A Cache Made In Heaven?

[+MorningWhisper]

I recently posted a question asking "What is your best find to date?" To which someone responded, "I've got you all beat. I met my girlfriend/future wife at a cache." What a precious find this man came across.

 

Are there any other similar stories? My first find, and hide, was with my fiance' and I look forward to so many more with this wonderful man.

 

Is this a hobby/sport/adventure for families? Married couples? Singles looking for...........?

 

Who do you Geocache with?

[The Junkyard Dogs]

I cache with the wife and kids. Love the family time.

[twjolson & Kay]

I recently posted a question asking "What is your best find to date?" To which someone responded, "I've got you all beat. I met my girlfriend/future wife at a cache." What a precious find this man came across.

Let's see if he's still saying that 20-30 years from now!!!

[+ruhereyet]

I met my boyfriend through caching back in January. Chances are, we'll have a geocaching event to 'tie the knot' later this fall. I guess I'd have to say that was the best thing I've ever found.

 

Prior to this, I'd been caching with my two young sons. I needed a way to get them out of the house (since they're completely addicted to video games). Now, not only do we cache a lot more, but they have a great male role-model in their lives.

 

Seems to be a perk for all three of us.

[+briansnat]

There I was at an event cache. A a boy with a canoe and no paddle. And this girl with a paddle and no canoe shows up....wait, that was Mopar.

[+Divine]

There I was at an event cache. A a boy with a canoe and no paddle. And this girl with a paddle and no canoe shows up....wait, that was Mopar.

Metaphorically speaking, 'a boy with a paddle' and 'a girl with a canoe' sounds somehow more correct, IMO.

[+Apples 2 Apples]

To make a long story short (longer version in Alias thread), my girl friend and I have been geocaching almost since we started dating. Asking her to marry me this July,... will probably incorporate geocaching into it somehow,... or at least GPS usage. I am making her do a single person version of The Amazing Race, the clues or rewards she collects will lead her to the time / place where I pop the question.

 

So far from reading the logs and the cachers we have met. It seems to be a pretty even split between couples and singles. But I don't think there are as many family cachers in my general vicinity as in others.

[+Team Benhamtroll]

I cache with my wife and daughter all the time. My wife gets jealous if I go solo, and makes sure I don't look for caches that she wants to do . . .

 

I've been playing with the idea of setting up a romantice cache-away with her, setting up something nice and secluded with coordinates, and surprising her . . .

 

As for popping the question with geocaching, it's be pretty cool to hide the ring somewhere. But just think of the trauma if it got muggled . . .

[+Apples 2 Apples]

I've been playing with the idea of setting up a romantice cache-away with her, setting up something nice and secluded with coordinates, and surprising her . . .

 

As for popping the question with geocaching, it's be pretty cool to hide the ring somewhere. But just think of the trauma if it got muggled . . .

Oh God! Don't make me think of that!

 

Actually I don't think I ever would have left the ring hidden anywhere for that specific reason.

 

What do you mean by romance cache-away?

 

We are the same way, don't cache without each other I mean.

 

Do other couples have this arrangment? No caching without the other?

[Bryan]

On November 18, 2001, Jeremy convinced me to join him at this Geocaching event:

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...&log=y&decrypt=

 

I was fortunate enough to meet Ddog-n-Ma at the event.

 

On 2/20/04, n-Ma and I got engaged. A couple of hours later, we stopped by this cache:

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...&log=y&decrypt=

 

We were married in August 2004 a few blocks away from this cache:

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...66-4c49e79b1a41

 

Thanks Jeremy and thanks Geocaching!

[+CT Trampers]

My wife and I were married October 12th, 2001 on the summit of Bear Mt. in Ct.

 

While waiting for the ceremony to begin, my best man discovered a Geocache in a nearby spruce tree.

 

It seemed like an interesting thing, so we wrote down the web address, and after our honeymoon checked out the site. We found a few without a GPSR, but we just so happened to have a gift certificate to REI that we received as a wedding present. Our first Etrex was purchased, and we are still going strong...

 

Thanks for the wedding gift, Geogods!

[+Apples 2 Apples]

My wife and I were married October 12th, 2001 on the summit of Bear Mt. in Ct.

 

While waiting for the ceremony to begin, my best man discovered a Geocache in a nearby spruce tree.

 

It seemed like an interesting thing, so we wrote down the web address, and after our honeymoon checked out the site. We found a few without a GPSR, but we just so happened to have a gift certificate to REI that we received as a wedding present. Our first Etrex was purchased, and we are still going strong...

 

Thanks for the wedding gift, Geogods!

Thats an awesome way to discover geocaching!

[KBoyKool]

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As for popping the question with geocaching, it's be pretty cool to hide the ring somewhere. But just think of the trauma if it got muggled . . .

Before I got to this post, I was thinking the same thing.

 

After I read this post, I remembered the trick of a former roommate. He was proposing on a pier and planned to "accidentally" drop the ring into the water for dramatic effect. He went to a department store and bought a fake ring for $7 to use as the decoy. It was probably cubic zirc. and painted metal.

 

One might somehow employ this concept into the "private geocache" scenario.

 

Hope this stimulates some brainstorming,

Kenny

[AZcachemeister]

I met my soon-to-be wife via a cache I placed.

She hid a temporary multi that led me to her, for our first face-to-face meeting. After which we cached together until about 0100 Hrs.

We will soon be married at a remote cache location (very dramatic scenery), and a fellow geocacher will be performing the ceremony!

We are still deciding whether to announce an event nearby the wedding site, host one 'in town', or maybe both...

[+Apples 2 Apples]

One might somehow employ this concept into the "private geocache" scenario.

 

It most certainly has!!!!!!

 

Thanks for the idea!

[KBoyKool]

I met my soon-to-be wife via a cache I placed.

She hid a temporary multi that led me to her, for our first face-to-face meeting. After which we cached together until about 0100 Hrs.

We will soon be married at a remote cache location (very dramatic scenery), and a fellow geocacher will be performing the ceremony! 

We are still deciding whether to announce an event nearby the wedding site, host one 'in town', or maybe both...

You should send out wedding invitations with only the date, time and coordinates. ;+)

 

Edit: remove brain spasm. 5/23

Edited May 23, 2005 by KBoyKool

[AZcachemeister]

You send send out wedding invitations with only the date, time and coordinates.  ;+)

Some non-cachers will be invited, so we'll have to make it easier for them...

[+Phobos+Demos]

Demos and I have been together for several years now but it was not until this last X-mas that we learned about Geocaching from a coworker. GCing was just what we needed, we had both been looking for a good outdoors sport that could be played at our pace together w/out much competition.

 

GCing also makes a great excuse to leave town for a night or two, we get to spend real time w/ each other, see places we would have never seen, and add a few GC's to our find list. We also try not to put TOO much emphasis on how many we find. We tried to do a lot of caches in one day and just ended up stressing out.

 

I don't know if I will propose to her by a personal geocache but I know we will go on a honeymoon that involves geocaching.

[+bthomas]

Visitors to San Francisco at GCN4MG.