fly46

Okay, so today, I hopped on the website and searched for caches in my area because a geocacher just added like 10 of them... Only to find that one of them... (it's called APHORISMS * CACHE)... was started about the Ashtabula Train Wreck Disaster.... So why the *grr* you ask? Being a poor, broke college student I can't afford a GPS, so a friend of mine, who said I could borrow his GPS whenever I want, didn't answer my last email to him, and that cache, which I had all planned out and was ready to set up, got started in the meantime... *GRR* Anyone want to buy me a GPS? ~fly46, very mad because she can't do her cache now.

Hey, how cool would it be for someone to find Oobi and attatch him to a travel bug??? A perfect pairing of the old and the new!

Well, my story is alot more dark than most of yours... I have two friends named Steph who got the nicknames of Duck and Frog so that we could call them by those and not get confused on which steph we meant... So one day, Frog and I were talking on the phone and I was having a bad day. So I said... "You know what.. You're a frog, so I'm a fly.. eat me and put me out of my misery!" My other handle that I use is nascar related, and when I went on a message board for a different driver, I used fly because I couldn't use a handle for a different driver on someone's board. So, fly kinda stuck... Then I ended up a couple places where fly was either already used or too short, so I added the 46 because it's the car number of someone I know that races.

On most of them, if you read the clues you don't need the GPS... but then when there are multi caches or something, you totally need a gps.. There's also quite a few virtuals near athens, ga (uga campus - search 30605 zip) that you totally don't need a gps for... I have friends on the campus and I asked one if he recognized the tree by description (there are like six that are all trees) and he could tell me exactly where they were... ~fly46, GeoCacher who doesn't own a GPS

Okay... So I want to attatch some sort of clear container to my TBs so that I can include the instructions for the bug and maybe an item. (I'm actually thinking of doing a NASCAR Travel Bug Race, so I wanted to include a NASCAR diecast car) Anyway, I need some sort of container that will stand up. and that I can use for this.... Does anyone have any ideas????

Well, guys... I know someone touched on this, but I'm going to elaborate... I'm going to my friend's house in September/October in Georgia as well as a family reunion in Tennessee at the same time. My friend has class and work the whole time I am there, and I plan to cache the whole time I am gone, just so I have something to do while my friend is in class/at work. On the way down, I'll be going to two caches in North Carolina. I certainly won't have a computer or know where to find one on the way down, and won't be able to do any logs for those while I'm at it. So any logs for those bugs will be a day or two late.... As for when I'm in Tennessee, we're talking days without internet acess because I'll be in the boonies. So any bugs I find there may not be logged until I get back to Ohio with them. It's not to say that I won't do it, logging any i may find would be the first thing I'd do when I could, but I wouldn't be able to do it right away. *makes a note that her caching equipment now must include internet access so someone doing nothing but hunting for bugs doesn't have to 'waste' a trip* Just remember guys, there's no guarentee that the cache you're looking for won't ever get moved from the time it's placed to the time you get there, and there's no guarentee that the cache will have a bug, either. It's all part of the sport.

Honestly, I don't like the thought of lowering cost of the TBs... Part of their allure is that finding bugs isn't easy. I like the challenge of hunting for them and maybe finding one. Think about it. A teddy bear isn't special because everyone has had at least three and you can find them anywhere. If you decrease the cost of the bugs, they'll be like Teddy bears - everyone will have them and it won't be a big deal anymore. And don't make them plastic. Please don't make them plastic!

quote:Originally posted by carleenp: quote: You could run the prontout through a photocopier onto a Shrinky-Dink sheet, punch a hole in it, and bake yourself a little permanent tag to put on the chain.BTW, this does work (the photocopying). I made a set of Cheesehead keychains that I leave in caches. It was a snap to make a bunch by creating a design in Photoshop and printing an outline version. After transferring to the plastic, the kids had a ball coloring them in. I think for a TB tag that it would be easier and cheaper to take the printout to a copyshop and pay $1.50 or so for laminating (unless the person has shrinky dink stuff around). With that said, I love your keychain idea! That sounds cool! I might try something like that for a signature item! http://outbreakcorp.hypermart.net/animation/pokemon/pokeanim3.gif Actually, Shrinky Dink stuff is available in WalMart's craft section for 99cents a pack for a multi sheet pack... So it's really easy to find and not expensive.

quote:Originally posted by TX Diva:I don't have any pet peeves, but I have a couple of dogs. Where would one purchase a peeve, and would they be good companions to canines? I imagine a peeve to be somewhat like the texas parie chicken.. Dispite anything you may have heard, the name is misleading and they don't do much good to have them around. I quite imagine the dogs would hate having a peeve in the house.

