JohnMac56

Thanks for the advice Jim, I just started using rechargeables and didn't even remember that there was a battery setting in my 60CSx. Funny thing is that once I changed it from alkaline to NiMH my remaining battery charge indicator jumped from about 3/4 to full!!!

Thanks for the update Maldar. I can't wait to see these coins in person. And the teaser looks very, very interesting....

I had to rescue one of my own TB's from one of those prisons after it sat there for 3 months with only discoveries made for it.

Just placed my pre-sale order for a couple of these beautiful coins... Now for the long wait until they ship....

Sunglasses at night by Corey Hart

I think I will end up having one of the most boring stories as to how my geocaching name came about, you can be the judge of that. A looong time ago we got our first computer with a modem (14.4k!!!), and promptly signed up for AOL. I wanted to just combine my first name (John) and a portion of my last name. Turns out that AOL already had someone signed on as JohnMac and apparently they had 55 other JohnMac's already in their database. So, AOL assigned me the name of JohnMac56. I have kept using the same screenname ever since. Kinda boring but that's all there is too it.

1. Antique Gold 2. Antique Silver 3. Antique Copper Kinda resembles my ex-wife in the morning....

I really like the look of this coin, especially with the brass finish! Put me down for at least two of each finish, can't wait for them to come out!!!

We started out with a Garmin Nuvi 200W, and have since upgraded to a pair of GPSMap60csx handhelds. The Nuvi worked great for most caches, it was accurate to about 20 feet most times but the handhelds seem to be more accurate and more rugged. Check out this link for how to load caches onto and use your Nuvi for caching. It helps if you have a premium membership with Geocaching.com so you can use pocket queries to load the caches into the Nuvi. Heres the link... Click Here If the link doesn't work copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://pilotsnipes.googlepages.com/index.html

Beautiful coin, just placed my order for a set of each finish... Can't wait to see them in my hot little hands!!!

Woo Hoo!!! Here's what I had waiting for me when I got home from work today... I received my Celtic Hourglass pendant from Lorca along with a signature wooden shoe and a thank you card!! Many thanks Lorca! I also got my Alien Compass Rose coins!!! Two silver and two gold!!! The picture doesn't do them justice, you've got to see them sparkling in the sunlight!!! Can't wait to see what Monday's mail brings...

Currently there are a total of 25 geocaches on the island proper. 16 Regular caches (including one down for maintenance) 5 Virtual caches 4 Earth caches

Thanks for creating such beautiful coins!!! Just ordered two sets of them. I would love to get my hands on the AE edition, it looks fantastic! How soon do you expect them to be shipping??

I would like to thank everyone for all the votes on my Bryce Canyon photo. It's kinda funny that that particular photo got so many votes as I have had that picture as the background photo on my computer for a couple of years now and I don't ever really see it there. If it wasn't for my girlfriend (Johnslady56) insisting that I submit it I probably wouldn't have done so. Thanks again for all the votes, and a special thanks to Lorca for the cointest and always thanks to Johnslady56 without whom I wouldn't have posted that one. -John

Took this shot a couple of years ago at Bryce Canyon National Park. It was a VERY cold (-15 degrees) December morning. I got to sunset point in the park about 5:30am and waited until the sun came up to get this and many other beautiful shots and then headed back for some hot coffee to warm myself up. It was a most magical morning, there were no people around, no sounds and the ice crystals in the air looked like fairy dust blowing around in the pre dawn light...

This is my favorite shot of my abyssinian cat Max..

No Need To Read Holding up your favorite comic strip clipped from the newspaper

The $36.00 is for a 3 month subscription therefore that would be three new coins including shipping and handling for $36.00, so $12.00 per coin shipped. Not a bad deal....

A nearby cacher published this puzzle cache with a lot of good info for finding other puzzle caches. I have used this as a resource and have gottern a lot of good info from it.. Geocaching Puzzles 101 for Dummies

On one of my latest cache hides, I put a 'Pay-It-Forward' FTF Geocoin as the FTF prize. The principal is simple, whoever is the FTF gets the coin. Now that they have the coin their mission is to place a new cache and include the coin as the FTF prize and this just goes on and on with the coin used as 'seed' for new caches. I have also used the gift card idea, and occasionally I will put a $5.00 bill in as an FTF prize. I really like the idea of the scratch off lottery tickets. Who knows maybe finding the cache will get some other cacher some real cash...

One of the best decoy-type caches I have ever seen was in the California desert. The only thing the cache description said was you were looking for a 35mm film canister. When you arrived at GZ, there is a tree there with over 30 of the 35mm film canisters attached to it. Only one of them was the actual cache with the log inside. Most of the rest were either empty or had a little rock or some sand in it to give it some heft (to make you think you found the right one). We had a good laugh when we pulled up and saw this tree with all those attached to it like some crazy new fruit, then had a fun time searching out the right one...

My scariest moment came when I was hunting for a cache in a desert wash in AZ. I had stopped the truck right above GZ and had scrambled down over the many rocks and began searching. The hint had said that the cache was under a pile of rocks with a pinkish rock on top. Almost half the rocks around were pinkish colored. I began using my trusty stick to move any pinkish colored rocks that appeared to be on the top of other rocks. After about 10 minutes of this method, I moved one rather large pinkish rock and uncovered a 4 foot long western diamondback all coiled up and rattling!! I jumped back a few feet and fell on my keister. After I caught my breath and my heartbeat slowed back to almost normal I then decided I had to take a picture of this snake. I scrambled back to the truck to get my camera but by the time I got back down where I saw the snake it was no longer there. Not knowing where the snake had moved to I got outta there in a hurry and logged it as a DNF...

Yesterday me and Johnslady56 were out grabbing a couple of caches after lunch. We decided to go for one in a small park in a residential neighborhood that has some short trails leading off into the brush. We had just found the cache and opened it. Sitting right on top of everything in the container was a lifelike rubber snake. I had the snake in my hand as she was filling in the log when a man and his dog came down the trail. We didn't have time to hide the container before he would see it so we just looked at him and smiled. He looked at us (as his dog started barking) and asked, "Did you just find that?". I, thinking he was a fellow geocacher and that he meant the cache replied, "Yes we did". He then asked, "Is that a gopher snake?". I started laughing and told him that it was a fake snake, and he went on his way apparently unfazed by the open cache container on the ground.