I don't do it, but the father in law does, and always seems to be filled with nerdy glee at whatever latest adventure. I'd love to give it a shot myself, if I didn't have all those umpty other things going on at once.
My dad did it for awhile, but then he got annoyed that people would steal stuff and not put anything in it's place.
However, and interesting story. He went to England, where his family lives and put an item in a cache. Months later he was in Phoenix and was checking up on where it was, and it was just a few miles away. No one had a GPS, so they couldn't pick it up, but when we went back a couple weeks later, it was gone, and I don't think it's turned up since. I think he's still rather peeved.
Yeah, I imagine there's always the downside of dealing with asshats. Like one site I was reading suggested putting a disposible camera into the box and asking people to take pictures of themselves. I couldn't help but think of jerks who would take rude photos as a practical joke.
My family did it for a while, mainly to sites of interest rather than for an item cache. Then we got too busy and haven't done anything with it in over a year. I enjoyed it while we were doing it, and some of the sites were educational for the kids.
(I see your "dork" and raise you a "total dork": I got into geocaching because Wil Wheaton does it and his descriptions of treks with his step-kids sounded fun. *headdesk*)
I don't geocache, but I do letterbox, which is sort of the geocaching precursor in a way (basically the same thing without the GPS and instead of taking and leaving random little trinkets, it's all homemade rubber stamps) and I love it!
[comes back from reading website] Interesting! Am I understanding it right that there should be two stamps involved: one that you bring with you to use on the box's log book, and one you find in the box to use on your own?
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good luck and enjoy if you try it out!
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However, and interesting story. He went to England, where his family lives and put an item in a cache. Months later he was in Phoenix and was checking up on where it was, and it was just a few miles away. No one had a GPS, so they couldn't pick it up, but when we went back a couple weeks later, it was gone, and I don't think it's turned up since. I think he's still rather peeved.
http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=45810
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(I see your "dork" and raise you a "total dork": I got into geocaching because Wil Wheaton does it and his descriptions of treks with his step-kids sounded fun. *headdesk*)
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Oh my god, that's Wesley Crusher!
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