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Ha! Russ you crack me up! A couple things in terms of your comments, my friend, and, yes, I guess I will be the first to admit that we are honored to call you friend! First, I do believe you are related to Ron–you guys kind of look alike. Second, I know from having had to carry you up a couple of hills that you haven’t lost any weight! In fact, I think you are getting heavier…. Oh, and I spoke with your parole officer and he said no way he is letting you out this weekend; he knows you intend to knock over a Pick-N-Save for Oreos!
Thank you Queenie for such a great thread! Your choice of topic, and response, shows your insight, love, and understanding of this great adventure we call geocaching. We feel lucky, like others who in this thread have so profoundly stated, to have found this sport which has brought us so much joy, friendship, and fun! It all began with Professor reading about geocaching in a magazine while sitting in the sauna at the West Bend YMCA….
When the Beast speaks, as he has above, I think it is almost always worth it to listen to him (one exception that comes to mind involves his undergarments, but that’s another story! ). Ahem, anyway, we believe strongly, like the Beast, that it is about the bonds of friendship. We feel honored to have met so many great people: to become friends, to laugh together, hunt caches together, tell stories together, and encounter the often awesome wonders we would have probably never encountered outside of geocaching.
Another thing we love about geocaching are the adventures and, maybe even more, the stories that come out of them! I love it when I get the privilege of reading one of JThorson’s hilarious logs! Or when someone logs that they really enjoyed one of our caches. Heck, I even love it when Russell trips me, sprints to the cache site and finds the dang thing, and then dances around singing, “Go Garmin, Go Garmin”; or when we were Up Nord and Anne tried to put everyone to sleep with Jazz! I hate to admit it, but I even love the logs from Astro-Don complaining about bugs or the cold! Okay…I will even go so far as to say (like I have a choice) that I love it when Earth Angel gets the van stuck in another ditch!
While there is so much to love about geocaching, and I could go on and on, I will finish by reflecting a little bit about what motivates us to go for the numbers we have strove for over these last two years. Both Earth Angel and I were raised as competitive athletes. Tami was once a nationally-ranked triathelete, and I played football (briefly for the Chicago Blitz). The sport aspect of geocaching, challenging ourselves against our own goals, pushing ourselves physically, appeals to that nature. Often hiking over 20 miles in a day, or caching for 18 hours straight, for some strange reason thrills us. Having said that, and not denying that the numbers do mean something to us, we also try to promote and grow Wisconsin geocaching (really, an Evil Monkey, in his own twisted way, promotes geocaching!), and do our small part in trying to make the environment a little better than before we were there. We believe strongly in the freedom and individuality of geocaching, and respect individual interpretations of what is important. Have we make mistakes? You bet. Yet who hasn’t? But I think the important thing is that we are growing and learning as individuals, as a family, and as a great community of friends!
Thank you all for being such an important part of our geocaching experience and our lives. We feel honored and blessed to know you, and we look forward to so many more great times together!
-Wade (Professor)
