Jackalgirl

Ach! I'm sorry I didn't get in on this early enough to snag an ALE Allendale. Very, very pretty coins, though, and I'm glad I got here soon enough to still be able to get ANY version of the coin. : )

How about doing the 911 in a glitter gold? We did a version of it with the text in yellow; the problem is that yellow (at least, Process Yellow) is close enough to the base color of the metal that it didn't really stand out (assuming, of course, that the metal is pale and especially yellow-ish and not, say, black nickel). If there's a glitter color that's a very pale, pale yellow, though, the might be very nice indeed...what do you think, Mike?

You are correct, small change. It must be the perfectionist in me. Even the lady at the mint said something about that to me last night. No sweat -- I just wanted to make sure I wasn't going crazy. ; ) Question: do you think that the 911 text might look better if it were in some off-white color, perhaps a glitter type? I'm thinking that maybe it doesn't stand off of the textured background enough, but plain white would probably overwhelm and detract from the three symbols (and perhaps having the text in some off-white color might also make it so that the white of the snake in the EMT symbol is not quite so isolated; as it stands, it's the only white on the coin). I'm not sure, though...I'd have to try it out and look at it (at home). What do you think?

Howdy, Mike - Did you change the tower's radiating circles to raised metal and process yellow vice the alternating red & black bands, or is there something weird going on with the way the .GIF is being displayed on the screen?

Yes, PLEASE! I'm in Japan, so I can't make the event. I would be extremely glad to buy a set. : ) Fair winds & following seas!

I use them. That way, I know whether I can take my husband & baby along. In fact, since we're so new to caching in general, we aren'y even looking for caches that indicate they're difficult or non-stroller-friendly. It's a very useful feature, the ability to list attributes.

Howdy -- I'm brand new to geocaching (found two caches so far, 1 DNF), but I wholeheartedly agree with Ambrosia. I really enjoy taking pictures, especially because what I like about geocaching so much (so far) is the fact that it gets me to find stuff that I probably would have never found, or even bothered to look for, without the incentive of finding a cache. The pictures in this thread are terrific -- some of them are quite breathtaking. Great pictures of birds & bugs! : ) I also plan to post at least one picture for each cache I find, if only to express how the locations these cachekeepers have found are really interesting! My best picture so far is below (another water lily for your daughter, Ambrosia). Enjoy, and I hope to run across more pictures both here and in the logs. Thanks for the thread!

Oh, me three! Please PM me with what you need me to send (I can do paypal). My husband would get a kick out of these! : )

I'm not sure if this is a true statement, but I suspect that best way to do it is to upload the map to an image hosting site (Google "image hosting" if you don't have your own server). If you've got a blog, you could also post it as a part of a blog post (I believe Blogger lets you do this), maybe an article about Geocaching, or whatnot. Once you have it uploaded, you'll need to find the URL. If it isn't obvious from the site what the URL is (i.e., if the image hosting site doesn't tell you "to access this file, use the following HTML code"), get to the point where you can see it. For example, if you've uploaded it into a Blogspot blog, look at your blog. Then use the View pull-down menu and select "View Source". Find the reference to the graphic -- it'll look something like this: <img border=0 src="http://file_location/your-graphic-filename.ext" alt="alternate text"> Note that it won't actually say "file_location"; it'll be the actual WWW location of your file. Copy this <img> tag and then paste it into your Profile Details. I am sure there are some other ways to get pictures up into geocaching.com. I know that when you upload a picture that's part of one of your logs, it goes into your gallery, and then could be called (again, pull up the source of the gallery page to find the <img> tag to copy). However, I haven't figured out whether you can create a log that's not actually a part of a cache or trackable log (and I don't imagine it's a good idea at all to simply upload a map graphic to a cache log -- one that's not related to the cache at all -- just for the purpose of getting it online so that you can link to it. Wouldn't recommend that at all). Hopefully someone will be able to tell you if that's possible. P.S. The "alt" text that's part of the <img> tag, above, is what pops up when people let their mouse cursors "linger" on your image. It is also what is read by software used for the visually impared. I always recommend putting some content in here for that reason. I hope this helps!

Lewis, you're a prince/princess! : ) Thank you kindly, -- JG

Hello, all! I'm new to geocaching here in Japan. I'm working on putting together a cache and was wondering if someone with .PDF-making and .DOC-reading capability could take the Japanese stash note off of the Seek Page and make it into a .PDF for me. I don't have Microsoft Word and the software that I do have (WordPerfect) can't seem to read the file, even though I do have the language packs installed. If it wouldn't be too much trouble, that is! Thanks in advance -- -- JG

I've been thinking about this, because I think it's an intriguing idea; at the same time, I don't disagree with what Eartha posted. Keep in mind, though, that I am brand-spanking new to all of this, so please pardon me if my lack of experience shows. Anyway, here's my thought: I checked the rules and don't see anything that states that a Travel Bug can't be attached to a a container. So what about creating a kind of "Anti-Litter Matrioshka Mystery Cache", nesting containers inside one another, each of which is a Travel Bug but which contains all of the elements of a cache? So you'd plant the first container as a cache, with the stipulation that a finder a) clean up the area the cache is and take the TB container inside the cache to another cache-worthy-yet-littered location and set it up/register it as a new cache. The finder of that cache would do the same thing, and so forth, iteratively, until the final TB container is converted into a cache. At this point, the Matrioshka is complete and all of its containers are now traditional caches (but could still contain the request that finders clean up the cache's area). Each container's TB "Goal" would be to be converted into a cache in a new area that needs some attention (but might not necessarily be CITO-worthy). The TB page would point to the new cache page. Each container's log book would need to contain a list of the TB numbers of all of the containers within it, as well as its parent's TB number. That would maintain a link of connection between the caches (and allow interested parties to find out what happened to the "children" containers of the "parent" container by cross-referencing child TB numbers to new cache numbers here). As long as all of the other guidelines were followed in regards to making a cache, would this be uncool? What would be the etiquette for what to do with the container's tag once it's converted to a cache?