Geo-Joe-N-Josh

Extreme caching! that could work. plenty of people are watching those survival shows. Why wouldn't they watch some guy climb Mt. Everest for a cache, or dive down in the Carrebbean.

That sound like a great idea to get people to help one another! ... and that's an "Agenda." If that cache were submitted to me today, I would send the owner to Groundspeak to obtain special permission. Ditto for the commercial cache location examples higher up in the thread, like the IKEA store. I agree. People need to help eachother.

sounds like a cache at the Field Musiem in Chicago. I did not find it but the coordinates took you to an area with balconies and such.

You have hit it on the head! There exists a handful of otherwise-fine-and-lovable-and-fun geocachers on this forum who love to argue, to nit-pick, to engage in lengthy and repetitious and never-ending (and insane...) arguments over how many angels will fit on the head of a pin, and over the flaws in the arguments posted by the previous poster. Far better that the one thread that you have referenced act as a fly-trap, rather than having them (and the guy with the weird and irritating icon who hasta/musta send a troll post to every thread) infest the rest of the forum threads! Inquiring minds want to know? Who has the irritating icon? In the other thread, that's like saying, the user with the keyboard. Vinny is talking about me. He has sent me numerous e-mails asking me to change my "weird and irritating" avatar. He said it makes him physically ill when he sees it. Hmm... I thought my avatar was the most irritating. I like Brainsnat's icon.

You should feel good for the site (and the people making miney)

then what's the point. It doesn't matter because as of now it is a hot topic! Is it a coincodence or did you steal my name!!! I couldn't have. I started before you. oh.....

then what's the point. It doesn't matter because as of now it is a hot topic! Is it a coincodence or did you steal my name!!!

I love caching!

I correct myself. I have bought a six dollar pack of batteries for my GPS.

How about replacing "are turning" with "have turned" since Geocaching.com has been in business for the better part of a decade. Geocaching has not turned into a business. It is still a game. There is just a line of geocaching products. The two are completly seperate.

I have had fun caching for a few monthes and once I got my GPS I haven't paid one red cent Not one!

Arrrggghhhh. I feel like a low life, law breaking, sign reading, scoundrel now,,,, Just curious, what's the punishment and/or the fine for not obeying that sign? 10,000 years of no Geocaching.

[/Quote= In 1600 posts, I haven't seen one flame or personal attack. I think it's actually a positive thing.] Bring it on HA!! !!!look!!! There's been a flame on your thread!

sbell111 is right and he's been around long enough to know. Hitchhikers started when some people would attach a note to a trade item asking people who traded for it to leave it in another cache. They either asked that people email them when they moved their hitchhiker or they set up their own website to track them. Groundspeak, who was looking for way to turn geocaching into a business, saw the popularity of hitchhikers and decided to sell travel bug tags that could be attached to items and be tracked on Geocaching.com. Later they added the ability to track coins. Never have they said you couldn't continue to have your own hitchhiker and track it on your own website. Of course, Groundspeak was able to integrate the tracking of their travel bugs with the online logging of geocaches so that makes them more likely to be tracked and thus more popular. The idea that travel bug tracking should be free is one more example of people who confuse geocaching with the online services provided by Geocaching.com. ability to list caches - free (or $3 to list caches as premium members only) ability to log caches online - free ability to search online for caches - free ability to download coordinates of caches - free (or $3 to get coordinates for PMOC) ability to download additional cache information - $3/month ability to list a trackable item - varies around $4.25 per item ability to log a trackable item listed on Geocaching.com - free what turned Geocaching into a business?!? Jeremy's desire to feed his family. O.K. good point

Groundspeak, who was looking for way to turn geocaching into a business, saw the popularity of hitchhikers and decided to sell travel bug tags that could be attached to items and be tracked on Geocaching.com. what turned Geocaching into a business?!? It's supposed to be a game!

Also, how much are dog tags for it?

How much are those?!?

Am I allowed to make my own travelbug? For example, If I have a really cool rock or carving with numbers carved into the side, can I activate it and send it out? What else would I have to do?

I found one like that in a cache, and turned it into a travel bug: "Is there a problem, Officer?" how do you convert something into a travel bug?

I would think people would have the respect to stay on the trail on private property.

Do you need a really good GPS to track on a plane?

Once I went caching in -2. Fourtionately it was for an FTF and was less than a block away.

That sound like a great idea to get people to help one another!

What GPS do you use and which one do you wish you had?!?

Feh. I have put a million dollars for FTF in a couple of caches... One of these days I'm going to order a bunch more and get a stamp so that I can use them as signature swag. I had a bunch of these bills from an event a long time ago. We gave one to all attendees. Each bill was wrapped with a ribbon which read "Thanks a Million". I've dropped a bunch into caches that logged them with something like "Took hot wheels car, Left a million dollars". The question is...which is closer to true? A million dollars, ten bucks, or 500 dollars?