do not resuscitate

While rummaging through an old shoebox of items that belonged to my late grandfather, I found a staff I.D. badge from an insane asylum from the 1950's. I thought it was weird that it was with my grandfather's stuff. A couple of years ago I dropped it in a cache so others could see it. Wonder whatever happened to it?

Can you say "pipe bomb"! A totem pole in Temescal Valley. Jawbone Canyon store on highway 14 in the Mojave Desert. This jail cell cache was hanging in a tree. Even tho it is easy to see here, it took me over 30 mintues to find it. http://img.geocaching.com/track/log/f49b67...0645ca701f1.jpg

A miner at Stateline on the way to Las Vegas. His ore carts. This was a fun cache. These cats are right next to a busy intersection. The theme of the cache is "what would you do to get the smiley?" As you reach for the cache the passersby see you sticking your hand up the cat's you-know-what!

Would you climb this to reach a cache? He is actually standing on top of a chain-link fence. This water tank in Turnbull Canyon was my 1,000th find. View from water tank overlooking Rose Hills Cemetery. Solvang, California.

The California Aqueduct, where we get our water. Seeing light at the end of the tunnel. The mouth of an old tunnel. Meow...

The Queen Mary at Long Beach, California. This cache was called Micro In The Desert. It was a "micro"wave oven, camoed. Another unfortunate creature who's bones were bleached by the desert sun. The entrance to Burro Schmidt mine. You enter here and 700 feet later you emerge on the other side of the peak and then it's another 100 feet to the cache.

The middle of nowhere. Found these bones in the desert. Possibly human? A steam pump relic. This "device" was a few feet from the cache. Gotta love urban caching...

World famous donut house. The best donuts ever. They're so busy they have two drive-thru's. Don't get stranded in the desert... Let me reiterate... This is the actual church from the Kill Bill movie.

This is the house (a virtual in Los Angeles) that was the mortuary on the tv show Six Feet Under. Soup anyone? Cool cache container! An impromtu grave marker in the Mojave Desert. A turn-of-the-century hearse at a graveyard on the Cajon Pass.

An extinct sloth at The La Brea Tar Pits A family of mammoths mired in the tar. An enraged mammoth. A saber-toothed battle.

I highjack a TB and take it with me and log it in to every cache I find (for mileage) and take at least one photo for each cache (for fun). After a while I drop it into a TB Hotel and pick up another one to do the same with. A lot of the pics are spoilers so I only post it on the TB page. I've found over 1,000 caches. My photo gallery is jam-packed. Caching and camping in the Mojave Desert. Our campsite was 30 from a cache. A Jumping Cholla. The needles have barbed hooks. Makes you keep your eyes open. A Joshua Tree. Bumped into one and the needle barely pricked the back of my hand and my hand swelled to twice its size and I couldn't move my fingers. Man, I love the desert.

My boy! GeoBuddy always goes with me. With urban caching whenever security rolls up on me they see the dog and figure I'm there to "water" the dog. Sometimes I think he is going to "water" the cache before I can find it. He "waters" everything.

When I unzip a pq using easyGPS and load it onto my Garmin Oregon it has all the information exept the previous logs. What am I doing wrong?

Where can I go to print out official logs?

Do you do many puzzle caches? I do those four things for most of the caches I find. However, there are some caches where a photograph would immediately give away the answer to the puzzle. For those I keep the photos to myself. Carolyn I don't post the photo on the cache page. The photo's always include a TB and I post it on the TB's page to avoid it being a spoiler.

Whenever I open my email, I am anxious to see if someone found one of my caches. This for me is the ultimate geothrill, that someone enjoyed hunting/finding my hide. So when the log entry is "TFTC!" My balloon deflates quickly. I mean to each his own, but still.... Personally, for every cache I find I do these four things: take a photo, write something unique, describe the condition of the cache and log, and thank the owner. For every cache I find.

Here Here!!! You know, Bruce, every time you find one of my caches you always have something interesting to say, and the time I've spent with you talking about geocaching leads me to believe that the thrill is not gone. I do hope you stray away from this negative thinking.

When I see a TB I like I "adopt" it, and with the owners permission, I take it with me and dip it into every cache that I find. I also take at least one photo of the TB at each cache and post it on the TB's page, thus proving I was actually at that location to avoid someone saying I am cheating to chalk up the miles. Geocaching takes us to great places and photos are a way of recording our travels. Go to my profile and look at my gallery, you will see hundreds and hundreds of TB photos, like the ones below. Dune Buggy TB and a genuine joshua tree Dune Buggy TB and the California aqueduct Zeke The Zeger TB at Big Bear Lake, California

This was well-hidden for Halloween, and I was surprised that the lights and sounds still worked. GTO in the hand of Don Laughlin, in Laughlin, Nv.

A giant fish head that someone had dumped near the cache in Wildomar, Ca. GTO on the well-camo'd cache, Mile Square Park, Fountain Valley, Ca. This cache was hanging out of sight from fishing line and dropped into a storm channel. A bit of a shock to pull the line and find this. This cache was located near a pizza place, Murrieta, Ca.

This was about ten feet from the cache, near Silverwood Lake, Ca. The cache was under one of those rocks. View from gz of a nice valley. Reminded me of the Ponderosa. Silverwood lake, view from gz.

A cool relief map of the Antelope Valley and places within it. It was located at a vista point where a virtual cache was. Not a TB, but the condition of my head after a day caching on my bicycle when I forgot to wear a hat. Ouch! Not a TB, but homemade cookies that a cacher made and brought to an event in Corona Del Mar.

An old cemetery near Lake Isabella, Kern County, Ca. A Joshua tree off of hwy 178 in Kern County, Ca. Historic marker at junction of hwy 178 and the famous Pacific Crest Trail. Cache is in the bare-looking tree at about one-o'clock. I thought I was going to have a cardiac climbing to it. California aqueduct with the Antelope Valley in the background.

These sculptures are at a pocket park in Whittier, Ca. commemorating the Women Of Whittier.

This was called Cache Jail and located in a bush on a lonely hiking trail in the Puente Hills, Ca. I took me a long time to spot it even though it was right in front of me. John Greenleaf Whittier was a turn-of-the-century poet, philosopher and quaker. And the founder of the city of Whittier. This is part of a mural showing scenes of early Whittier.