princess leppard

That was funny. And it is my Mac that's loading them sideways. Heh.

I always have to come home to upload them as well (on the iPhone), but I haven't tried it since the latest update. My pictures always load sideways, which I don't understand but now just accept.

The very first time I found a nano. I was new to geocaching and had no idea what it was. I think I held it and put it back like four times before I thought, "well, maybe that IS the cache." So I went over to a bench and fiddled with it and realized it opened, and hey, there was the log. After that, I went to the geocaching store to see what other types of "weird" containers there were. Which is why I will still randomly poke at used chewing gum. So gross.

"I don't even want to know what I just touched."

I have two out right now, and one is traveling the world (it's been to Korea, most of Europe and about seven states) and the other one has gone about 70 miles in three months. I didn't put specific goals on them, other than I wanted my zombie trackable to see places zombies might hang out, but I just really wanted to see where they'd wind up. My sister and I took a trackable that was racing to Baja and dropped it in Los Angeles, but I see now that the owner wants it to come back home because whoever it was racing has gone missing. That was the closest I've ever come to helping a trackable meet its goal. Oh, and I helped one that wanted to visit all 50 states and I was able to knock two off its list.

I try not to hold onto them longer than a week. The only time I've kept one longer is because I couldn't find a cache large enough to hold one. (and I let the owner know what the hold up was) One of mine was picked up three weeks ago and I've heard nothing. I hope he or she places it soon or at least shoots me a note.

I don't use email on my phone, so I would've had to have gone home to send an email and I probably wouldn't have gone back to the cache as it took several attempts to figure out what the issue was. If the CO hadn't been online, it's true, I wouldn't have figured it out. I would've just logged a DNF and been done with it. But if you don't think it's relevant, that's fine.

I like the message center, and I'm not one of those young whippersnappers who need to get off anyone's lawn. I used it the other day to contact a CO about finding his cache; the difficulty and size of the cache were off, and by chatting on the message center, I was able to find it and then he adjusted the webpage for it. If we'd had to do that over email, I would've just given up on the cache.

So I had a really frustrating day today, finding only one of six attempts. (and I found the most difficult one. Go figure.) So here is my pet peeve from today: No hint, though this is surpassed by hints that aren't any help. One hint I had today was "nothing is just black or white." Maybe if I had found the cache, this would've made sense, but since I didn't, it was no help at all. Also, I think the difficulty on nanos needs to be at least a 2.5. I was looking for a "small" cache rated with 1.5 difficulty. Turned out to be a nano, and I never would've found it without the CO letting me know. He has, however, fixed the size and difficulty rating on the entry, so that's good. Hides in urban places with no parking. There is one near me on a stop sign in a busy intersection. There is no way to get this without being seen, and also you'd have to walk to a place where, really, no one is going to be walking. AND FINALLY, I was in a park and there was a beautiful fountain with a nice quote from Longfellow on it and I thought it would be a great place for a cache. But I can't put one there, because someone decided that putting one 200 feet from it in a mosquito infested overgrowth would be better. I feel better now.