+RabidRabit Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 My wife and I set out today to find our first geocache. What a blast. We had so much with the first one that we went and did a second one. We are now hooked. Quote Link to comment
+CYBret Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 Congrats! Glad you had fun! Welcome to the game. Bret Quote Link to comment
+El Diablo Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 Welcome to our obsession. Unfortunately it only gets more obcessive. El Diablo Quote Link to comment
Tool Maniac Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 i just started this week too!!!!! It is great fun isn't it? I felt like a kid on my first one. I even climbed through snow and wind in 25 degree weather to do some more caching today. you're right Diable - obsessive. Quote Link to comment
+Kinetix Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 I wonder how many 'me too's we can get in this thread. Today was my first time out and my first find. The one I chose was very close to home and turned out to be fairly easy, but it was amusing. I prodded around nearly in thistles trying to find what turned out to be a microcache. Anyhow, I look forward to the next one for sure. Quote Link to comment
+Tallahassee Lassie Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 Welcome all of you to the sport/hobby/obsession. You are now in our power. You will never again be able to pass a local park without saying, "There's a geocache right over there." You go to Walmart just to look at containers, and the dollar store will see a marked increase in sales. While you may have just started with a GPS, soon you will find out about all the other cool stuff you "need" to cache. I won't say what, it'll be a surprise. Again welcome, and be sure to look for a local caching organization in your area. Quote Link to comment
+nekom Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 Congrats! I just discovered it earlier this year myself, April or so. It's taken me to the most amazing locations that I would have never otherwise stumbled upon, that's what got me hooked. I can't believe I wasn't made aware of this stuff sooner. Quote Link to comment
+michigansnorkelers Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 Ha Ha! Now we've got you. In the upcoming months, or maybe even weeks, you will notice a general decline in the care and upkeep of your home and vehicle as you spend more and more time hunting caches. Your job will be in jeopardy as you show up late for work after morning geocaching. You will return late from lunchtime geocaching. You will skip out of work early for evening geocaching. And you will start running out of excuses for taking sick days off in pursuit of this addiction. And on those few days when you put in a full day's work, you will be half asleep from attempting midnight FTFs. (You'll learn what that means soon enough!) Your social life will vanish. Your friends will wonder what has become of you. Loved ones will become increasingly concerned as you speak of FTFs, TNLNSL, TFTC, Latitude, Longitde, Pocket Queries, and other giberish. They will wonder about all this talk of "geodes" and "cash" in the woods. Your family budget will be upset by the creasing funds spent on gas. The local oil change will wonder why you see them once a month. Your car will begin to look like a teenager's room. It will be littered with wet and muddy clothing. There will be small toys strewn throughout the vehicle. And soon, you will no longer restrict your searches to daylight hours. Armed with flashlights, and later headlamps, you will set out in the dark. You will also become well known to local law enforcement who keep running into you on their night shifts. And, then it gets worse as the addiction sets in. Until... Until... You seek to recruit others! And so it goes. (note: The above statements were watered down considerably so as to not ward off new geocachers. Wait 'till you've logged your first 100 caches. Only THEN will you understand!) Quote Link to comment
+JennM Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 I'm still fairly new Did lots of reading before I got my GPSr and first day out was Labour Day. I now have 16 finds in 2 states and my sights set on one in Mexico IF I make it there in February Definitely addictive! And it gets us all OUTSIDE and doing something... gotta love it! Jenn Quote Link to comment
MelN2LilMen Posted January 1, 2007 Share Posted January 1, 2007 Hee hee ... me too. Well, my second was done today - and the first last... something or other. Got our GPS for the holidays too. My Lil Men and I are having a blast. Quote Link to comment
+GPSOkie Posted January 1, 2007 Share Posted January 1, 2007 As others have said, "welcome to the obsession!". I'm feeling a need to get out and cache tomorrow, myself. Quote Link to comment
+DammitNanet Posted January 1, 2007 Share Posted January 1, 2007 I'm an avid hiker and had never even heard of it until this past Friday night when I was reading the book for my handheld GPS. Went out in search of the first cache yesterday while on a 7 mile hike. This just adds another exiting dimension to our hikes. Can't wait to go for the next. Probably go to bed after the ball drops and up early to hunt for the next! I'm hooked and now completely focused on the next!! Quote Link to comment
+nytrostarss Posted January 1, 2007 Share Posted January 1, 2007 today was my first day on the hunt, found four different caches locally, and putting together my first, its tons of fun! Quote Link to comment
+Team GCHound Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 Good job and the games begin. Quote Link to comment
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