Hiders of caches seem to try to bring you to places they themselves have enjoyed.

You know what I mean... you discover a well maintained park and you think to yourself "wouldn't this be a nice place for a cache?"

I remember once being on top of a hill overlooking Wabisis Lake. Of course I had to put a cache there. I was happy when people logged their finds and expressed their gratitude for bringing them to such a beautiful spot.

I have seen videos of people in various states documenting their search on top of mountains. The scenery was breathtaking. You come to appreciate the thoughtfulness of others as they go out of their way to share their everyday experiences.

The point I would like to make is we should be thankful. Not everything may be to our liking and we may not have gone to these places without the benefit of a cache, but still you have to appreciate the fact that owners are trying their best. The wife doesn't feel the same way about these particular caches and I think she is being unfair. Let me present the evidence and you be the judge.

A cacher in our area had placed a few caches that ran along a theme. We've all seen it before; a series of light poles, a group on guardrails, maybe several on bridges. This particular theme seemed to be strip clubs. The owner had place three caches at three different clubs. After the wife and I had finished doing all three caches, I wrote this log.

"First Parkway Tropics, then Sensations and now Lady Godiva. Well done! By the way, if you ever need anyone to help you to place your next cache, I would be more than happy to tag along and help you in your research for another location in context with your theme of"... Excuse me one moment.

"What's that Dear?"

"I'm just logging our cache."

"What?"

"Oh no, Dear."

"I wouldn't think of it, Dear."

"Of course, Dear, I understand completely."

"I couldn't agree with you more. It is disgusting."

Me again. I just looked at my schedule. Unfortunately it appears I'm booked solid for quite some time. So forget what I was saying about the research... Thanks anyway.

Now don't you agree with me? Isn't she unreasonable? Unfortunately the owner of the caches moved back to Alabama. He claimed he couldn't take another winter in Michigan. The wife seemed far too pleased about his leaving. I'm not so sure she didn't have a hand in it. As for his series of caches...

Me: "Wasn't that fun?"

By nanncyan

The wife and I have been geocaching about three years now.  We enjoy the exercise and great scenery.  We are surprised by the parks that we never knew exsisted right in our own back yard.  We live in Comstock Park Michigan.  We are fortunate to have thousands of caches within a short drive.  We are recently retired and plan to cache around the country.  Who knows maybe we will be in Washington next July for GW VIII!  Our goal is to keep geocaching fun.  I hope our stories relate that to others.

Marvin Altena