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It was the big suburban with flashing lights that had FBI emblazoned on the side that kinda gave it away. Oh, and the agents with the FBI uniforms & guns helped too.

It wasn't that they just asked me questions. It was that they used the whole 'good cop, bad cop' routine with me. And I assure you, the ‘bad cop’ didn't have a very friendly tone.

Nope. My friend’s printer was on the fritz, so I scribbled everything on a small card.

I had just found my 6th geocache in the DC on 1/21/05 & I was cold, tired, and ready to go home. I found parts one and two easily, but it took me about 10 minutes to find part three. Shortly thereafter I was looking at a DC map trying to find the nearest metro when an FBI car showed up with its lights flashing. I was hoping to ask them where the nearest metro was, but when I went to ask them (there were two FBI agents: one man and one woman), they started interrogating me for 20 minutes. Here’s the dialogue as I remember it: FBI woman: How long have you been in the area? Me (confused): What do you mean? FBI man: How long have you been here (around the Canadian Embassy)? Me (perplexed): About 10 minutes I suppose. FBI woman: Do you have a PDA on you? Me: No. FBI woman: Do you have a GPS on you? Me: Yes. FBI man: What were you doing with it? Me: (An explanation of geocaching followed and they both looked confused—or at least they played it that way.) FBI man: Can we see your ID? FBI agents: (At this point a long string of questions followed, ex: Why are you here? Have you been to DC before? When and how many times? When did you get here? Where are you staying? When are you leaving?) FBI woman: Have you been by the national archives today? Me: No, but I was by the Art museum. (Shortly after, I did remember I walked by the archives on my way to a geocache, but that was three hours beforehand; they had been watching me geocache all over DC!) Me: What are you going to do with my information? FBI man: (Calls the information in) FBI woman: We're not going to type this information into a database (yeah right), we just need to check the information with headquarters. We talk to anyone with a GPS or PDA who has been in the vicinity of multiple federal buildings. FBI man: (Gets off the phone after calling in my info). We have a problem. (They have a private conference.) FBI man: (They come back to me, but did not explain ‘the problem.’) Can we have your home and office phone numbers? FBI woman: Thanks for your time. It sounds funny, but it was incredibly frustrating. My DC friend said this happens to people all the time. It’s so nice to see our tax dollars at work…

When the park ranger says, "you know it's going to be dark in a minute," and you respond, "well I just want to take a quick hike down the trail."

"...meines Travelbugs" would be correct. The author is correctly using the genitive case for a masculine noun in order to express possession.

I’m going to be making a fun cache either called “storyboard” or “it’s a group thing…” in a week or two, and I’d love your input. The goal of the cache is to get cachers to create a unique story as part of claiming a cache “find.” I’ll have the story started on the cache website, and update it as cachers add more to the story. The first step will be for cachers to pick up one or more slips of paper with miscellaneous words on them from the cache. The next step will be for each cacher to write at least one paragraph including those words; as I said before, the short paragraph will be a continuation from the previous paragraph/overall story. If I’m lucky the story will be interesting, or at least entertaining. Please submit words that are either 1) your favorite, 2) just plain weird, or 3) obscure. Feel free to submit as many words as you want or to submit other ideas to make the cache interesting. All word submissions should be PG since kids should also be able to contribute. I’ll be taking ideas over the next week & then submit the cache for approval around Christmas time. I’ll post the link here when the cache is approved. Thanks!

My girlfriend and I came across a naked person who was sunning himself beside a pond. We were taking a trail that was inside a park but also beside some heavily wooded private property. He watched us for a while (probably didn't want us taking pictures) and then later ignored us. We just ignored him and prayed that he didn't notice us digging through brush... The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are okay, then it's you. --Rita Mae Brown

i'll get this sooner or later... Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. --John Philpot Curran

testing again... Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. --John Philpot Curran

testing Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. --John Philpot Curran