I know, I know, German geocachers do actually find real caches and sign logs… I also know that there are geocachers in the U.S. who don’t play by the “rules.” The thing is there are many geocache owners who find that their cache has been logged by someone (strangely a lot of times a German) who has miraculously also logged a cache in Fiji (and South Africa, and BeJing and… ) the same day. I’m assuming that German GPS units also contain a teleportation device. You might think it is just me, but if you check out Cecil’s storefront you’ll see a “Don’t Be a Geoslug” t-shirt (blatant plug) this was actually designed for a fellow cacher in Illinois who was tired of people not actually visiting the caches he had placed. In some cases someone had actually gotten another geocacher to sign logs for them. After a conversation with some fellow geocachers I had thought about changing the wording to “nicht eine Geoschnecke sein.”

Like golf, geocaching is one of those “games” where character is tested. On the golf course, you keep score, in most cases no one is looking over your shoulder counting your strokes or seeing if you moved the ball. You know if you cheated, you know it’s cheating & you have to live with it. In geocaching, you know what caches you have found and which ones you haven’t. I know Sue has over 3,000 finds and I was there for a lot of them, but since being kicked off the “ProfessorZoom” account I have only counted caches that I have found since tagging along with Cecil (around 1300).