I was looking at my geocaching stats and admiring my new icons, (3 new cache types! But I’ll get to that in a minute…) when I had a question pop into my head. “Why do I have so many Events caches and so few actual Geocaches showing on my last 30 days of activity page?” The answer: You! My fellow geocachers are the treasure I find at events.
I feel compelled to attend geocaching events. I really appreciate the time and effort the hosts put in to make them fun and enjoyable. By attending I feel like I am saying “great job” and “thanks” for creating an opportunity for me to get to know more great people and just visit with folks who enjoy the things that I do.
An Event is a fixed time and place and if you miss it, there is no tomorrow. A geocache? Well, that will be there next week when I’ll have more time. At least that is what I tell myself. (But really when do any of us really ever have more time?)
It seems like I need to have a mountainside fall on me to get me to actually step away from all of the little things that seem so important, like laundry, housecleaning and oh yeah, work, to get me to go outside and caching. Going caching alone is often just the ticket I need to sooth my soul. I get a great sense of peace just hanging out in the nature that surrounds me on a mountainside or in a great park. Other times, I just have more fun caching with friends. And Geocaching Events are the place to make Geocaching Friends.
So, thank you to all my geocaching friends, old and new, for brightening so many of my days this last week. Which brings me to my icons!
I was lucky enough to attend three “10 Years!” geocaching anniversary events last weekend.
I had a blast at each and every one!
Picked up a webcam cache while out running errands.
And finally was able to do my first Earthcache!
Not a bad geocaching week! Enjoy your weekend and Happy Caching!
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