Take Me Back

[+Criminal]

Take me back, before it was all so complicated

Before it was so much work to have fun

Back to when I could play like a child as an adult

Before glass was deadly and inanimate boxes animate

 

Take me way back to the beginning

When a cache could accommodate a cut-in-half pencil

When the forests were safe enough on their own

Without the wise telling me how to do it safer

 

Remember that? Remember when it was fun?

Nobody was going to sue me for their own ineptitude

Nobody told me how to make my fun funner

Nobody helped me understand what I understood

 

Were you there when it was young and new?

Were you taken unknowingly to fun exciting places?

Did someone peak your curiosity in a place you never knew?

Did the view take your breath away?

 

Do you remember why you started to play?

Your first cache, your first cache faux pas?

And the world continued to turn nonetheless

Take me back, please, before I say Fudge the whole thing...

[+carleenp]

I love caching. No worries. Ignore the angst and go have fun!

[vagabond]

I'd have to agree with you Criminal

[+JeepCachr]

Criminal I don't get it. If you don't like the forums why do you read them? My brother has been a cacher for a while and is blissfully ignorant of all the controversy going on in the forums. There are far more people playing the game than the vocal few here in the forums.

[+Renegade Knight]

Today at lunch after responding to a slam in the forums I drove about 5 minutes to a trailhead and hiked up the trail into a small canyon and confirmed a cache location for Night Stalker. The spring grass was growing green and a thunderstorm was rolling in. The storm was two miles away but flashing lighting and blustering with thunder. I took the time to paint the picture in the log then eased my way back to work arriving just in time.

 

There is no need to go back because I never left.

[+bons]

Today I disobeyed every speed limit and wondered what the heck R.K's friend was doing in Omaha, especially when they didn't ask anyone if they wanted to have a beer.

 

I logged a couple caches, found the perfect site for a cache that's been sitting in my dining room for over a month, and all in my spare time.

 

Life is good.

Edited April 7, 2004 by bons

[+flask]

I took the time to paint the picture in the log then eased my way back to work arriving just in time.

 

you carry paints with you when you cache? that's hardcore.

[+Team Flying Dachshund]

We should make this Geocachings unnoffiacal song

[+Criminal]

Criminal I don't get it. If you don't like the forums why do you read them? My brother has been a cacher for a while and is blissfully ignorant of all the controversy going on in the forums. There are far more people playing the game than the vocal few here in the forums.

What makes you think this is about the forums? I didn't make mention of them, and really, nothing about them has changed all that much.

 

It's about geocaching, what it was when I started, what it is now, and the direction it's heading.

[Cholo]

The spring grass was growing green and a thunderstorm was rolling in. The storm was two miles away but flashing lighting and blustering with thunder.

How long before this became a dark and stormy night?

[+leatherman]

Take me back, please, before I say Fudge the whole thing...

ROTFLMAO!

[Tahosa and Sons]

It's about geocaching, what it was when I started, what it is now, and the direction it's heading.

Would that direction be an azimuth, that is True or Magnetic?

[+carleenp]

Today I disobeyed every speed limit and wondered what the heck R.K's friend was doing in Omaha, especially when they didn't ask anyone if they wanted to have a beer.

 

I logged a couple caches, found the perfect site for a cache that's been sitting in my dining room for over a month, and all in my spare time.

 

Life is good.

Who was in Omaha, and why didn't this become a beer fest? I need beer fest excuses!

[mistaken4sisters]

Hey all,

I read Criminal's post last night and wanted to sleep on it before replying. Here goes:

 

I had the privilege of growing in the wilds of West Virginia. We had 15 acres of undeveloped forest for a backyard and the National Forest was across the little one lane road. I spent all four seasons in the woods and the summer playing in the creek. My parents and I would take a long walk every October that went deep into the woods. We could see the colors of the leaves and collect winter pears that had fallen to the ground. To me, my soul belongs to those mountains.

 

Fast forward to now: I have also been blessed to live in New York City and now in Northern NJ. I love both places. When I lived in the city I explored the city with the same mentality I had as a child playing in the Monongahela Nat. Forest. I didn't have a GPSr then so I didn't cache. Now, I live in Clifton, NJ. We have some hills with some great parks. I live with and cache with someone who was born in Brooklyn and grew up here in Jersey. Caching has been a way for both of us to get in touch with our inner child.

 

That little 12 yr. old tomboy in me comes out, and she is fearless. I am afraid of heights, that little girl inside knows no fear. I have been to places in West Virginia and New Jersey that I never would have gone to or known were there. We like to cache, to go outside, to work on solving a problem together, and to write about some of the nonsense that we encounter (particularly me).

