Fellow Geocachers,

I finally completed Offtrail's Why? Cache yesterday. I was riding past
it and decided to check on it and the bees had disappeared. I found it
quickly this time.  Anyway, I was feeling philosophical and wanted to
expand on my answer to why I cache here.

This quote explains it quite well:

"You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The
more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you
enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when
anything happens."
-- Ethel Barrymore (1879-1959), American actress

Geocaching is itself one more thing to love but it also provides a means
of broadening your horizons. You are exposed to new places, new ideas,
new technologies, new people, new problems, new solutions etc.  This
combination makes it so special.

So as we've seen, people lose jobs but they look for new ones and go
Geocaching a lot.  When you break-up with your girlfriend, you go
Geocaching and better yet, bring a potential new girl with you caching.
When your favorite camping spot is marred by a forest fire, Geoaching
gives you several spots just as nice or nicer to replace it with.

So, for me, caching is one of the things I do to ensure that when things
do go wrong, I still have plenty left to be interested in, to enjoy and
to love.

FroBro D-Dubs

PS
"I've always been in the right place 
at the right time. Of course, I steered
myself there." 
--Bob Hope Comedian