Welcome to my blog!

This blog documents my adventures in Geocaching.  While I'm relatively new to caching, I have been involved with technology and computers for most of my life, and am hoping to pass some of that knowledge on via this blog.  I also would like to share pictures and notes from my adventures, as the more people that get involved with caching, the merrier!

If you are unfamiliar with Geocaching and would like to learn more, here is a handy guide.  If you are familiar with caching, I hope that you find this blog interesting and informative!

A little bit about me:

• I'm abnormally tall - 6'8" to be precise.  This really doesn't mean anything except that it makes tree hides a bit easier for me to find.
• I often cache with my 7 year old son, and occasionally cache with my wife.  She's 4'11" tall, so I find the high stuff and she looks under rocks and bushes.
• I grew up in South Jersey, and currently live in Delaware County, PA.  Most of my caching (so far) has been in Delaware and Montgomery counties in PA, and Burlington and Camden counties in NJ.
• I use a Garmin eTrex 20 for caching, though my first 20 or so caches were found with Google Maps.
• I have known about Geocaching since 2005, and actually signed up for my account in December of that year.  I did not actually go Geocaching until 2011, and only looked for one that year.  In 2012 I started caching as an official hobby, and racked up over 170 finds from late July until late November.

A few other things:

• I will never divulge the location of a cache in situ.  I may show the sights on the way, or the cache container (if it doesn't impact the clue), but I will never show you a cache in its habitat.  This is a rule right from the folks at Geocaching.com, but I want to explicitly state that I think that part of the fun is finding the cache, and this blog will be as spoiler free as possible.
• That being said, if you need a hint finding a cache that I have placed or found, or want to schedule a meetup, or are in the area and want to go caching, feel free to contact me by sending a message via my Geocaching profile page.
• Just so things are transparent - I am setting this blog up in January 2013, but am backdating my first posts to dates appropriate to when I found the caches.  Once I am caught up, things will be posted on time.  I'm not trying to be deceptive or anything, I simply have finally collected enough material to make this an interesting blog to visit.  I'm going off of my original notes, so you can read this in sequence and see how much I have learned in the short time I've been doing this.

This is far from being my first blog, and like many other folks, I have started and abandoned a few others along the way.  Geocaching is the first hobby in years that has interested me enough to want to write about it, and it's only now, after I have collected several months worth of content, that I feel that I can commit myself to doing this.

Well, that's it for the intro.  Please feel free to leave comments, or contact me by sending a message via my Geocaching profile if you have the need to send a longer message.