 

Some interesting things we have learned: There is a really large set of waterfalls in downtown Paterson, NJ, giant, power-generating windmills on top of a mountain can be frightening when you come around a curve and there they are, you can step across the Potomac river at one point, don't sshh! a deer, and there are no flat parks in West Virginia.

As always,

happy hunting

shellie of Mistaken4Sisters

[+Renegade Knight]

Night Stalker is in Omaha. I don't think his world view of cachers has moved beyond locals to where it would occure to him that there is beer to be had when he's on the road. Plus a brutal schedule dampen the free time. That's no reason not to to email and bug him though. If he can find a cache he can find a beer.

[+Doc-Dean]

Its still fun after 200+ caches...

 

When the NHF rule kicks in is when I stop and take a break for awhile.

[+beejay&esskay]

When the NHF rule kicks in is when I stop and take a break for awhile.

NHF?

 

I must have missed something.

[+carleenp]

Hey all,

I read Criminal's post last night and wanted to sleep on it before replying. Here goes:

 

Very nice story! Thanks!

[+Sagefox]

Your first cache, your first cache faux pas?

And the world continued to turn nonetheless

Take me back, please, before I say Fudge the whole thing...

I heard that people in Washington State are still having fun geocaching. I always do when I'm there.

 

We started geocaching late in the early-middle period of geocaching, November 2001. 700 finds, 100 placements, 250 benchmarks later it is still as much fun and adventure as it ever was.

 

Maybe it is because we travel a lot and are not restricted to one urban area but I see no problems that have made me feel that the sport is substantially different now. It was early and new back then and we knew all caches and tb's on a first name basis. But the physical and mental challenge of ferreting out "the cache" is still the same.

[+Stunod]

Gross...I read the title/subtitle of this thread as "Take Me Back Waxing"

Edited April 7, 2004 by Stunod

[+Lazyboy & Mitey Mite]

I hear ya Criminal but there's no going back. It's not the same as it was during simplier times, but it's better than watching Springer

[+Lazyboy & Mitey Mite]

Sometimes waxing a back is a good thing

[+leatherman]

I heard that people in Washington State are still having fun geocaching. I always do when I'm there.

Everyone except Criminal.

[Warbones]

I just started so I imagine I am missing nothing. I still can't get over the weird feeling of walking in circles and trying to not be seen.

[+Criminal]

I heard that people in Washington State are still having fun geocaching.  I always do when I'm there.

Everyone except Criminal.

I just gotta get away from the bison-tube-in-a-park caches.....

 

The weekend plans should chase away the melancholia though.

[+leatherman]

I just gotta get away from the bison-tube-in-a-park caches.....

I hear you there Bro.

I started generating non-micro queries. They are over half of the caches in the area now. My queries were shrinking down to nothing. I don't enjoy the micros since Dr Koska went MIA.

[+Geo Ho]

Nothing has changed or been implemented that has impeded or diminished my love and enthusiasm for the game of Geocaching. I just roll with the punches, go with the flow and ingnor the idiocracy. This is my philosophy for most things in my life.

 

 

Be free . . . relax . . . be happy!!

 

 

You, too, will be assimilated! Resistance is futile!

 

 

Happy caching and stuff!

[+Doc-Dean]

NHF?

 

I must have missed something.

NHF = Not Having Fun!

[Cholo]

ingnor the idiocracy

He would have been just as famous a Viking as Eric the Red or Hagar the Horrible, if not for a bad case of hydrophobia.

[+Ish-n-Isha]

Take me back, before it was all so complicated

Before it was so much work to have fun

Back to when I could play like a child as an adult

Before glass was deadly and inanimate boxes animate

 

Take me way back to the beginning

When a cache could accommodate a cut-in-half pencil

When the forests were safe enough on their own

Without the wise telling me how to do it safer

 

Remember that? Remember when it was fun?

Nobody was going to sue me for their own ineptitude

Nobody told me how to make my fun funner

Nobody helped me understand what I understood

 

Were you there when it was young and new?

Were you taken unknowingly to fun exciting places?

Did someone peak your curiosity in a place you never knew?

Did the view take your breath away?

 

Do you remember why you started to play?

Your first cache, your first cache faux pas?

And the world continued to turn nonetheless

Take me back, please, before I say Fudge the whole thing...

I have never more agreed with you than now. After reading the first page of posts its clear the concept you were waxong so elequently about sailed over more than a few heads.

Again, DITTOS and well said.

[bug and snake]

Yeah... *sigh* I&I, the mere fact that you were able to post what you did has proved the point.

 

Well waxed Mr. C..... And lyrical it was too. *sigh - again*