do not resuscitate

Looking for a used paperless unit (any brand) for my quadraplegic friend who cannot use a touchscreen. Obviously, easily usable buttons would be a plus.

I happened to look up a cache owner's profile to discover she has been a geocacher for 7 years but has not found any caches and has actually hidden 110. It's been my state of mind that you need to have some caching experience before you start hiding caches. It bugs me when someone is introduced to caching but all they can think about is hiding them. I live in Los Angeles and am a urban cacher and have many times been angered by poorly placed caches with bad coordinates by newbies who don't know what they are doing. However, I have found some of the aforementioned lady's caches and there are no complaints about her hides even tho she has never found any. Makes me rethink my stance on newbies hiding them.

Welcome to this great pasttime. I have found over a thousand caches and have enjoyed every one of them. Doesn't matter if it's a generic LPC or one of those really creative ones that make you go: "Wow"!, all of them are fun to find. Good luck and Happy Caching!

So sad. He died in his brother-in-law's arms. The brother-in-law requested that the co archive this cache.

I take at least one photo at every cache I find. I adopt a TB and dip it in every cache for miles and take a pic. I only post the pics on the page for the TB. After a while and a bunch of miles, I drop it and pick up another. I have taken and posted over a thousand geocaching photos. I have placed over 40 caches and I love it when cachers take photos at my caches. I think we should all post more photo's.

When I first started hiding caches I would leave a $5 Starbucks card and on the cache page I would say that for the first to find, the latte's on me! That soon got old and I ended up just putting a one dollar bill and writing FTF Prize on the bill. I know it's cheap, but I think the FTF'er should get some kind of reward.

It seemed like forever to reach 100, but that first milestone was in an old cemetery in East L.A. I also made it the launching of my first TB (Cemetary Visitor). My 1000th milestone was at a water tower overlooking Rose Hills Cemetery.

I've seen a lot of the usually odd things like used condoms, abandoned toilets, dead animals, sun-bleached animal bones (some that even looked human), but the oddest thing I saw was in an old urban cemetary in Downey, Ca. Ten feet from the cache was a cow's tongue with about a dozen gold safety pins stuck in it. And, the tongue didn't look like it came from the butcher's shop, it looked like it had been ripped from the animal. I posted a pic on the cache page but the cache owner requested that I remove the photo.

The best and most memorable "sighting" was seeing a whale. I was hunting for Pacific End near Marina Del Rey, Ca. There were a lot of people mulling around looking at a certain spot in the water in the marina. I asked someone and they said a whale has been hanging out in the harbor for a week. As I was negotiating the jagged rocks of the jetty, I happened to look up just in time to see the whale surface and exhale thru its blowhole. Awesome.

Night caching looking for a cache by the legendary husband/wife team of DBRambling. Some doors are for exit only and outside the building there is no doorknob (because it is exit only). So DBR hid the cache in a doorknob and velcroed the doorknob to the door. When a cacher walks up, he/she doesn't realize it is an exit only door. An evil hide. Now for my dumb act. I looked and looked to no avail. Frustrated. I ended up taking a porch light completely apart looking inside it. Well, then I couldn't put it back together again! Tried and tried. Must've been there for an hour just trying to reasseble the light fixture. It was right on a main street and I was waiting for the police to show up thinking I was burglerizing the place. Finally got it put back together and called DBR (they happen to be one of my life-lines). Felt like a fool when Bob told me to open the door. D'oh! This photo shows the porch light and the fake doorknob

I myself put an unusual piece of swag in a cache. It was an employee I.D. tag from an insane asylum from the 1940's. I found it among my late grandfather's belongings and thought others might get a kick out of it. That was about three years ago, and I often wonder where it is now...

How about song titles and/or lyrics. Some people will automatically relate to it. I own one called "We Who Are Not As Others". It's the title of a song from the Brazilian thrash-metal band Sepultura. We, as cachers, are a unique tribe. We who are not as others.

I own several caches and when a log becomes full I remove it and keep it as a momento, therefore, I never remove a log from someone else's cache no matter how bad of shape it is in. I add a new log in a waterproof baggie and notify the owner.

My brother-in-law and his family (O-Side Grubs) took me with them. It was in a park in the crotch of a tree where you have to reach up and explore with your hand instead of your eyes. It was a hide-a-key screwed onto a piece of tree bark. Ingenious. Hooked from that point on.

When I signed up I was excited about the name I was gonna use, but drats, it was already taken (Blunt Force Trauma). I go to a lot of GeoEvents and I always get asked why I chose Do Not Resuscitate. I had to pull the plug on my father after several days of no brain activity. It was quite sad. I do not wish to be put on life support under any circumstances. Just let me go...

This one was called "Micro In The Desert", it was an actual microwave!

I found one in the Palmdale/Lancaster area of the Mojave desert and it was hidden in a sparse bush. It was hanging and easy to spot but there were at least 20 decoys in the same bush. Of course, I found the real cache after having looked in all of the decoys first. It was fun but irritating at the same time. Hope I don't come across a similar hide.

The above logs are all from a cache called "Larger Than Life" in which you are encouraged to tell a "tall tale" of your adventure. It's cool to see the creativity. Here is my log entry: May 1 by do not resuscitate (1269 found) A nice quiet place for a cache. At least that's what I thought. So, as I'm climbing this huge billboard sign a cop pulls up and demands that I come back down and wants my can of spray paint. I tell him that I don't have any paint and that I'm geocaching. He said that's bullspit and that I need to hand over the spray paint or else. So I hand him the actual cache container and he freaks out yelling "A Bomb, A Bomb!". He drops the cache and hides behind the car while calling the bomb squad. I wanted to just get in my car and leave, but decided to wait it out and see what kind of drama would ensue. The bomb squad gets there and picks up the cache and tells the cop that it's just a geocache and he's a geocacher himself. The cop tells me I can go so I signed the log and replaced the cache and got back in my car and pulled the can of spray paint out of my sock and left. What fun. DevilHead & MommaBear D.N.R.

