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Hey that's one of the sites along our trip! Isn't that excavator magnificent? When we were there in September, the boom was fully extended, I would say that it was about 9 stories in the air. Is it just me? At the risk of being Torry'd mercilessly: I don't get it Torry. -2q

Great replies everybody. Thanks for your help. I have to say to Earthdog that of course we don't want to try to bend geocachers to our will, if we tried, I'm sure we'd get ex-communicated. And, umm, There this cool little biker-bar that's right on the route, so don't count out getting a few beers and maybe a prime rib sandwich. One of my concerns about a 20-stop cache is that it might take too much time and that obligation might be off putting; so I was thinking maybe we could try to group the caches in groups of 2-4. All of the sites average about 4 miles from each other so that way, people might not even see a benefit of going back to the highway. In response to 2qwerqe, You should go to St. Meinrads anyway because it is so beautiful. When you see the chapel you might think you're in Europe; but you're not. We actually have someone in Indiana who is going to hide and maintain all of our caches (with her two boys) so if anything was muggled, we could have it fixed within a week of its reporting. I really like the idea of hiding hints about the next stop with each cache and that sounds like a real ball so thanks for the suggestion! There are some really amazing spaces between the different sites and it is really eye-opening what a beautiful country we live in...but only of you go on the right streets. Would it be sacrilege to include a map with our cache? It would give a structure to the path without really revealing where the cache is actually hidden... Car 54, thanks for your input. New Harmony is a really cool little town, and there's a diner there with the best 1.98 bacon cheeseburgers I've ever had. We will definitely try to either present the series together or at least bookmark them in order with appropriate titles. Keep the advice flowing-you guys are the ones who know. That said, what, in your opinion, is really good swag? We've only done one geocache so far (here in Chicago) and it got removed from geocaching because the kid who set it up made it a little risky...lesson learned; but he did have cool schwag-it was an old Police t-shirt (like sting police)..I'm trying to figure out what kind of prize could be really appropriate for the project. One Idea I had would be to put sequentially numbered coins in each cache, and when each member completes the route, they can trade those coins for a book about this project that we're going to publish. Does that sound cool? Thanks again, nomovement

Hi, I'm new to the forum but I wanted to ask an Indiana-specific question and I figured this thread would be the best place. My architecture professor and I are working on a project where people use geocaching to retrace a pilgrimage that we've designed between New Harmony and St. Meinrad's Indiana. We had a studio project where each student designed a building for 20 sites along our route between the two cities and we want to go and plant those proposals along the route as soon as the weather allows. What I'm interested to know is how you guys, the veteran geocahers of Indiana, would propose we get people to actually follow the route we designed rather than just inputting the waypoints and hopping on and off the highways to find the above mentioned sites. We have directions and a pretty cool google-earth map; but we don't know how well the idea of explicit directions would mesh with geocaching--and the practice of geocaching is the real cool part of the project so we want to set this experience up in a way that would be inviting to geocachers. Any advice you have would be really wonderful! -Isaac/nomovement