We have only been caching since February 2010 and I have really enjoyed how caching has changed my perception. All of the different locations where a cache is located has helped expand beyond what a average muggle would see within a city or country. You never realize what places are in your city unless you get out and about to discover where you live. Just my visions and how I look at roads has changed. Now all I see are locations and possible locations for geocaches.

Some of these sites has been amazing and you would have never known about their existence or what someone is trying to teach you in their cache. It's also interesting to see how caches vary from city to city and style to style. I have seen some caches, i.e. cemetery series back East and don't see these really too much around here. Also how Las Vegas does a lot of LPC's but in other cities not at many LPC's. I am always looking forward to what a another cache will bring to us and what we can take away from the experience.

So in what ways has caching affected and done for you?

That is the rush of caching; it takes you to areas that you would have never been to if not a cacher. It also takes you to some of the areas that you wished the cache didn't bring you to LOL..

WELCOME to the OBCESSION..

I love the offroad types the best. Ones that take me to new areas that I may not have found otherwise. I also love Earth caches. Urban ones are starting to grow on me as I have seen things in town I am ure I would not have other wise. History lessons are great. The old Santa Fe trail etc are just fun to learn some of the history out here.


Anyway caching has definately help teach me a lot about Las Vegas and the surrounding areas that maybe even those that have lived here a long may not know. You can't beat caching, fun all around for all ages.

Iam not a fan of urban caches but if you are hooked on a numbers game then that will work for you.
I prefer the remote caches on mountain tops and other interesting sights. A couple of years ago we did a road trip to Montana through New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming caching along this route brought us to some interesting sites we may have missed if it were not for geocaching.
Just returned from a quick trip to Tanzania were I was able to grab a earth cache and a micro. not many but I was with a group and not driving. The earth cache was informative.

Off road, highway park and grab, urban, hill climb, I like them all. There are hundreds of places I would never have gone if it weren't for geocaching.

Even my impending transfer to Afghanistan was due to a personal connection that I made through Geocaching.

LPC's do get a bit boring and it does help out with your cache count increase.

We like the ones in the boonies best. They get us out where we might not have gone. And the cache out there "proves" that the "road" in driveable, right.

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Or that someone has a helicopter. I've hiked to at least one cache that someone had found a "quicker" route too.

I found a place for a cache that I am going to place in tribute to a friend of ours that is moving out of the Valley soon and I just figured out the theme for the mystery cache.

The most interesting aspect of my geocaching has been an almost obsessive increase in my interest of learning more about local Nevada history. I've lived in my home town for over 45 years, but it wasn't until I started caching almost 4 years ago that I learned the California Emigrant Trail and Transcontinental Railroad practically ran through our town...in fact, portions of both run onto the property of the company I work for, and nobody knew it! My junior high school Nevada history teacher never mentioned it in her class (she probably didn't know either). This has lead to my involvement with the local chapter of the OCTA, volunteering to help do trail cleanups every year.
I've learned about the Transcontinental Airmail route because I logged a benchmark off the GC.com website, and wondered what the lighted tower I'd benchmarked was used for. I've learned about an almost forgotten wagon freight road that operated for ten years between Wadsworth and Columbus that I (nor anybody I know) had ever heard of...all because of geocaching.
It's almost been like going back to school, only more fun!