What’s your geocaching family tree? – Wisconsin Geocaching Association

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05/13/2004 at 2:37 am #1721308
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Keymaster
We don’t think anyone would disagree that geocaching is expanding at an ever increasing rate. How are all these people getting introduced to this subculture? Many are stumbling upon it, but word of mouth must be having a dramatic effect too.

So, what’s your lineage?

We trace ours back two “generations.”

Our geocaching “parents” are Educ8ors. Tim works with Jeff who described caching over lunch one day. That was enough to get us on board. Educ8ors were brought into the family by The Searchers, which makes Bill and Debbie our geocaching “grandparents.”

(Follow? The Searchers bring Educ8ors into the geocaching world. Educ8ors bring “What’s Next?” into the geocaching world.)

Educ8ors have a son who caches. (A REAL ACTUAL son!) He’s our geocaching “sibling.” A former co-worker of Jeff’s (Educ8ors) also is a part time geocacher, Fish Guy. He’d be another sibling.

Did we lose you?

Here’s where it gets fun! Carole’s parents, The Bald and the Beautiful, started caching last fall, which makes them our geocaching “children”! Her brother picked it up some time back too, but he doesn’t log in or have a geocaching handle, which makes him what? The illegitimate hidden away from public view never talked about child? (This is starting to sound like something out of the Enquirer or daytime soaps!)

Do we have cousins? Do we have other siblings? We’re related to Team Rusch somehow, but how?

What’s your story?

How do we describe those who are “first generation” cachers? Spontaneous Generation? (I forget my high school biology!)

Does this make the upcoming camp-out a family reunion?
05/13/2004 at 2:47 am #1747156
The Searchers
Here is some info so you can expand your growing family. Team Rusch (sons of The Searchers) started us in geocaching. Team Rusch then split into Team Rusch (son, daughter in-law and 2 grandaughters of The Searchers) and damonbaxter (other son who moved to Las Vegas). We will be watching to see how you lay this out.
Bill
05/13/2004 at 2:55 am #1747157
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Keymaster
This would make Team Rusch our “great-grandparents!” The split is troubling though….

I guess our “great-grandparents,” Team Rusch and damonbaxter, are divorced!
05/13/2004 at 4:45 am #1747158
bnb
I started because a friend sent me the url for geocaching.com with the comment, “Have you ever heard of this?” A checked it out, found it an interesting excuse to get out and about with my kids. My friend had never gone geocaching so does that make me a “test tube” geocacher?

I started caching with my kids, my husband picked it up and now, two years later, my son decided he wants his own ID. Tonight we took out the friend that originally told us about it and we think he’s hooked.

So, our lineage is short and circular:

geomuggle -> bnb
bnb -> chiot and swlumkin
bnb and chiot -> geomuggle

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05/13/2004 at 12:21 pm #1747159
WISearchers
quote:

Originally posted by bnb:
I started because a friend sent me the url for geocaching.com with the comment, “Have you ever heard of this?” A checked it out, found it an interesting excuse to get out and about with my kids. My friend had never gone geocaching so does that make me a “test tube” geocacher?

I started caching with my kids, my husband picked it up and now, two years later, my son decided he wants his own ID. Tonight we took out the friend that originally told us about it and we think he’s hooked.

So, our lineage is short and circular:

geomuggle -> bnb
bnb -> chiot and swlumkin
bnb and chiot -> geomuggle

[This message has been edited by bnb (edited 05-12-2004).]

What a great Thread T &C We should chart it out on a real family tree.

I’m not the biology teacher in the family so Im surprised I thought of this. BnB, Maybe you are the Hydra or Earthworm of geocaching, if you know what I mean! LOL

Mr. WISearcher
05/13/2004 at 2:32 pm #1747160
greyhounder
Just me so far — most of my family think I’m obsessed. I’m trying to get my brother into it, but he lives in Illinois, and we haven’t been able to plan a good caching weekend in IL yet (I’m trying to convince him to do The Journal, since it’s near him)

I’ve got some friends interested though (they haven’t officially gotten into it yet though) as well as my Southern Living At Home (one of those in home party things). I’ve even introduced it to a few of my fellow greyhound friends.

