Are you a Geoholic? Traditional Cache

A Geo-Holic is someone who suffers from the need to go find geocaches. Their body is dependent on running out and finding any type of containers. They will run out any time, day or night, rain or shine, sweltering heat or freezing cold, in order just to sign their "pseudo name" to get a smiley on their page at Geocaching.com.

People who suffer from geoholicism are obsessed with geocaching and cannot control how much they run out to find a cache, even if it is causing serious problems at home, work and financially. They have completely lost their control over running for a FTF or just to find a piece of tupperware.
Some moderate geo-holics go out just on the weekends to find a few caches. Others, true "WEEKEND GEO-HOLICS", spend the entire Saturday and/or Sunday geocaching. These types can find in excess of 100 caches in a day.
Some of these types may run out early morning before work to get their fix. Or spend their lunch hours running to get a cache. There is ALWAYS a cache on the way home, even though it is 4 miles out of the way. It is there, calling you.

Scientific research reveals that geoholicism seems to more severely affect men than women, however I am the minority here as it has certainly affected me I must admit.

What are the symptoms of geoholism?

* Typically, they are last person to be aware that he/she has a serious geocaching problem.
* They are in denial of having a problem
* Geocaching alone or in secret
* Left work early or cut classes or rescheduled appointments so you can go get the FTF
* Own two or more GPS units
* Bushwacking into the woods just to save time to get to another cache
* Not being able to limit how much geocaching they do
* Blacking out - not able to remember chunks of geocaching time
* Having 4 or more queries of geocaches loaded into their GPS
* Log into geocaching.com more than once a day
* Doing a power trail just to feel good
* Having relationship problems (triggered by geocaching)
* Having problems with the law (caused by geocaching)
* Is your car or your dog a travel bug
* Requiring a large number of cache finds to feel its effect
* Nausea, sweating, or even shaking when not geocaching
* Made geocache containers to give away free to other geocachers to hide so you could find them and thus increase your total cache count
* Dream about geocaching
* Plan vacations or holiday outings around a location because of the geocaches nearby
* Attending geocaching events hoping to win the raffle for a FTF

Binge caching has become a growing problem in many areas recently. Many communities are seeing geocachers feeling up trees and telephone poles just to get the smiley.

One thing we all need to remember:
Nobody ever found a adventure or had this much fun being a couch potato.

Although it is not a requirement to log this cache, I would like to hear about your best Geoholic run for a cache.

Now go get that cache!!!!

All of this information was obtained from my therapist who is trying to figure out why I feel so compelled to Geo-cache all the time!!