March 24, 2008 by Puppet Man (1076 found) As I was flying around on my new dragon with Sandra Bullock, something caught my eye that didn't seem right.So I swiched gears and turned my Dragon into a submarine (a brand new feature on the 3000 models)and down we went.As we landed I found out that this new model also comes with a unicyle feature. So here I was with Sandra on my back riding my unicycle.Suddenly out of nowhere a cyclops appears and wants to battle me.That's when Sandra kicked it into gear and went totally ninja on his one eye.Well that was easy.Now onto why we landed. Upon closer inspection we find what looks like something from the 31st century.After finding out how to open it, to my surprise was the Captain's log stardate 13 of which we signed and replaced.Aw just another day in looneyville.Oh BTW I left a dragon egg there.So I hope someone takes good care of it for me!!

June 27, 2008 by Belle12 (117 found) I found this cache when I was walking my four bunnies. One was named Clark, the next one was named Snowflake, and the next one was named Fluffy, and the last one was named Princess. And I had one more that was holding my GPSr. And that bunny's name was Molly. She wanted to act like a real person, that's why she was holding my GPSr. She invited her other friend, Angel, to come with her. Also, I know her too. My bunnies helped me make a beanstalk as tall as a building so I could see if I could find the cache. One of the bunnies went on a smaller plant and looked for it closer. They all had one power so they could look for the cache. And the bunny that was looking for the cache closer, she had the power to find the cache easier. She had really good vision. And Angel had the power to fly. And Fluffy had to power to blow herself into a balloon, Clark had the power to change colors of things, Snowflake had the power to turn herself into a snowflake, and Princess had the power to look like a princess. TFTC

August 15, 2008 by Ungust (330 found) I was on a quest across the vast open tundra of the Southbay. I chanced upon a mermaid who had been cast from the seas. It was Ship2Shore. Thus did we begin our travels and adventures together. We sought this Quest in order to add to our geocoffers. And thusly, raise our numbers. We did brave the wild and fierce creatures that inhabit the Freeway of the 110. We did cross the moat that surrounds the giant grainery storehouse and with great stealth and cunning, approached the Keep that contained the treasure that we did seek to obtain. With Ship2Shore acting as lookout and decoy, I approached the Great Keep and gained entry to the treasury. We took that which we strived for and replaced the treasure with a small magic writing tablet and an enchanted guardian to watch over the secreted chest of riches. We replaced the chest as we had found it, and crept from the Keep. With the guards and local villagers none the wiser of our presence. Thus, did we leave as we had come. In great stealth and confidence that we had enriched ourselves and added to the enjoyment of others.

August 15, 2008 by Ship2Shore (170 found) After being carried in on a tsunami and dropped on the giant paved path referred to as number 110. I met a barbarian named Ungust who told me of a beautiful treasure nearby. I agreed to travel with him in return for escort back to the sea. He gained entry without difficulty as I stood watch. He bribed the mummy guard with a magical slate, and we were off with some of the treasure!

March 15, 2009 by hoolegan (1140 found) Slickvrob, sscruiser and myself borrowed a helicopter and landed on top of GZ to get this cache. I "basejumped" 20' to the ground and signed the log, then used a sling shot to sling it back up to the others to sign. Once signed it was put back in place then things got interesting. I found a tall building to basejump back into the chopper which was magically still hovering. I swooped right in to the passenger seat avoiding the rotor blades and everything!!! *whew* TFTC! (and the fun)

June 7 by NoaLana (19 found) In the middle of the day after sliding down the skittles rainbow with Thing 1 and Thing 2 in tow we came upon a bridge, but before we could cross an evil Ogre (not Shrek) appeared and demanded we answer a few riddles, the first were easy but the last stumped us, maybe you can help (because Alice couldnt) - Why is a raven like a writing desk ?, While I distracted the Ogre, Thing 1 cart wheeled and Thing 2 backflipped all the way to and up the billboard, grabbed the cache, signed and replaced it and we then scurried passed the Ogre and climbed up a beanstalk, leaped to the nearest cloud and drifted away ...........onto our next adventure.

June 10 by Orca! (955 found) The night was sultry. But there was no time to enjoy it. Orders had come down from battalion headquarters; the mission, as nonsensical as this god-forsaken war. I had hand-picked my combat team. Kids who by all rights should be home going out on a date with Mary Jane from down the street or cruising the strip. Instead, they're here. To do THIS. Unbelievable. The chopper picked us up at Assembly Area Crazy Horse just outside of Forward Operating Base Bunny Ranch. (Those crazy intel guys!) It was only a 40 minute flight to just north of Phase Line Cheetah. It was a textbook insertion with a clean dispersion. SGT Ponce took point. She seemed to have mastered movement by NVG soon after getting in-country. We were locked and loaded, our senses dialed up. I wasn't sure what to expect. The enemy was all around us, blending into the indigenous population. I kept my M-4 trained on a group of young men about a click away, but these new multi-cam uniforms must've been doing their job. They never saw us. SGT Ponce signaled to me that we had arrived at our objective. I had the team cover me as I climbed up onto the raised platform. It didn't take long to locate the drop point. I accessed the secured container and left the encoded message for the Delta Force A-Teams to retrieve later. I hope it never gets to the point where we need to use it. We quickly headed back to the rally point and soon linked up with a British Special Air Service team for the extrication. Just another night in this hell-hole.