belief was "Life is s..., then u die"

[+Wild Thing 73]

Here's mine....you add yours......

 

1.) If you don't give up, you just mnight find what you are looking for.

2.) It's the journey not the destination that makes life fun.

I may be lost, but I'm making good time

[+T-bone's Team]

Mas! Por Favor!

[+CheshireFrog]

89. There is an easier way to get to the cache, but I won't know that until I get there and see the fire road on the other side.

[+Night Stalker]

#90 Caches rated 1/1 were created to deceive us and make us feel inadequate.

 

Edited May 13, 2006 by Night Stalker

[+erikwillke]

79. spiders build webs at head height ONLY

 

Amen!

[+The Geocache Hunter]

91) After you have given up looking for the cache, pick up your backpack and sign the log.

[+The Geocache Hunter]

Have to add one more....

 

92) If you bring one pen you will lose it or it won't work. If you bring two pens you will lose one and the other won't work. If you bring three pens you'll never lose one and they will all work.

[+shuccrum]

It's fun knowing something other people (muggles) don't.

[+Team GeoBlast]

A) I never knew how unaware of my surroundings I used to be.

 

There might be something special at the end of the trail and there might not. In the end, it doesn't matter, because now I know.

 

C) Geocaching is an exercise in laughing at yourself.

[+sbeng]

93) Parking enforcement is watching..

[+Treasure Hunting Family]

94) Finally something we can do that actually requires us to get off the couch!

 

95) In my son's eyes he can do anything. (My son has a physical handicap but we go geocaching with no problems cause we want him to think he can do anything if you put your mind to it.)

Edited May 15, 2006 by Treasure Hunting Family

[+SmartSapper]

96. What you think you are looking for and what you find are usually two very different things. Surprises keep life interesting

 

97. Life is what happens when you turn off the TV. (and the Playstation, and *gasp* even the Internet!)

[+scavok]

98) You have to think outside the box in order to find it.

 

99) Pine trees are one of very few things that can be pokey and sticky

 

100) Finding a cache and hearing some one shout "What are you doing over there?!" produce the exact same amount of adrenaline.

[+MSea]

"Daisy's taste bad"

 

I showed my stepdaughter how to suck a clover. We were walking on a trail that was loaded on each side with daisys. She wondered what they tasted like, I told her probably not so good. She asked if she should try it like 10 times and each time I just said "I wouldn't" She was walking behind me and it was quiet for 10 seconds and then the sputtering and blecking started....

 

If you think "Hmmm, feels like something is crawling on my leg/head/back/arm/stomach" There probably is...

 

People will look at you funny if you walk into a gas station with sticks in your hair. I can drive 20 miles to the nearest gas station and not notice them til I get back in the car. Now when I see people with debris in theirs, I think FUN!

 

Six depleted batteries rearranged in ANY order will not become 2 good ones.

[+Sue Gremlin]

105) A true test of a love relationship is caching together. If you can cache together and maintain harmony without biting and hair pulling, you are a good match in life.

[+Sharnie]

I don't look at my surroundings the same anymore. I am thinking, "is there a cache out there somewhere" or "is that a good challenging place for a cache". That is all I think while out and about now.

 

Sharnie

[+Tallahassee Lassie]

107. No matter what anyone else says, writing "FTF" IS a little bit more of a rush that any other log.

[+boda]

108. On a long hike, you always remember to waypoint the car as you turn around to return to it.

 

109. Corollary to 89. When you find that road on the other side of the cache after the long trip up the cliff, your wife will be standing on it with a self-satisfied (and well-earned) smile on her face.

 

110. If you mention that there are many wonderful things about caching, both large and small; some killjoy will tell you how he or she hates micros and lamp posts and how the ammo can is the only way to go.

 

I may agree, at least in part, but just let it rest for once.