I have managed to carry my hobby of geocaching across the pond and have grabbed three finds at Camp Arijan in Kuwait. Being a fobbit for the most part, I will be limited in my caching opportunities throughout this region. One thing I discovered, I will not cache alone with the high presence of muggles. This has given an opportunity to give others in my company a chance to see what the game is about first hand. Thus far, with three geocachers within the company, about 10% has witness the hunt in action and over half have verbal knowledge of the game. A few others have shown interest. The negative part of showing others; is that I am unable to pick a good cache, such as a regular size container or an interesting location. Being a military base in a flat desert, there is not much I can do about it.
My first find was on the way to the motorpool with a mechanic. The cache page indicated a small container and we found a altoids container next to a tent. I waited a couple of days for my next find after scouting out the location. Being in the location of the female barracks, I waited for a female cacher to go with me on this hunt as to not give the idea I am stalking around the female barracks. Soldiermama had attempted to find this cache twice before and thought the cache was missing. After a good search and thinking outside the box and remembering similiar type hides, I found the cache. After that find, I found another cache within Zone 6. Currently, I have two more caches to find in Zone 6. There are other caches to be found at Camp Arifjan and will go after them in time.
I will be hosting a cache event on May 1, to celebrate the birthday of Geocaching.