Walking through water I just swallowed a small bug Find the container!

I have an accidental signature item... When I got stuff for my first day of Caching, I got a thing of stickers... It was six sheets of smiley faces for a dollar... So I got a pack to take with me, and they came in handy, because the first cache I found, nothing else really fit in it very well. Those got left in the first three caches, but not in the one I went to today, because it was way too wet in the cache to leave them. When I find a better item, I will use it instead.

Actually, It annoys me to SAY "cash" because the word looks french which would make it a "Cashay"... So I say "Cashay" all the time. (and no I don't spell it like that.. I'm trying to be phonetical)... People with obvious spelling errors bother me online.. That's my peeve.. Like the people that do a subject line to a post and type something so fast that the letters are in the wrong "oredr" and then don't bother to fix it at all.... It's a post title, take four seconds to make sure you didn't mess something up!!!!!

I want to know where to park... I don't want it as a hint... Especially since where I live, to get to most caches, I have to drive half an hour, so I end up in places that I don't normally go. So for me, I want to know basically how to get to somewhere to start the cache from... The point of caching isn't the drive to get to where you walk from... It's goint to the Cache and saying you've found it.. As for clues... I want them to be good ones.. We were having problems finding stuff today, and the clue wasn't helping me at all. So it's like... What the heck... Cause it's pointless to have a clue that doesn't help... BUT, I do think that it's a case by case basis... I know someone who has a cache that the coordinants it's listed under is where to park your car, then you have a list of 19 sets of coordinants, and only one is right... The clue tells you which one to look at, so if you read the clue, you don't have the "thrill" of 18 wrong sets of coordinants..

You know what, though... I think that the rating should be explained in the description... Not to give it away, but something like... I've rated it a 2 because you have to go through stinkweed to get to it... Or, this is a 2 because there is 2.34 miles of walking and 7 sets of coordinants... Not to give it away, but enough to let us know what we're getting ourselves into... Besides, sometimes you don't have a choice... I have just completed my 4th cache... There are only 2 more within 20 miles of my house. So, I don't really have an option as to which one I chose to do, because I can't really travel far. And then what do you do for the ones that are marked wrong? According to what Cheval posted, the one I found today should have said 3 for both terrain and difficulty. I walked at least three miles, up and down hill and through narrow buggy wet trails... I had SEVEN sets of coordinants to find to get to the cache... And as for time, it took me more than TWO hours to get from my van back to my van. The person that made the cache - and, mind you, I talked to him for 30 min yesterday and he never said anything about it's difficulty - marked this as 2 for both categories. I wouldn't have gone out for it if I knew what all was involved, but it didn't say anything about it in the description.

I guess you have to ask yourself what the point of GeoCaching is for you. For me, I did it because I needed an excuse to go out and take a walk. In that instance, I wanted to go after the ones that are labeled 1/1 because I know it is an easy walk. For instance, my first Cache was .9 miles down a paved walking path. I really wasn't that excited about what was in the box (Although I did get a wheres george dollar in it), I just wanted the thrill of the hunt. If you want a better treasure hunt to pick from, I would say read the descriptions and see what the people say about what they left and what they took.

My best reason to GeoCache is that it gives me reason to get off my butt and go do something! Like, I hate walking because walking in a circle seems pointless, but when you Cache, you have a reason to get up off your butt and move around!

