Thursday, February 2, 2017

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.