HGCS: What got you interested in caching?
Voodoo Chicken: When my family first moved to Texas from West Virginia, my son was given a science project where he had to collect a variety of wildflowers, press them and display them in an album. At some point in their education every child has done some version of this project with leaves or flowers but my son and I considered the project a huge waste of his time. We worked together in order to find all the different flower species and being new to the area I really enjoyed visiting the local parks. What I really loved was the hunt. During this same time I watched the movie “Into the Wild”, which is based on the true story of Christopher McCandless, an adventurer, who hitchhiked across country to live in the wilderness of Alaska. I believe these two things created a synergistic effect, so when I read about geocaching online I knew it was something I had to try. It took me about an hour between first reading about geocaching to researching the closest geocache to my home, doing the Google Earth recon, and finding the cache. After finding that first cache, I immediately went home and ordered a GPSr off Amazon. I found a dozen more caches using the Google Earth method, including my first puzzle before I received the GPSr in the mail.