It all started at New Years Eve 2009…when I was looking at the new year about to start and thought “what adventure are we going to have in 2010?” I started to surf the web and found the FIFA website.

This triggered all the things people said about how great Germany was and the atmosphere. I’ve wanted to go to Africa and this seemed like a great way to combine a new place to explore and the World Cup 2010. So I put in my bid for 15 tickets and waited…..

Feb 28th 2010 – An email arrived with “Congratulations you have 7 tickets….and we charged your credit card $3,000″

So the next few months were planning out where to go and what to see.

Of course, I thought “I wonder if there are any geocaches in South Africa?” and not really expecting much….

I ran a few pocket queries and woah, was I surprised….this is just a few miles of Cape Town…

And this picture is a 10 mile radius. Incredible amount of South Africa geocaching!

We ended up with ~50 South Africa geocaches and got one in every city with a football match we attended. Not bad.

To see more about the football, you can see this geocache blog post with a short video on the goals, cities, games, and fun!

So how can you find what your geocaching statistics are? I use geocaching tools called It’s Not About the Numbers that is FREE. It walks you through the whole process, to go geocaching website, get your personal file, and the upload it. It allows you to export it through an HTML export that you can them copy to anywhere else you like – on your geocaching profile page, on a personal geocaching website or blog, like this one, or anything else you can think of.

Part of the geocaching tools that I like so much is the visual nature of what your geocaching statistics are. You can see the states or places across the world that you have been geocaching. I’ve gotten a few geocaches in Europe now, with Cyprus being a place I had great fun in.

You can also see the Combination grid of terrain and difficulty. This is my favorite thing to look at because I’d like to have at least one entry in each box. I tried for a 5/5 geocache a few weeks ago, but alas it was not to be. I’ll be back for that one though to get it included in my numbers.

The geocaching tools also includes the type of geocaches you have found and the size of the geocaches when you go geocaching. The most common type of geocache is the traditional geocache but I’ve tried to get a few different ones like the virtual or webcam versions.

So go ahead and see my geocaching statistics and try adding yours to your geocaching website. And maybe you’ll agree with me that It’s not just about the Numbers….

Stat Summary

Where I’ve Cached

Caching Milestones

 

Maps

Charts and Graphs