How Addicted Am I?

Found this list of 100 Things Every Geocacher Must Do Sooner or Later.  Let's see how many I have.

1. Log a multi cache. - DONE
2. Become FTF. - DONE
3. Hide your own cache. - DONE
4. Log your 100th find. - DONE
5. Buy geocaching stuff online. - DONE
6. Think “this would make an excellent hiding spot” on your way to work or school. - DONE
7. Geocache on your vacation, to the horror of the rest of the family. - DONE
8. Cache abroad. - DONE
9. Participate in an event. - DONE
10. Listen to a podcast about geocaching. - DONE
11. Upgrade to a new GPS.
12. Download GSAK.
13. Go geocaching in a group. - DONE
14. Log a mystery. - DONE
15. Cache in the dark. - DONE
16. Phone a friend to get help finding a cache.
17. Get lost. - DONE
18. Log a traditional. - DONE
19. Organize an event. - DONE
20. Walk the birds’ path even if it’s not the most suitable one. - DONE
21. Use a flashlight while searching for a cache - DONE.
22. Move a TB or a coin. - DONE
23. Buy and send your own TB or coin. - DONE
24. Have a pre-packed geocaching bag. - DONE
25. Randomly meet another geocacher. - DONE
26. Drop your GPS in the water.
27. Log the wrong date online. - DONE
28. Log a DNF. - DONE
29. Drive on a private road. - DONE
30. Visit http://www.awesomegeocaching.com. - DONE
31. Miss your favorite TV show to log a cache. - DONE
32. Google “geocaching” out of boredom. - DONE
33. Say or think “only one more cache”. - DONE
34. Have a dream about geocaching. - DONE
35. Register in a local or national geocaching organization.
36. Have your photo taken while up in a tree. - DONE
37. Geocache in a metropolis. - DONE
38. Buy a lock n’ lock container.
39. Hope for an update/new feature on geocaching.com (or other similar website).
40. Log a webcam cache. - DONE
41. Brag about a geocaching achievement. - DONE
42. Get weird looks from muggles. - DONE
43. Get stopped by the police. - DONE
44. Have a special music playlist for geocaching trips.
45. Stare for ages at a physical map. - DONE
46. Do something physical you would otherwise never have done. - DONE
47. Pick up trash while geocaching (CITO). - DONE
48. Stand right next to a cache without seeing it. - DONE
49. Park where you shouldn’t park. - DONE
50. Log an earth cache. - DONE
51. Film a geocaching adventure with a video camera.
52. Have the phone number of another geocacher in your cell phone. - DONE
53. Upload a photo to geocaching.com. - DONE
54. Search online for a cache of a specific difficulty. - DONE
55. Become surprised when darkness falls. - DONE
56. Try to place a cache that gets denied by a reviewer.
57. Blog about geocaching. - DONE
58. Ask a newbie question about geocaching on a forum. - DONE
59. Write a cache description in a foreign language.
60. Explain geocaching to a muggle. - DONE
61. Download something related to geocaching. - DONE
62. Become wet during a search. - DONE
63. Write the wrong date in a physical log. - DONE
64. Read about geocaching in a newspaper or magazine. - DONE
65. Log your 1000th cache. - DONE
66. Think “what the heck am I doing here?” - DONE
67. Accept a challenge related to geocaching. - DONE
68. Become FTF for the 10th time.
69. Log DNF three times in a row. - DONE
70. Participate in a CITO-event.
71. Wish that your GPS device was better. - DONE
72. Find something really fun in a geocache. - DONE
73. Have a bad GPS reception. - DONE
74. Run out of batteries at an unsuitable moment. - DONE
75. Wish that you could be out geocaching, when you’re stuck with something else. - DONE
76. Log a cache that would not be possible to take without the help of someone else. - DONE
77. Bring a friend for a geocaching trip. - DONE
78. Trade up a cache, meaning to leave something of greater value than what you take. - DONE
79. Log a cache in a cache bomb.
80. Log all caches in a cache bomb.
81. Criticize a fellow geocacher.
82. Log at least 10 caches in a day. - DONE
83. Attempt a 5/5.
84. Complain that people don’t put the cache back at its original location. - DONE
85. Not put a cache back at its original location. - DONE
86. Complain about bad coordinates. - DONE
87. Pretend to tie your shoes to avoid muggles.
88. Tell a friend about geocaching. - DONE
89. Fix a damaged cache that belongs to someone else.
90. Become thrilled about an e-mail from geocaching.com. - DONE
91. Applaud another geocacher. - DONE
92. Be annoyed by all the trash in caches and then place something useless yourself. - DONE
93. Lose your GPS.
94. Geocache together with children. - DONE
95. Take a break of over a month.
96. Tease someone who can’t find a cache that you have already found.
97. Forget to log a cache online.
98. Log a cache in a cave. - DONE
99. Log a letterbox cache. - DONE
100. Complete everything on this list.

