+AustinSweetnSour Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 I was wondering if anyone has met their significant other through geocaching? At events? Or even possibly while caching? Or maybe you have a romantic geocaching story? I'd love to hear them!! Quote Link to comment
magellan315 Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Others will have better details, Snoogans met his wife through Geocaching and GeoHo met her husband through Geocaching. Their wedding was an event cache. Quote Link to comment
+TexasGringo Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Maybe a divorce due to Geocaching. Quote Link to comment
+KJcachers Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 I love my new PN-20 Quote Link to comment
+TheAlabamaRambler Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 NurseDave and Beckerbuns, Joefrog and Chelemybel, January14 and Searching4Fun and the aforementioned cachers are but a few who can blame their entwinement on geocaching! Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Quite a few actually. Quote Link to comment
+Team_CSG Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 (edited) Sonny and Sandy from podcacher.com have a interesting story Edited January 30, 2008 by arthurat Quote Link to comment
+ReadyOrNot Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 I got out of my car. It was a very hot day, 105 to be exact. I slid my GPS out of my pocket and proceeded to walk into the woods. I came across a clearing in the woods where I noticed a women sun bathing wearing nothing but her GPS (70's music starts playing).... Quote Link to comment
+Team Cotati Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 More than you might imagine. Quote Link to comment
+Stunod Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 It would never happen. Quote Link to comment
+Moose Mob Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 It would never happen. Yeah, you're funny! Stunod's Log CarleenP's Log Quote Link to comment
+TheAlabamaRambler Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 It would never happen. Yeah, you're funny! Stunod's Log CarleenP's Log Wow, I totally missed hearing about this one. I don't think I've met Stunod but Carleen rocks! Congrats you two! Quote Link to comment
+DanOCan Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Our local Geocaching romance story as detailed in a couple of caches: Judy Wan Kenobi and Cymbc Engagement cache Not Niagara Falls Honeymoon Cache Quote Link to comment
magellan315 Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 It would never happen. Yeah, you're funny! Stunod's Log CarleenP's Log I don't think to many cachers will be able to log tht cache in quite that manner. Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Lets see.... Judy Wan Kenobi and Cymbc Mopar and Geo Ho CarleenP and Stunod NurseDave and Beckerbuns Joefrog and Chelemybel January14 and Searching4Fun Special Ed and Fallenfairy I'm sure there are more. Quote Link to comment
IronMaiden Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Know of a few couples that met through geocaching. Then I know a couple of women cachers that wanted to interfere in a marriage and got their butts kicked by the wife, via a nasty e-mail. Nothing else needs to be said. I'm just happy for the couples that are happy cachers like us!!!! Quote Link to comment
+hydnsek Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Let's not forget two of Groundspeak's favorite employees: Rothstafari and Hydee. They celebrated their fifth anniversary of meeting (at a caching event) last year with a cool event and coin. Quote Link to comment
+Bad_CRC Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 I know a couple of women cachers that wanted to interfere in a marriage and got their butts kicked by the wife, via a nasty e-mail. that sounds like a more interesting story. Quote Link to comment
+carleenp Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 It would never happen. Yeah, you're funny! Stunod's Log CarleenP's Log Wow, I totally missed hearing about this one. I don't think I've met Stunod but Carleen rocks! Congrats you two! Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 It would never happen. Yeah, you're funny! Stunod's Log CarleenP's Log I don't think to many cachers will be able to log that cache in quite that manner. The Snoogstress and I plan to do the drive-up version on our way to GW6. We already got married last year, but we plan to do it again for fun. BTW- JoGPS and 9Key by way of pre-planning GW4 are indirectly responsible for this happening: I don't think I could ever thank them enough. Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 (edited) Or maybe you have a romantic geocaching story? I'd love to hear them!! Maybe I should explain my earlier post..... And since no one has really told their story yet.... I decided to go to GW3 after hearing Mustard Devil rave about GW2 and lament not being able to go to GW3. I went to GW3 and had an AWESOME time! Lots of other stuff happened that would make this post digress too far, but let's just say I had big FUN. At the end of the event it was a great big mutual admiration society among the lingerers and during that time Joe told me it might be a good idea for Texas (of which I was the only representative of our local organization) to put in a bid for GW4. I said that I would take that suggestion to our leaders of sorts and the folks that could pull an event of this scale off, the TxGA. Namely 9Key who did a great deal of the actual work. So, 9key started a Yahoo group to get a bid together...... Wellll, I don't care for the user unfriendly way Yahoo groups work