Weekend of Caching

We geocached this weekend…like what else is new right?? We now have over 900 finds….just over 100 of those are FTFs. FTF is “First to Find”. That is something to brag about! You gotta be first....well we think so.
To do so…yes we have gone out late at night in our jammers. I blame this behavior on empty nest syndrome. When you don’t have small children to tend to…well you do silly things.

So this weekend we tried to go up higher in elevation in hopes it was cooler. It was a little bit cooler. Got a nice sunburned since we had the top of the jeep off….yeah note to self…SUNSCREEN!!

Hooked on Caching!

We are huge fans of a "hobby" called Geocaching . In essence we spend lots of money on "tools" such as a GPS and a PDA to send us out to search for a treasure, which is the equivilant of McDonalds toys and other unnecessary stuff tucked into various types of containers that have been hidden in the city or the woods by other geocachers.

For us it isnt about what the container holds, it is more about the hunt and making the find....and to be FTF (first to find) is the best find of all.

We began this "hobby" to get out of the house on the weekends, but then shelved it when 2007 turned out to be more tragic than I could handle. We have since picked it back up FULL FORCE, as it is now pretty much the only thing that can get me out of the house. We have now pretty much become addicts. My friends think we need to find a Cachers Anonymous....but surely no such thing could exist, because a true cacher would think there is nothing wrong with this behaviour.

I spend hours online, searching, planning our weekend routes, thinking of a new cache to create. We are obsessive and try to convince all of our family and friends that geocaching is the best thing EVER, and we pretty much talk about nothing but geocaching.

So yeah, we are hooked on caching...and see nothing wrong with this.