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On our wish list..what a great choice for a milestone. Big congrats.
Congrats to a couple crazies!
That’s a wonderful hike and great milestone choice. Congrats!
We are on a little caching trip this weekend, the first in over two months. We did enjoy a snowshoeing event the beginning of March, but have otherwise pretty much sat out caching since Birdin’ suffered a broken arm…while caching.
That, combined with the utter realization that we aren’t getting any younger, has had us taking a bit more cautious approach. We passed on one of several tree climbs today. Right now, I just can’t. Trekkin’ took a look and decided his legs were too short, and he could maybe get up there, but we just didn’t need that smiley enough to risk another broken bone. Call us wimps if you like. We prefer to think of it as playing smart for the long haul.
I’d bring those images, as well as some kind of rot13 decoder ring. Have fun!
We do think geocaching is the type of activity that can draw people replacing other addictions, generally in a more positive fashion. Someone we care very much about who has dealt with serious addictions has come to a couple caching events with us and he simply said…”Yup. Just a group of addicts finding each other! It’s like radar.” While that isn’t the case for us, we do like “collecting.” That said….once before, we hit a point where we said…”Enough already.” We crept back into it after a time, but have generally done so at a less obsessive rate. We didn’t like driving 2 or more hours just to cache and started returning to other activities closer to home that we enjoyed before….and liked it.
The broken arm has given us the time and space to really think about the whole thing once more. I’m not saying we are quitting…we aren’t. But we have a few things we’d set out to do and would like to get there. After that, it will be going if we feel like it and looking for the kind we truly enjoy, passing on the rest. If need be…..we could quit all but the friendships. A year ago I don’t think I’d have been able to say that unequivocally, but now I can. I could say much more about the reasons it’s become much easier for us to say this, but for this discussion, I’ve said enough.
Birding? That’s a whole different matter. 😉 Not so very different that caching, really!
Those are really cute!
Obviously we haven’t played seriously in a couple years, and in fact, when we’ve done the occasional cache rescue, rarely log for the points. But I thought one of the rules was that you had to be a previous finder on archived ones in order to claim the points? Guess I should take a closer look at the current rules.
So….will be meeting at that winery before or after your most recent body dump? 🙄
We’ve had our eye on that very cache. We did an earlier incarnation of it, all on xc kids. We’re thinking it would be fun to try and do this one biking and hiking and walking by water. I *think* our longest hike for a single cache find was about 7 miles, on the Superior Hiking Trail.
i know a lot of us have discussed this, but two things…
there are new people joining the forums and…
one’s own reasons might well change over time.
if you feel that i’m beating a dead horse, you can avoid the dead horse and let it stay dead. others may be interested, or the topic can die.
There is a very small contingent of people who try to do what is called a BGBY…big green birding year. Walk or bike to a few locations close to home.
That’s been me since the broken arm, but otherwise…..yeah, I have one of those new fangled thingies, too. I think my original post just shows how it really doesn’t matter what the searching game might be, there are many points of view and more similarities than differences between them.
That it is, and I’m trying to figure out what would be a great adventure to mark that. A birding friend went to the Grand Canyon and saw her lifer California Condor. That has some appeal, especially since our Arizona plans for next week had to be tanked due to a broken wing.
So many stories sitting there waiting to be unearthed and told. Had to be boys in the house at one time, judging by the Tonka trucks. My brothers had that same Jeep one. What an interesting property.
I came across something similar regarding the hospital in Minneapolis where I was born. For quite some time, it sat empty and blighted, and urban explorers went through and….explored. It has since been listed on the National Historic Register (and no, Mr. G, NOT because I was born there!) and renovated into affordable housing. It’s won some design awards from that. I’m sure it all has something to do with the birth of a person in late 1953 there. Good karma and all that! 🙄
I cannot believe the Pickers haven’t been there. They love all that rusty stuff!
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