As we have "progressed" through the millennia, man exited the caves and built domiciles. But for all the modern conveniences of the homes of today, men - especially married men or otherwise attached men - have sought to return to the cave.
It is a quest that has been passed on from generation to generation.
In mid-evil times, men built castles with secret passageways to locales near the dungeon, in which others would gather. King Arthur and the Knights of the Roundtable never meet in a main room of the castle, but rather a 'cave' Arthur built to get away from Guinevere.
Christopher Columbus too had a small room built aboard the Santa Maria where he and his closest shipmates would gather away from the rest of the crew.
In the mid-west during the early 1900s, men came up with the idea of tornado shelters that served the rest of the year as wonderful caves.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, men used the threat of Russian nuclear attack to build bomb shelters in the backyard.

Now, because of the lack of mountains and the fact that there are just too many men these days and what caves are available would be as crowded as Hooters on Buy 10, Get 10 Free Wings night, man has sought to recreate the cave within their homes.
The garage.
A true man garage is not merely a place to park the car and store tools. No, a true man cave garage is everything our forbearers the cavemen discovered millions of years ago.
A true man cave garage has a place for man and his men friends to gather, a refrigerator to keep the beer cold, a workbench to create masterful projects, a radio to listen to baseball, a TV (with satellite or cable hookup) to watch any other sport - except figure skating and soccer - and other items by which to entertain ourselves.
And, especially in Texas, the spoils of the hunt - namely a 16-point buck shot near Cut and Shoot - can be found mounted on the wall above the meat freezer.
It also contains artwork, just like our forefather cavemen. Although these days, drawings of bison and recreations of the great hunt, are replaced with posters of fast cars and the Girls of Hooters calendar.
Oh, there is the occasional artwork from the kids that can be found hanging on the beer fridge door via an industrial magnet.
The rules of the man cave are simple. No women, except to bring us the occasional snack refills and no watching figure skating.
It is also a good idea to keep the kids away until the boys reach the age of 10 or 11. It is at this age the young lad can enter the cave so he can experience his first beer burp.
Oh, and it is optional if the garage is actually used to park the cars. If given a choice between having a place to park the car and a man cave, the choice is almost always man cave.
Cars these days are built to withstand the elements.
The only drawback to these man cave garages is that for married men and those with females in the domicile, women can easily encroach upon the sanctity of the cave.
I once heard of a man whose cave was spoiled when his wife put up curtains and placed out potpourri. This reminds me, additional rules of the man cave: No curtains and no potpourri.
The no potpourri rule is especially important because all too often guests to the cave will mistake the bowl of mixed flowers for exotic beer nuts. Not a good thing.
To that end, some friends of mine have taken the man cave garage to the next logical level. They have built a community man cave garage. Somewhere along the piney tree lined roads of a Brazoria County town, sits the HWC Garage.

For those who have forgotten your Our Gang/Little Rascals history, HWC is He-Man Woman-Haters Club.
A photo of the inside of the HWC Garage is at left.
Complete with a place to park several high-end cars, a work rack, several plasma screen TV's, a banging sound system, a smoking room, a cigar humidor, a full bar, posters of cars and girlie pictures on the wall, a projector screen to be able to have man movie night and a digital keypad for the password (no more 'Women Stink').
We even had T-shirts and hats made.
The HWC Garage is scheduled to open in a few weeks. I am forbidden giving out the location for fear that we will be overrun by men whose wives have encroached upon the inner sanctum.
Needless to say, it is worth considering in your community as a public service that men should get together and create a community man cave garage.
If you do, tell us about your plans so that others may be inspired to return to the cave. Or even if you have your own man cave garage, send us your pics and describe what makes it unique.

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Speaking of living in a cave, be sure to check out Friday's edition of For Men Only. We will have as our special guest Kevin Burke, the star of Defending the Caveman in Las Vegas.