Almost all.  No surprise there!  Here's 50 more:

1. Explain to a guard what you’re searching for. - DONE
2. Find a cache in 10 seconds even if you searched for it in vain for half an hour the previous day. - DONE
3. Hurt yourself when searching for a cache. - DONE
4. Log a geocache very quickly as it was impossible to be discret with muggles around. - DONE
5. See a weird person on a geocache location and understand that she is a geocacher. - DONE
6. Not find the cache but take benefit of the marvelous scenic view and deal with it. - DONE
7. Walk several kilometers for only one cache.
8. Go caching in a cemetery. - DONE
9. Hesitate to thank the owner for a cache beacuse the cache wasn’t so good. - DONE
10. Tell a cache owner that you thought the cache was crap. - DONE
11. Take benefit of a wedding to find some caches in the area.
12. Imagine how a cache could be placed while looking at street elements around you. - DONE
13. Know your current number of founds by the exact count. - DONE
14. Spend hours to solve a mystery and be happy when it succeeds. - DONE
15. Randomly find a cache without having been looking for it.
16. Not be able to put a cache back because a muggle has arrived after your found it.
17. Pass near a cache you have already found and check it’s still there.
18. Crash or damage your geomobile during a hunt.
19. Lose or soak your shoes in a swamp and continue barefeet.
20. Be chased by a wild animal.
21. Use a rope to reach a cache.
22. Participate in a geocaching contest. - DONE
23. Lead a course on geocaching.
24. Have your own cache muggled.
25. Run out of ink in your pen when trying to sign a log. - DONE
26. Log by taking a photo instead of signing the log book (for any reason). - DONE
27. Use a spoiler photo to find a cache. - DONE
28. End up in the hospital as the result of a hunt.
29. Read about the death of a fellow geocacher. - DONE
30. Know someone who has been geocaching since the year 2001.
31. Stumble upon a snake or spider when caching. - DONE
32. Find the cache then prentend that you haven’t in order to fool your geocaching friend(s).
33. Receive a phone call from another geocacher who is in need of a hint.
34. Come home all dirty and muddy. - DONE
35. Find a cache burried in snow. - DONE
36. Meet a geodog. - DONE
37. Watch a You Tube video about geocaching. - DONE
38. Read a novel in which geocaching is mentioned. - DONE
39. Watch a movie in which geocaching is featured.
40. Find a geocache in Africa.
41. Go on a weekend geocaching trip, with the main purpose of finding caches. - DONE
42. Travel a long distance by car to log an FTF.
43. Stumble across a geocaching term or abbreviation that you don’t know the meaning of.
44. Log three DNF’s – in a row. - DONE
45. Use the wrong coordinates and thus end up in the wrong place. - DONE
46. Film/videotape one of your own geocaching adventures.
47. Get in contact with an unusual animal when on a hunt.
48. Write about/mention geocaching on Facebook. - DONE
49. Post a “need maintenance” log. - DONE
50. Suggest more things to be added to this list.

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3 of 3 -GC5GVC4

 This cache is fairly close to our house.  I had actually found it a week ago, but couldn't get the cap off so didn't log it as a find.  A few more people have found it since then, and left the cap looser, so I was able to open it this time.  

I mainly stopped so I could keep my cache-a-day streak going in 2015.  Don't know why I bothered - it died the very next day.  I am just not meant to do long streaks apparently.  

Fort Casey

We really should have gone the day before, it was cold, but sunny and dry.  Today, was freezing and rainy.  Needless to say we didn't stay long!

WaStatePks100: Fort Casey -GC4B7DR

 I ran back and found the cache while the family huddled in the car trying to warm up.  Did you know there was an exhibit there about composting and recycling?  Me either!  Some nice, warm, sunny day, I may go back and actually read the signs. 

Found another Travel Bug in the cache. 

Driving back, we drove through Coupeville.  Joshua and I ran all the way out to the end of a pier to find this cache.  Again, might go back and explore when it's not so cold and wet!


Rosie's Cache -GC11JRA

 

Its a Man's Life In Whidbey's Island Green

Its a Man's Life In Whidbey's Island Green -GC1NQKH

 We went to the Need's cabin for a few days.  Had grand plans of finding several caches a day. All the kids and even Eric were on board with the plan.  Barely found 1 a day.  LOL

First cache of the year, found bright and early when I took the girls to the park at 8ish am.  It was literally freezing cold - about 28 degrees.  They had fun though!

Christmas

Christmas finally arrived and the kids had fun digging into their gifts.  We actually had to remind them to finish opening things as they were so busy playing with their new toys.

Elves Love Art Too III

Elves Love Art Too III -GCN2A6

This cache took longer than it should have.  I kept running out of time and having to go back.  I looked up the necessary info on my first trip.  Tried to find it on my 2nd trip and failed.  Finally found it on my 3rd trip just by going off the hint, but not the answers to the questions that were part of the cache.  Oh well!

After all that, I forgot to take a photo.  






This ended up being my last cache for 2014.  I found 206 caches in 2014.  Not bad!

Hairstyling and Caching

One of the girls had a hair appointment, so I went caching to kill time while waiting.  It takes a good 2 hours to wash, dry, comb and re-braid their hair.So cute when they are done though!

Almost the Eastern most spot in Seattle -GCYTDV

Yield to the temptation of caching -GC1WT1Z

Very clever hide!

Whale Watching - GC4XNFX

Kerry Viewpoint Park -GC62C8

This one was a bit of a cheat.  It's a Virtual Cache, meaning there is nothing to find per se.  You go to the spot, look up information there and email it to the cache owner to log a find.  I've been to Kerry Park dozens of times and knew what statue they were talking about.  So, I looked up the name online and emailed it in.  Such a cheater!