and after becoming particularly frustrated I went on a bit of a rant about it. I mean here we had a perfectly fine forum (texasgeocaching.com) and we were using a crappy Yahoo group. So I calmed down the next day and while I waited the agonizingly long time it took for posts to appear, I clicked on an ad for Yahoo Personals on a whim, because the picture was of a cute girl and it said she lived in my zipcode. Seriously, I was just bored. Anyhoo, there were these three girls that I thought I'd like to talk to and for good measure I fired off a free icebreaker to about a dozen others. I hafta mention that I basically cut and pasted my geocaching profile and a pic of me and Cujo taken by Yuaza Cat the night before GW3. I asked to meet a girl who geocaches or at least had geocaching aptitude. One of the first 3 girls that I liked emailed me back right away and from what she said, we had a great deal in common. Bonus, she worked at REI with a good friend and fellow geocacher known as CherokeeCacher. Welllll, as I said, I did this on a whim, since I was scheduled to leave for my annual 6 week trip home to the Eastern Sierra, but we had spent so much time talking that I just HAD to meet her before I left. The first date was great and a few days later she made me a care package to take on my trip. After just over two weeks on my trip we had burned through over 2,000 minutes on my phone card and that's not counting what she put on hers. I packed up my stuff and went home 3 weeks early to spend some time with her because she was set to go home on vacation for 2 weeks just 4 days after I got back if I had taken my full amount of time off. When I got home, my AC was broken (July in Texas. It was freakin HOTTT! That's why I LEAVE.) and she suggested I come over. Welllll, I pretty much never left. The night before GW4, almost a year after we met, I proposed to her, in our camp, after hosting the Meet & Greet, and while wearing a coconut bra and Hawaiian lei. We were married 10 months later and our little cacher came along on 12/12/07. An interesting aside note: While the Snoogstress DID have geocaching aptitude, she totally doesn't care for the activity in practice. She loves the events. Especially when an event involves camping, but she swears she'll never be a cacher. So, our son has been born half muggle. At best, he's a Halfblood Prince of geocaching. He certainly wouldn't be here if it wasn't for geocaching, but mostly because Joe made a polite suggestion and Will (9key) picked a discussion venue that easily bored me. There's probably a cautionary lesson in there somewhere. But hey, I get 30% off everything I buy at REI and 50% off anything with the REI brand name. (And NO, I won't buy anything for you with my REI spouse discount.) Edited January 31, 2008 by Snoogans Quote Link to comment
+AustinSweetnSour Posted January 31, 2008 Author Share Posted January 31, 2008 Thank you for a great story, Snoogans! It's nice to know that geocaching can result in more than just poison ivy & smileys! The little one is absolutely gorgeous! Quote Link to comment
magellan315 Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 (edited) Here are the details for GeoHo and Mopar. The wedding/event cache. Here is the original thread that shows how they met and the courtship, its a classic. Scroll down for Mopars first courtship post. Edited January 31, 2008 by magellan315 Quote Link to comment
+WalruZ Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 BuckyD & I met at an event and it was love at first find. TeamAlamo put out a cache, but there's nothing else commemorative. All that finding and hiding resulted in Geo Baby. (click on her gallery page!) Quote Link to comment
Koda and Meesa Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 (edited) Podcacher just did a great episode on this exact topic. In fact there is an interview with Meesa and I, we met through geocaching. There is also a very special question I ask Meesa at the end of the interview . Check out the episode here: <link removed>Show 152 Edit: sorry, I had to remove the link to commercial site. <ducks and runs> Edited February 12, 2008 by Moose Mob Quote Link to comment
Koda and Meesa Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Edit: sorry, I had to remove the link to commercial site. <ducks and runs> Either way. You all know where to find PODCACHER Show #152. Quote Link to comment
+mollymonster Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 My boyfriend and I did not meet while geocaching, but it was actually his invitation for me to go with him to get his GPS that started our friendship. And then he started taking me caching. Because we were in an intense service program at the time, it was the only real alone time we got together, and it started our relationship. It's taken us a lot of cool places and on a lot of cool adventures together. It's neat to hear people's stories of how they met through geocaching, too. Quote Link to comment
+Nov64 Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 While I met my boyfriend through WheresGeorge, my BF was a GeoCacher ~ he been caching since 2002 and have been caching sine 2005. Last year, February 15, I was caching my way to a WG gathering Salina, KS from Willis, TX. trying to get as many TX counties along the way. It was after dark by the time I got to the TX-OK border. I knew that my friend was staying at hotel (he was going to the WG gathering, too) just over the OK border, so I stopped there for the night and called my friend and we had dinner and as they say the rest is history. So, caching did lead to romance. Quote Link to comment
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