"It's all your fault
." I've received many text messages like this from AnimalMan_SD. I introduced him to geocaching way back in 2011, actually through his son in a geocaching merit badge class. But it wasn't until 2016 that he finally caught the caching bug and started to significantly increase his finds count.
"I was 20 minutes late for a meeting this morning because I stopped for GCxx....It's all your fault
"
"I got my office loafers all muddy at lunchtime trying to find GCxx....It's all your fault
"
"I almost got bitten by a raccoon reaching for GCxx......It's all your fault
"
Of course these messages were always accompanied by a funny story of his (mis)adventure.
In the past 2 years AnimalMan_SD has reached 1000 cache finds in 20 states and 3 countries, including several oldies like Beverly, Mingo, Power Island, and Europe's First.
He has joined me on several caching adventures, both locally, and on out-of-state road trips. He always has plenty of stories to share, and is a great friend to me within & outside of our geocaching worlds.
Now join me in congratulating him on 1000 finds!