The Start of the Obsession

Back in September, we went with a friend of ours (Mrs. Booney of BooneyHunters) from school to grab something to eat in between our college classes. While driving, she pointed to a spot and said, "There's a geocache hidden there." Having no clue what she was referring to, our response was, "A geowhat??" So she turned the jeep around, pulled into the parking lot, jumped out, lifted a lamp post skirt and picked up a 35mm film canister. As we pulled the logsheet from the container, she explained to us what this sport was all about and we were fascinated.

A few days later, on September 21, 2007, Mrs. Booney took us around to a few caches in St. Augustine, FL and we made our first finds. We were immediately hooked! The very next day we arranged to meet Mrs. Booney in Jacksonville at an Off Your Rocker cache to go on our first long cache run. We were already itching for our very own GPS, so before we met her, we headed to Gander Mountain and purchased a Garmin Vista HCx.

This hobby of ours quickly grew into an obsession and before long, we were caching almost every day. By the end of December, we WERE caching every day and still are.