[THE TESLA PURPLE ENERGY SHIELD]

HEY! applying homeopathic principles to the Freudian elements of the Mood Tube, combined with exotic and esoteric electronic and astral circuitry of the Tesla Personal Oscillator - try one of these! Smaller and exponentially more powerful.

But it is not Purple.

 

It'll never work unless it is purple

[is it DNF or Still Looking]

I stopped by yesterday at a puzzle cache. I did not have the right answers, but went home and worked on it some more. Today, I am sure I can find it (unfortunately not FTF).

 

So, as the title says, would you log a DNF or would you say you have not given up and say you are just taking a long time to find?

[I've Got Swag]

as a semi-newb myself, I've found you need several classes/sizes of swag. minis (film cans) cannot hold much, so I have some guitar picks and pins. Larger cache boxes have cooler stuff so I have key clips and other cooler stuff myself to trade with.

[With the warm weather comes the bloodsuckers.....]

Be interesting to see what everyones favorite form of repellent is.

Avon Skin so Soft. (SoS). No deet, smells pretty good, yet manages to make the bugs not like you.

 

Is it OK to leave small lotion bottles in the cache? I've seen them leave the individual deet wipes.

[waterproof paper?]

I've seen a few caches that call for the log to be signed in pen as the log is "waterproof paper."

 

What is it and where do you get it?

[Drug stuff near a Cache?!?!]

Still a tadpole myself (30 caches - all urban easy finds), but I have alread found 2 homeless homes and a crack stash. The drugs were in a zip lock about where I expected to find the geo-cache. Thought it might have been muggled, but then looked in the baggie.

 

As to the homeless, just have to treat them like other muggles, don't let them see you retrieve or stash a cache - they will probably muggle it to see if there is anything there they can pawn.

 

As for the drug stash, walked out of the park, made a call to the police from a pay phone. I didn't really want to explain how I found a stash of drugs in a drain pipe under a park pedestrian bridge.

[Caching with my nephew]

... Well, I think I know what I'll be getting him for Christmas!!

 

Make it for grades in June. Why wait all the way to Christmas?

 

Grampa's can give presents anytime.

[etiquete for logging virtual caches?]

Do I post my log as a find after I send the requried email?

 

Do I wait on a return email before logging my find?

 

Just trying to understand the sequence of events to earn my first virtual cache...

[What's the fastest mph you have seen on your GPS?]

 

On another note: My Garmin and my truck's speedometer never agree. The garmin reads a few percent lower, consistently. I bought the off-road package. Maybe it's a big tire thing? It's a stock option though, so I would hope that the speedometer would be accurate. Go figure...

At least one auto manufacturer is being sued for setting the speedometers 5% fast. This gets you to your "out of warrenty" milage 5% quicker, or it gets you to premium miles on your lease quicker and 5% more of them.

 

On the plus side, if you believe your speedo, it will keep you from getting tickets as well.

[Geocaching in reverse?]

got the .klm file on google earth? View the area that the cache was found and see if any caches are on google earth..

[What do you trade?]

I've been leaving scratch-off type lottery tickets - I know kids are not supposed to play, but they love doing the scratch-off thing.

 

I keep hoping to read that someone won a grand from one of them......

[Who Deaf Geocacher]

I don't speak ASL, but it looks like he was having a good time explaining GC'ing.

[Just maybe...]

I don't think so. All the people in the parking lot have pronounced shadows. This red thing has none.

Blanket? Trash? Shopping Cart?

[Anyone Else Find Something Illegal While Out Caching?]

Why do people "call the cops" when they found weed or weed related items? What's the purpose? I don't get it. Are they trying to get someone in trouble? Would that make them feel good? Do they want a pat on the back? Really what does this accomplish? I'd never interfere in someone else life in a negative way, why do people insist on being whistle blowers? What harm is being dome if someone grows a little pot? If you don't like it, don't smoke it. And don't give me "It's about the kids" They shouldn't even recognize it and if they do then they are old enough to have connections at school and your best bet at keeping them away from it is education and respect. I can understand wanting to shut down a Meth lab, but weed? Com on.

Because I had a friend that was killed by drug dealers while he was "just messing around with weed."

Because I don't like illegal drugs or dealers or where the money trails lead.

Because pot does affect your brain and your lungs.

[First Time Placing a Cache , So much trouble ready to call it quits for good !]

We just started a few weeks ago. We have not tried to hide one yet. I was unaware of the guidelines. I am glad I saw this so I know to read well and pay attention so we do not encounter the same pitfalls.

ditto