Funny Story, this might inspire you.....

[Goat6500]

Last November, I was flipping through an old copy of "Business Week" in the John at work and read an article it had about Geocaching. I immediately thought of my best friend, Pitufo (his current geocaching username). Since he's been a little kid, Pitufo has been burying Time Capsules at various locations, which he will go and dig up, himself, years later. I asked him what the point was and he replied, "Well Goat6500 (my current geocaching username), everyone wants to find buried treasure. The problem is that most of the cool stuff has already been found. If you want that exhilarating feeling of finding buried loot, you gotta bury it yourself because nobody else is going to do it." Or so he thought.

 

First, his fiancé and I chipped in and we got him an Etrex for Christmas. In the box, we placed the Etrex and a note with GPS co-ordinates with vague instructions to go there on New Years Day. When he opened his present Christmas morning, he was nonplussed to say the least. He is not a fan of hi-tech gadgets at all and had no idea what he would use a Global Positioning System for other than to follow these instructions.

 

On Jan 1st at 8 A.M. while I was sleeping off a good New Years celebration, Pitufo was eagerly dragging his half-asleep fiancé and their dog through the woods and over a cliff to my cache. He found his “surprise” after a few minutes of searching and feverishly ripped open the sealed envelope hidden inside a discarded tire. Inside was a laminated photo I took of Pitufo naked when he got drunk and streaked at his dad’s annual 4th of July celebration earlier that year. He absolutely DESPISES the photo(and honestly, it does look pretty bad) and has done everything in his power to obtain this blackmail-able material from me without success, so far. A note was with the photo that read, “Congratulations! You have just been geocaching. For more information, visit http://www.geocaching.com.”

 

Since this first find, Pitufo has gone nuts about geocaching. In the last six months, Pitufo has found over 50 caches and placed over twenty caches of his own with no sign of slowing down. I have enjoyed geocaching myself but more importantly, I am just glad that I could introduce my friend to something that he enjoys so much.

 

I am also glad that I have more than one copy of the skinny-dipping photo.

 

(Just thought I'd share this with you all, either for kicks or give you some ideas. Oh, and check out out caches in Central Ohio if you're around. They're f'n sweet!)

[+TresOkies]

Now, that's the spirit!

 

My extended family thought I was nuts playing these GPS games. I put together a little caching adventure for them all as the last "present" for Christmas last year. Two teams, two GPS's racing through a multi-leg course I laid out the day before. Both teams arrived at the final spot within a minute of each other. To see them running over a frozen wheat field looking for the final stash was priceless. They all understand my obsession now.

 

http://www.ericcloninger.com/geocaching/goosechase/index.php

 

-E

 

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[+GeoVamp]

YOUR SOOO COOL,YOUR POST MADE ME LAUGH SOOO HARD

YOU DA CACHER--WISH YOU WHERE MY FRIEND.

 

I would follow my GPS to the gates of Hell if it pointed that way.

[+GeoVamp]

YOUR SOOO COOL,YOUR POST MADE ME LAUGH SOOO HARD

YOU DA CACHER--WISH YOU WHERE MY FRIEND.

 

I would follow my GPS to the gates of Hell if it pointed that way.

[+Web-ling]

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Originally posted by Goat6500:

...Inside was a laminated photo I took of Pitufo naked when he got drunk and streaked at his dad’s annual 4th of July celebration earlier that year. He absolutely DESPISES the photo(and honestly, it does look pretty bad) and has done everything in his power to obtain this blackmail-able material from me without success, so far. A note was with the photo that read, “Congratulations! You have just been geocaching. For more information, visit http://www.geocaching.com.”

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I bet he's glad he got there before some other cacher did...

 

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(Just thought I'd share this with you all, either for kicks or give you some ideas. Oh, and check out out caches in Central Ohio if you're around. They're f'n sweet!)

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Just did 8 caches in Columbus last week while visiting the in-laws, including one of pitufo's.

 

[+Web-ling]

quote:

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Originally posted by Goat6500:

...Inside was a laminated photo I took of Pitufo naked when he got drunk and streaked at his dad’s annual 4th of July celebration earlier that year. He absolutely DESPISES the photo(and honestly, it does look pretty bad) and has done everything in his power to obtain this blackmail-able material from me without success, so far. A note was with the photo that read, “Congratulations! You have just been geocaching. For more information, visit http://www.geocaching.com.”

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I bet he's glad he got there before some other cacher did...

 

quote:

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(Just thought I'd share this with you all, either for kicks or give you some ideas. Oh, and check out out caches in Central Ohio if you're around. They're f'n sweet!)

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Just did 8 caches in Columbus last week while visiting the in-laws, including one of pitufo's.

 

[Seeker BP]

Really cool story!! I am glad that you got him hooked, because we spend alot of time looking for Pitufos caches. They are some of the best out there!! Seeker BP Ashland OH TEAM E-TREX. PS. Your caches rock too Goat 6500!!

[+Lil Devil]

My wife wants to know the URL to that Naked Picture Cache

 

Cool story by the way.

 

Lil Devil

[+Lil Devil]

My wife wants to know the URL to that Naked Picture Cache

 

Cool story by the way.

 

Lil Devil