quote:Originally posted by Shilfiell:Book themes are cool! I like books! But they can be made one better if you regsiter and label all the books at bookcrossing.com, and then it's like your cache is full of quasi-travel bugs. I'll always pick up a bookcrossing book if I see one. -shilfiell "I'm too old to be doing this" - me to nobody, from too high up in a pine tree. Hey, it's good to know that some people will take those! I went hunting Sunday and left books in two of the boxes, hoping it would get more traffic to the book crossing site! I do like y'all's ideas of a bookcrossing cache, though.. I am planning on making a couple different ones, and I haven't been sure about what to put in them... I like that Idea! A friend of mine went to an all CD cache... Didn't matter what kind of CD - software, music, dvd, etc - but it had to be store bought (not burned at home). It was kinda cool, cause he was talking about it and we found the CD that he had gotten from the box in a different cache from where he left it while we were out. You could do one candles or something like that.. That's certainly cheap enough, especially if you find a dollar store with a clearance sale! How about doing some sort of television theme? Anime is huge right now, I'm sure you could do something like that. Besides, if you make sure to post the theme when you register the cache, then people will make sure they have something for it. Although, here's a good idea... I went to a canine cache on Sunday, and the woman that made it put 1/2 themed and 1/2 not themed stuff in the box so if someone didn't have a themed piece they could trade for something not themed.

I like P's suggestion... I don't want to go out there and do a gazillion miles for something most of the time - although, there's one through the florida keys that's a tour of Jimmy Buffett related sites, so that's different... I must say this, though... It could be worse.. I have a friend who has one with 19 different sets of coordinants... 1 is correct. 18 are totally fake.

Yeah, I would say this sport is addicting... I have a blister and every part of my body hurts after three Caches yesterday, and I am going to go back to one of them today because I wanted to take a picture of the box and I forgot to! (Can you see a mile and a half walk done on a BLISTER??? I'm insane!!!

Hey, guys. I wanted to share my first hunt story with y'all since I told my friends and they weren't interested and my mom just thinks I'm wierd. (I had to explain Caching to her four times) Anyway, so I feet like I was going to die last night when I got home. I went to the Western Reserve Greenland walkway, this walking path that they just made out of the hump that rail road tracks used to be on. (You can look this up with area code 44004) Anyway, I went with this guy, Tim, who lives around me, and his girlfriend (i can't remember her name!) and the first Cache I went to was called Cache 22... It was really cool. So we had to walk .86 miles to get to it, then just over 60 paces through the woods - nothing big - and I found a little box and opened it and there were some little things in there - nothing great... I found a WheresGeorge.com dollar, that I already logged in on Where's George. And I left a sheet of stickers and this little eggbert guy that I got off of a push pop at easter, because nothing else really fit... Then we went to another Cache about 2 1/2 miles down the road (no we didn't walk all that... we parked somewhere else and walked another .7 or so to get to it) and there were some cool things in that.. I got a "wipe your paws" towel, I know it was kinda dorky, but it was cross stitched, so I took it because of that. I left a book in it's place (Frankenstein) and a sheet of stickers, because I left stickers every place I went. Then we got back in the car and went to the Homeland Cache in North Kingsville.. It's in the woods at this little park. So we went .2 of a mile in the woods through hordes of these little itty bitty bugs and that was nasty. But then we finally found the Cache in the midst of vines and stuff. I took a Hello Kitty clip on thing... And then I left another book and a Where's George dollar and a sheet of stickers, because I figured someone should get something good for tackling all those bugs to get to it. MY FEET HURT SO BAD I THINK I'M GOING TO GO DIE. And me, who never gets blisters has one! Anyway, So that was my day.. I know it sounds kinda wierd, but I want to go out and find more.. This is more addicting than a can of pringles! LOL.. I mean, I know that sounds wierd, but it's a great way to get exercize, because I went to 3 places and walked about four miles, so that was cool.. I hate walking because there doesn't seem to be a purpose to it. But that was really cool to get to go and do that and then you don't think of how much you walk because you have a goal and it's not walking, so that's really cool. Plus, Tim said that I could borrow his GPS whenever I wanted to, so that was really cool, so I think that I am going to do that when I go down to the family reunion and I will do a couple on the way. So yeah, I had fun... But I'm exhausted and everything hurts, cause I'm horribly out of shape, so I'm going to go soak in the tub for an hour. But yeah, that was my day. AND, I got home in time for the last 20 laps of the NASCAR race that I missed when I was out Caching.

I do have to say this, though. For me, as an example, I go to the same area in Tennessee a few times a year. It is a sleepy little area, and I assure you that if a cache was put there, noone would disturb it, so it would be there. I would be able to check it multiple times a year, and I have over 30 relatives in the area that would be able to look in on it if I asked them to... In that instance, what would GeoCache do?