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Congratulations on a fun milestone!
I know this is intended as a lighthearted thing, but I’ll just dredge up an old thread with a little different slant on all of this.
http://wi-geocaching.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=8028&highlight=addiction
There are some in the geocaching world who have personal reasons for wishing to avoid looking at what we do in terms of “addiction.” I’ll just say it… part of the reason we got active in geocaching was to momentarily escape problems with addiction issues with a family member, which was really ripping our family up. We were literally in the midst of doing serious interventions with someone, interventions that probably kept that individual alive. I can laugh at some of this stuff now, because we saw movement forward, but I also know that for those folks, it’s always a tenuous hold on things. Just something to think about….
Congratulations!
As one who’s been on the other side of that table briefly, I offer my everlasting thanks for all who step up to serve. Thanks!
Our new nuvi 1450 would not accept the waypoints when loaded with the POI loader. That sent them to “extras,” and the moment I clicked on one to navigate, the unit shuts off! We ended up doing what Captain and Mate suggest, loading it from the drop down. We don’t get the cache info, but we’re only using it to get us to the parking spots, anyway. It’s worked out just fine this way.
Trekkin’ had the good fortune of doing some work with these guys as they used the results of their research to help craft new instruction for hunter education courses for the DNR. Bob Jackson was also the father of a friend of mine who is the president of our local Audubon club. Anyway, take a look at these stages of hunting. I think it could as easily apply to hunting tupperware as animals. We haven’t reached that point where we just go out to look and don’t worry about logging, but I know folks who are there.
When we started, the DeLorme was out there and not too long after that, Well Roundeds started to show up. We went through all the phases many seem to pass through and have returned to the things that first interested us….long hikes or adventurous approaches, exploration into areas we’d otherwise never discover, seeing those quirky things that often have a cache nearby while we travel. We came into the game as confirmed outdoors types and that’s where we are happiest. We’ve met pretty much any caching goal we’ve made for ourselves with the exception of a couple and have decided that once we meet those, we won’t chase any more. Do what you enjoy. One thing we have both agreed upon is that we’ll never look for a cache because we “needed” it for some end. Hopefully, each one we seek is worth the experience for us on its own merits. We have many, many caches close to home that we may or may not choose to seek, and it bothers us not at all to see them appear on the maps. They might be just the ticket for someone else and isn’t it great there is something for everyone?
Others may play differently and that’s one of the things that makes this a great activity for many to enjoy.
We have noticed a couple interesting trends as we’ve moved this direction the past several months. First of all, we have far fewer micros in our PQs now. We don’t filter them out, but the types of locations we pick perhaps don’t need such small caches. The other interesting phenomenon we’ve noticed is that a majority of the caches we’ve picked on any given outing have several “favorites” points at least. Again, we haven’t looked at favorites to make our choices, but it seems like we pick pretty well. We’ve found a lot less on any given day than we did a year or two ago, but are having a lot more fun than we did, too. If we’d kept going on that other pace, we’d have….quit. We were getting to that point and actually did quit for a bit before having this attitude adjustment.
Interesting inquiry and it’s interesting to see what others have to say about their own caching histories.
You people are all hopeless!!! 🙄 Are we gonna let a bunch of Hoosiers show us up?
I suppose we will…..
Hey, doesn’t Mrs. TBC have some musical skills? Hmmm?
French horn player here, but there isn’t a whole lot of call for those at jam events. Swing band would be fun, though. Darn. Isn’t there someone who is strong with guitar or something like that, so the rest of us could strum or bang along?
Congratulations, she is just beautiful.
Dang, you’re getting rid of old ones? Trekkin’ uses and prefers the old wood ones. (We own something like 5 pair in various styles between the two of us). If you are thinking of making them into wall hangings, he suggests coating them with a coat of varathane 92 clear gloss exterior wood finish on the wood frame and rawhide for protection in case you ever decide you’d like to pull them off the wall and use them again.
Nice!
Thanks Barry…something good came out of this changeover, at least for us. Those maps are nice! Though I still preferred scrolling around for fun on the website with the old maps. Oh well. Less time wasted doing that sort of thing, another good thing to come of this!
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