Kit Kat Katie

The hiking stick is a good idea, I've also considered bringing gardening gloves and tweezers, because I am a wuss and I don't want to accidentally grab something icky with my bare hands (winter is a good time for me, there's no bugs...). *shudder* Yeah, all of the caches I've found have been XS and in pretty busy areas, like Walmart and other public areas...I didn't realize there was a larger cache in the area, I'll have to seek it out, I often just check my map while I'm out to see if anything is nearby, and it's been these tiny tiny caches. (2/4 have been these tiny magnetic little screw top things (nanos, I guess!) ). Thanks for the encouragement, I'll try for some bigger caches and just keep on trucking!

So, I've been geocaching for a very short amount of time - I found my first cache just in the last month or so. But there's LOTS of caches near me, and I go out a-searching, and often come back with only a DNF to my name. I can't imagine that so many caches have been robbed in between the last time they were found (often October or November of last year, some even more recently), and I look and look and look...but I'd say out of 9 caches, I've found 4. This seems like a disheartening ratio to me. Any tips for getting better at looking for caches? I also suck at word searches, and Where's Waldo, if that tells you anything...

So, I'm going to Ireland for 3 months this summer, and I'm not sure about my phone's data situation when I get over there. (The aul' Irish boyfriend might be hooking me up with a local sim card and local data plan, but not sure, so I'm going to just assume I won't have data while I'm there) I was shocked when I saw that there's LOADS of caches near his town, and more than loads in Dublin, so I'm really excited to do some international treasure hunting...I'm just not sure how to go about it without having data while I'm out and about. How do you geocache without data? Thanks, Katie