Posted on 06/19/2016 7:52:22 AM PDT by CaptainPhilFan
Hi FRiends. I started Geocaching this week; downloaded the app and bought a 3 month membership.
Looked for 6 hides in the last few days and DNF any but I'm rather hooked! LOL.
Anybody else got the bug? I thought this might be fun to do with grandbabies but ohmylanta! are the ones around here tricky!
In Roanoke VA for another few weeks visiting, then back up to Yankee country.
So looking forward to finding something and hoping I don't screw up the hide! :)
I'd really like to hear any other experiences anyone has had. I don't know anyone else who has done this.
Happy Fathers Day, too!
Frankly, I think anything that involves the grand childrens’ sense of mystery and wonder or adventure is good.
Good luck with it.
I have a couple of friends who love it, but I have yet to catch the bug. They have found hundreds of geocaches in the northeast. They seem to devote most of their weekends to it, lots of short trips to new locales. It sounds intriguing..... maybe I should give it a try soon!
I tried to hide a person from Czechoslovakia in a store parking lot but the owner said they don’t cache Czechs.
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That was good.
Wife and I started caching back in 2003. Have only found sixty caches and owned nine. We only have one cache active now. We love it, but don’t have the time for it like we did back in the day.
We’ve been doing it for years. It’s a lot of fun.
One of our travel bugs has been on the road for 7 years.
Have fun.
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Used to do this years ago when it first started. Fun way to spend an afternoon and see interesting countrysides. Gave my pocket sized GPS to my grown up kids and now they go out on occasion. Phones didn’t have GPS then.
My daughter loved to geocache and I accompanied her on several forays. The one cautionary note I would give is that lots of the caches are in high visibility, public places. So it behooves you to exercise a little caution when putting the object back so that curious non-geocachers don’t see you.
There seems to be spoilers to any activity these days and people destroying the cache is one of them.
Happy hunting!
Okay, at the risk of sounding like I’ve been living under a rock for the last several years, what the *&@^&!! is “geocaching”?
Bought a membership? Didn’t know this hobby costs anything.
A premium membership comes with a cost. We still do the poor man’s version. (Free)
Yep. It claims to offer better lists and features. 10 bucks for 3 months seemed reasonable, I’ll give it a shot.
Exactly! I’m an outdoorsy type who hasn’t had many outdoor adventures in the last decade, so I like the thought of passing that love onto the grandkids. Only 3 and 5, so I’m wanting to find the caches first and then bring them, but that plan is failing so far :)
Interesting. Never suspected.
There’s nothing stopping from planting your own cache surprise. Just don’t ever tell them until they can understand.
I’ve been wanting to try it for YEARS. Never had a GPS device but recently realized there’s a phone app. Your friends sound like fun, and I hope to mimic them, but the Mr. isn’t much of an adventurer. Must think of some form of bribery.....:)
If you’re ever in the upstate of south Carolina, look ours up.https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC49AMJ_geocaching-revisited?guid=f37d6d76-5809-425e-a886-93ece17d27ff
LOL ... is that an official Geojoke? :)
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