Bec
05/13/2004 at 3:05 pm #1747161
AuntieNae
Participant
My “Parent” would be: WhitnallGPS
I saw how much fun he was having so I bought a GPS and took it with me on my trip to Charleston SC in early March.
My “Children” would be:
Tammie & Co. because she got into it on our Charleston trip and
Messa, my niece, because I started taking her caching when I returned
05/13/2004 at 4:11 pm #1747162
buck09
I learned about geocaching from Wil Wheaton. (Played Wesley Crusher on Star Trek)

Don’t know him personally, but I read in his blog about his discovery of geocaching and I got really interested.
http://www.wilwheaton.net/

I have one person I brought in, tankkiller.
05/13/2004 at 4:43 pm #1747163
Ray
We found gc.com in the JournalSentinal and introduced ourselves to the sport. Our first cache was “Water You Looking For” by S,V &Mel. So, I guess you could say that Socko found us under a rock [spontaneous evolution].
05/13/2004 at 5:08 pm #1747164
wooden_nickel
Cool thread!! Here’s goes it…

‘Cachew’ intoduced me along with ‘cacheronwheels’, so I guess that makes John my geodad and Jenni my geosister. Top that off with the fact that my first cache was found along with cacheronwheels at a cache called ‘Jenni’s Cache’.

Since then I have introduced ‘yoink’ to geocaching and brought a handful of others along as well. I guess that make Eric my geoson. And for the rest of them, well maybe geocandidates…?

How about the rest of you? Geo friends, distant georelatives? Anyway, what a great ‘family’ and I look forward to seeing many of you and meeting many more of you at the geofamily reunion this weekend!

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05/13/2004 at 7:16 pm #1747165
thennig
Hmmm….I have no family. I mean, Tim introduced me to it but it was only like a day after he discovered it on the internet. And we share an account so I don’t know what that makes me!
05/13/2004 at 9:00 pm #1747166
GeoPink
quote:

Originally posted by thennig:
Hmmm….I have no family. I mean, Tim introduced me to it but it was only like a day after he discovered it on the internet. And we share an account so I don’t know what that makes me!

conjoined twins

later,
Team GeoPink
Co-conspirators to make the world a better place…
05/14/2004 at 1:51 pm #1747167
OuttaHand
My goe-tree is a bit short but here it is:

I was introduced to caching by my bosses, CacheCows.

I later introduced my father (Tuck-A-Way).

So my boss is the granddad, I’m the dad, and my dad is my geo-son!

There is also a limb of the tree that never really sprouted. I tried to get my brother into it. He was at last year’s spring geo-campout but didn’t really take to it. So that limb of the geo-tree kinda whithered away.
05/21/2004 at 3:03 pm #1747168
Miata
Wesley Crusher introduced you to Geocaching? He saw it in a vision quest the the Haboch(sp). Interesting

quote:

Originally posted by buck09:
I learned about geocaching from Wil Wheaton. (Played Wesley Crusher on Star Trek)

Don’t know him personally, but I read in his blog about his discovery of geocaching and I got really interested.
http://www.wilwheaton.net/

I have one person I brought in, tankkiller.
05/21/2004 at 6:41 pm #1747169
houseofbrew
quote:

Originally posted by buck09:
I learned about geocaching from Wil Wheaton. (Played Wesley Crusher on Star Trek)

Don’t know him personally, but I read in his blog about his discovery of geocaching and I got really interested.
http://www.wilwheaton.net/

I have one person I brought in, tankkiller.

Where did you see that? I looked on the site and couldn’t find it. I’m interested to read what he says about it.

[This message has been edited by houseofbrew (edited 05-21-2004).]
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