For those who don’t know what I’m taking about… Let me enlighten you.  Geocaching is a delightful little pass time that, as Craig Dilger of the Daily Herald said in his article “New-age Treasure Hunts”, “Combines technology with the outdoors” (Dilger).  Specifically, the participant looks up locations of “Geocaches” on the internet, and then loads the latitude and longitude into a GPS device.  Then, they go to the site and dig up some sort of box or bag and admire the…  “Treasures” inside, hidden by another “Geocacher” as they’re apparently called.  Hard to believe, But it’s actually a big hobby.  Yeah…  People do it.

Not only that…  They enjoy it too!  In the article from the Daily Herald, Dilger tells us about a young couple (Jacob and Helen Barlow) who met…  While Geocaching.  It was a Geocaching blind date, no less.  How lovely!  The two hit it off, of course (No huge nerd can resist another huge nerd) and met up several times after that (to go Geocaching, obviously).  Once, even, at an actual, honest Geocaching event.  Now they’re married and they go out Geocaching every day, according to the article.  Between the two of them they’ve found over 4,400 Geocaches. “My favorite part about Geocaching is that it is a hobby that we share together” said Mr. Barlow.  Whether he was referring to his newly wedded wife or the entire human race I can’t say for sure.

Lovely…  Just lovely.  If that isn’t alarming enough…  Apparently there are 487,460 active caches worldwide, 37,749 Geocachers registered on the web and 9,688 Geocaches hidden in Utah alone.  It makes you wonder what exactly we’re all doing with our short time here on this little planet.

Love and Madness,

D. Bradford

p.s. – Be sure to visit www.geocaching.com...  Loser.