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Post your geocaching addiction story hear. I don’t think I count as an addict-only 30 caches. Stories can be real or made up.
-DingoYou know you are addicted when you need to know who all the players are. Who is Dingo? Who is Steak?
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Originally posted by steak:
Post your geocaching addiction story hear. I don’t think I count as an addict-only 30 caches. Stories can be real or made up.
Well, I too only have 30 finds, but I can see the onset of addiction taking hold… Where I work we just went to a 1 hour lunch break, which gives me time to find a cache every afternoon. Using Streets & Trips 2004, I created a 10 minute drivetime zone from my office, and then plotted every cache within the zone. So far, I’ve found every traditional in that zone. Unfortunately, some of the caches take longer to find, which means I have to skip eating lunch. As I start to find multi’s and expand my drivetime zone, I’m sure I’ll be missing more meals…
you know you are addicted to geocaching when…
1. Your entire family owns headlamps so you can cache into the night.
2. New caches in your area cause a mad dash for the truck in an attempt to be FTF.
3. 20 caches on a Saturday seems pretty much routine.
4. You have a ‘special’ area in the house dedicated to caching. This area contains the caching backpack, GPS, PDA, batteries, maps, happy meal toys, travel bugs, ammo cans, etc.
You know you addicted when it is 11:43 am on a Tuesday, and you’ve already been on Geocaching.com & WGA website 5 times, and you are at work.. uh.. multitasking?
OR, you keep seeing notifications that Ms. WISearcher is posting caches for approval for the upcoming Monopoly series. (Who also is at work! 😛
Mr. WISearcher
We have the GPS, now all we need is the tall ship![This message has been edited by WISearchers (edited 03-30-2004).]
You know your addicted when you can’t go caching for a day, so you spend your late night hours reading and posting on the message boards just for a fix.
You know your addicted when you get a phone call from a cacher who needs a little help, and your as thrilled as they are when they get the find.
You know your addicted when you can think of three or more reasons why your addicted.
Pat & Bob
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Originally posted by Cashing Out:
You know your addicted when you can’t go caching for a day, so you spend your late night hours reading and posting on the message boards just for a fix….Pat & Bob
Wow 12:24 AM!!! Hello my name is Pat and this is Bob and we’re geocachers. (All) Hi Pat and Bob!!!
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You know your addicted when you get a phone call from a cacher who needs a little help, and your as thrilled as they are when they get the find.
[/B]You know you addicted when Ms. WISearcher rolls her pant legs up wades in to check for a cache that may be suspended over 3 feet of icy cold water. If the junior lotsacaches weren’t there, Mr. Lotsacache and Mr. WISearcher would have gotten a show, as Ms. WISearcher was willing to drop trow for the team. Mr. WISearcher was all for it.
I need to go hide, as I am probably in trouble now.
Mr WISearcher.
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You know you are addicted when after spending 14+ hours Geocaching on Saturday, you wake up Sunday morning wondering if you can convince the kids to go out caching again today!
And when Ms. Lotsacache would have joined Ms. WISearcher in that cold water search if the little Lotsacachers weren’t there. (Can’t give the little Lotsacachers any ideas!)
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Originally posted by WISearchers:
Mr. Lotsacache and Mr. WISearcher would have gotten a show, as Ms. WISearcher was willing to drop trow for the team. Mr. WISearcher was all for it.
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Originally posted by TeamLotsacache:
…And when Ms. Lotsacache would have joined Ms. WISearcher in that cold water search…That was a camera phone you called from, wasn’t it?
Bob[This message has been edited by Cashing Out (edited 04-04-2004).]
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Hey Buck09, I am doing the same thing!
I have every cache within a reasonable distance from work figured out. Each nice day, I am outta there for the hour. Hiking boots and back pack are in the back seat at all times. I have started packing a lunch so I can eat lunch along the way.
Okay, now I know I am not going crazy if others are doing the same thing!
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Originally posted by Trudy & the beast:
Who is Dingo? Who is Steak?A sock puppet??
You know you are addicted when the worst thing in your life is that the nearest caches you have not found are over an hour drive away.
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insanity #1- Brew: There’s a cache right across the street! Let’s hit that first!
Chili: The funeral starts in 15 minutes!
B: But if we hit the first waypoint, we can figure out the puzzle during the sermon!
insanity #2- Micro Brew, on seeing an empty film cannister, asks, “who left the microcache there?”
Chili
I have been “saving up” the caches within driving distance of work for lunch time finds. If I have an afternoon or a day, I will travel out to get others. Is that being addicted?
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Originally posted by Cathunter:
You know you are addicted when the worst thing in your life is that the nearest caches you have not found are over an hour drive away.
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…and even begin to contimplate moving to be nearer fresh caches
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