Spinning off……tech person or outdoors person?

[gotta run]

@Team Deejay wrote:

I knew I enjoyed hiking as a kid, but never could get my wife to see the merits of walking 5 miles only to end up right where you started.

This is us. We like the outdoors just fine but it was always something we “should” do rather than something we “wanted to” do. Geocaching provided that reason–an objective–for the family, plus for me added the high-tech factor that I’ve been into since I was a kid but now can finally afford. 😀

For us, caching is all about getting out and experiencing something new or overcoming a challeging terrain. It’s what we stress to bewildered people who ask us about the game. Let’s face it, if you talk about finding a film can in a guard rail…it sounds pretty dumb. Talk about hiking to some little-known hideway that another geocacher was nice enough to share so that you can “sign the visitor log,” that makes more sense to John Q. Public.

Our kids have learned so much and nearly every time we go out we get a “remember when?” story. It’s why you won’t see us do numbers runs or why we’ll drive by P&R caches (unless they’re lonely 😈 ) because when I poll the car, nobody wants to stop for them–it’s not the quality vs. quantity argument, it’s just that out of the four cachers in our household, 1/2 of them never go on gc.com and wouldn’t know what our find count is if you asked them. Another 1/4 only looks online when I mention it.

So for us, geocaching really is “Out There,” not “In Here.”

On the Left Side of the Road...

[Sagasu]

Original nature boy here. Geocaching gave us another very good reason to be “out there” any time we can. I’m sure this is no great revelation to our friends who see how we use our GPS. Still archaic and having fun. 😉

[Todd300]

Techie here. Never was much of an outdoors person until I discovered geocaching. Now I love being in the outdoors as geocaching takes me places that I would otherwise never go to.

Hmm…time to add “geocaching” to Firefox’s dictionary. According to Firefox, geocaching and geocache are not words. LOL.

There. Done.

[Lostby7]

Tech or Nature guy? To be honest I recall very little of my childhood…blunt force trauma to the ol’ noggin has a tendency to make things a bit foggy.

…but I sure do love electronics. I know more than average but not enough to make any money with that knowledge. It took me until last year to finally get a cell phone so I guess I can’t say I’m hardcore overly in that respect.

…but I love biking; wind rushing under my helmet, fire in my legs on a brutal climb, the turkey or field of flowers off to the right….I guess I have to lean on the side of nature.

Geocaching really opened my eyes to things around me and made me also want to share those things with my children….waterfalls, mountains, deep cut ravines, mighty rivers and arid deserts….because of geocaching I rediscovered those things and brought them to my children’s attention as well. How these experiences will shape them is hard to say but I think they are better for having experienced these things.

As for the whole social aspect so many of you mention…I’m still working on that part. Give me a 100 mile ride up the brutal hills of Blue Mounds or a 4 hour hike up Harney Peak…I’ll take that any day before I have to give a public speech (I’m a writer not a conversationalist).

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