mdplayers

We hunted a cache that was in a tree. Too high for anyone (except mayby Shaq) to reach. The description said to bring a small child or a ladder. We brought a not so small child and boosted him onto hubby's shoulders. Cache retrieved, log signed, cache replaced, child returned to ground level. Just make sure the description mentions a retreival tool might be necessary due to height.

No advice... Just best wishes and prayers.

If you know you've touched PI, you can wash with dish detergent (or some other soap that is known to cut grease/oil) to remove the oil (can't spell the proper name of it). I usually use dish detergent to wash my hands after gardening/working in the yard since I am allergic to PI. This helps minimize the outbreaks.

As the parent of a 15 year old... Please stress to your son that you are glad that his trip was safe... THEN remind him that it is not truely safe for anyone (at any age) to go on an adventure alone without someone knowing where they are, when they will return. Help him with the means to stay in touch (cell phone?). Provide him with a water bottle or camel backpack, easy to carry appropriate snacks. Work with him on road safety including helmet use. Do all of the above in a calm manner and speak to him as though he understands what you are saying. Anger will only breed more anger. I find that laying out my expectations clearly helps. I only wish my 15 yr old would get on a bike for a 1 mile ride, much less 23! Best of luck to you!

I agree. I live on Maryland's Eastern Shore and would like to limit my PQ's to the Shore rather than get caches for Baltimore and other points across the Chesapeake Bay when I ask for a 50 mile radius.

Of course if means something to us. It means someone out there (you) has been having fun too! Good luck with the next 1000.

Congratulations!

I had something like this happen to me when I test drove a car at a dealer. The car I was driving was owned by my father. I didn't give the dealer any indication that I would be trading in that car or that I owned it or that he could enter the car. When I got home my father asked if I liked the car I test drove! What?! How did he know? The dealer called him to report that his car had been stolen and was at their dealership! He told them that it wasn't stolen when they read my drivers license information to him (they copied my license before I could test drive their car).

My hubby would grab one of those quick! Any way to protect little hands from the hook would be appreciated. (Small cork, wad of clay?)

When our son was little we were doing more camping and hiking than geocaching (not around way back then). We used a backpack. I think someone mentioned Kelty and I think that's the brand we had. We really liked it. Check for one that has a 'kick stand' so you can stand it up, put the kid in, and then get it on your back. I could get my son in the backpack and on my back from the back of the minivan unassisted. My brother travelled most of Europe in a backpack in the early '70s. And my father took my son up on a roof in the backpack (Dad was a roofer and got an emergency call while he was babysitting and never thought twice about taking the kid up on the roof with him!).

Vinny Gambini: Eggs and grits. I like grits, too. How do you cook your grits? Do you like them regular, creamy or al dente? Mr. Tipton: Just regular I guess. Vinny Gambini: Regular. Instant grits? Mr. Tipton: No self respectin' Southerner uses instant grits. I take pride in my grits. Sorry, grits always brings My Cousin Vinny to mind.

I have on several occasions met other 'cachers on the trails. Once was when we pulled into a parking lot of a small city park. The occupants of the only other car there were shuffling papers around and when we got out of the truck with GPSr's, hiking poles, and our paper, they rolled down the window and told us the log was wet but otherwise it was a good cache. Another time we were doing a special series in DE and as we walked towards one of the caches we spotted someone kneeling down where we suspected the cache to be. She turned around and I discovered it was someone I am acquainted with from Girl Scouts. We had a quick chat about how strange it is to run into each other like that and went our separate ways. Sometimes it's cool to run into another 'cacher.

Really? Cars... in the parking lot?! Go figure.

JK Rowling admits freely to resurrecting arcane words and using obscure historical names as a basis for names in her popular series. The existance of 'muggle' prior to Ms. Rowling using it isn't surprising to me at all. BTW her name is pronounced like 'row' (to row a boat) '-ling'.

A proposal cache beat how my hubby proposed to me... he asked me while we were sitting in my office at work. Nothing special, nothing sweet, just plain asked me while I was at work. Blah. Oh how I would have loved to have been proposed to in some more romantic manner. Oh Well, at least he's been a good, solid, stable hubby/father for 18 years. That's what counts after all.

do you know the zipcode of the city/town you will be visiting? If yes, enter that in the appropriate field on the Hide and Seek page (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/) of the Geocaching.com website. If you don't know the zipcode, try entering appropriate keywords in the 'by Address' field on that page. Like the name of a popular attraction, state park, name of a town or city.

First, Welcome to the hobby/sport/addiction! Second, I think you should find more caches before hiding any of your own. Seeing what containers other hiders use, where they hide them, how they hide them will help you make your hide(s) better. Just my opinion....

Water... after starting out on a 'short walk to one cache' and then walking 8 miles without water or food to get all of them around the pond, I'll never never never get out of the truck without my waterbottle or camelback backpack.

LoyalDipity, Remember that you won't need to make the account(s) for your kid(s) Premium Accounts. Since you have a Premium Account, you can do the PQ's and just have them log the finds (and DNF's) under their accounts.

After about a month of caching, I had to go to PA for business and picked up three finds while there. We live close to DE and often cache 'out of state'.

October 1, 2007 by mdplayers This is our first find! I just learned about Geocaching this past weekend and decided to try it tonight. There were four of us and we looked and looked. The youngest (13) found it! Great Fun, I think we are all hooked. Took the TB, left a bobber. -------------------- This was a cache right here in town. The 13 year old is now 15. Three of us still cache, the fourth just never took to it (he'd rather fish).

Elk Neck SP has tons of good caches. We just did 10 of them on Mother's Day.

Welcome to the addiction. We are from the Eastern Shore. Maybe we'll meet up at one of the local events.

I'm allergic to bees so I don't even go out in my backyard barefoot for fear of stepping on a honey bee. So no, barefoot caching is not something I'd be doing.

My favorite holiday! I'm planning a huge party.