I can’t stop thinking about it. It absorbs my every thought. I dream about it. I talk about it incessantly. I want to do it every day. I plan my weekends around it too. You probably think I’m talking about a special celebration or occasion, but I’m not. I’m describing my addiction to geocaching. My family expressed concern about my geocaching hobby. They think I’m obsessed and will burn out if I don’t pace myself. Geocaching is so fun, I didn’t believe them. Then today, I received a notice about a new cache and despite weather, work and fatigue, I sprung into caching action.

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Do you remember moving into a new home and counting all the firsts? First movie, first dinner, first holiday, first guest. The newness offers a chance to appreciate the first time for everything in that new place. The same can be said about new activities. When you’re new at something every milestone is a first. Geocaching is our newest family activity. Since my last geocache article, we cached three more times. Four caching adventures doesn’t make us experts, but we’re learning fast. In the few short weeks since we began, we amassed several firsts.

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