Before selective availability was turned off and before we discovered geocaching, planning any kind of trip was a matter of picking out something we wanted to do or see and going to do it. We planned trips with our boys to go dogsledding for the day in the national forest, then heading down to Canal Park in the evening to see the ice sculptures from the Beargrease run. We’d plan camping trips at Potowatomi and hike some of the state and county parks and take in some of the sights. We sea kayaked into the Apostle Island caves.

Now, we tend to look at what caches we’d like to visit when we go somewhere. Often, those caches still bring us to the kinds of places we visited pre-caching, but the whole tone of the trip is different. Not saying one way is better than the other, just…different.

Anyone else have any observations?