We have been doing this 10 years and have only found 138 caches. I think the biggest thing that burned me out was the massive amount of microcaches that began appearing everywhere and when geocaching became a numbers game.
When we started we would have to drive a decent distance to find a cache. The main reason was where we live and that geocaching was a new activity. The cache was usually at a place that we would have never went otherwise and we were able to see lots of great places.
Last fall we spent a couple days caching. One day we went for one cache that we had been meaning to go to for some time that was pretty much in the middle of nowhere. We did not find the cache but the area was better than any cache that could have been there. The next day we went looking for 4 caches. All were micros and we ended up finding 2 of them. 1 was in a tree in a boulevard and the other on a sign in a parking lot. It was not a waste of a day by any means but not a whole lot of thought went into them.
The numbers thing is pretty much self explanatory. If that is the game you play that is great but it not for me.
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