What May Happen Next

It was beautiful to have finally cached again this past weekend after such a long layoff from the field. What scares me most now is the duration that is about to occur before we get the opportunity to cache again. With Erin deep into student teaching and myself rapidly approaching crunch time in school it may be months before we get the chance again. It is depressing because geocaching is something I look extremely forward to doing on the weekend because it takes my mind off of all this school stuff that clogs my brain Monday through Friday. Our goal of having 500 finds by the time of our Arizona trip in May looks very bleak at this point and that is sad as well. I realize that it is really time to get my work done to insure my success following my graduation from college. Everyone needs a break from time to time though. I just will not be able to utilize my breaks to go geocaching because A. Erin has the GPS with her back home in Crystal Lake and B. Erin is back in Crystal Lake geocaching. I suppose that if my urge became way too large to handle I could go back to the old times and try to find a few using Google maps. Then again, Erin will not be able to accompany and I do not enjoy myself when I am not with her. Besides, caching alone can indeed become very lonely in itself. Basically, it is going to take a while for me to convince myself that geocaching is going to have to be put on the back burner for a bit. School is very important to me and there is no sense in slacking too much now. I am really hoping that by keeping up with this blog and my website, my enthusiasm will stay positive and when the times comes for me to cache again I will be totally ready.