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We had a similar scare with the camel travel bug, in which cachers add a camel of their choice to the bag before moving the bug along. Came downstairs one morning to find the dogs had eaten the plastic bag and camels were strewn everywhere. For whatever reason, it was the bag they wanted, so no camel was harmed in the taking of that travelbug, but it was close call and I always make sure any waiting bugs are put up HIGH on the shelf before going to bed.

quote:Goofus packs his GPS, a shovel, Kwik-Lime and Gallant's dismembered torso. See who wins now? Oh, I shouldn't be laughing as hard as I am...

quote:But as I got closer to home, I noticed people had powers. Psychic powers? Super powers?

Sept1c_tank -- neat story! Every time I'd pass that pic I'd think "what an ugly dog...". Wishes he could go geocaching: ----->

So, I'm thinking Ed thinks you should get permission?

Dreamweaver can produce its own share of bloated code, but I'm too lazy to hand-code and it's far superior to FP. Cracks me up, though, that it has an option for "clean up Word html". geospotter, to answer the question you asked: yes, I am talented enough to produce something like that. edited because proper grammar is a good thing...

Basic desktop publishing printed via the Acrobat Distiller (or some other .pdf maker). Not hard to do, necessarily, for someone with some DTP experience. Nice that they copyright Groundspeak but I think a lot of those images are uncredited... (you know, if I'm picking nits -- it's a nice brochure, for sure!)

Like this: or this:

This is a log posted to my cache yesterday -- looks like he knows all the tricks... "Found it, yes, but I had a hard time. There were many, many families of kids, moms and dads drifting by every few seconds, and I looked like a dirty old man hanging around in the bushes. And this was at about 11:30 on Sunday morning! Tried to look like a birdwatcher, tried faking a cell phone call on my GPSr, snapped a few pics with my GPSr, even impersonated a county inspector checking out the drainage through the area. Finally had a chance to grab the cache and log the find."

And, don't forget, you got to be the star of our little Photoshop Sweepstakes ... what more could a guy want? Seriously, glad you're okay.

TNLN = Took Nothing/Left Nothing TNLNSL = Ditto/Signed Log

Thank y'all all for your responses. I posted a note saying the cache was where it was expected to be. Any thoughts on the spoiler info? Should I encrypt the whole entry, a la "JustBeingJolly", or should I just let it go? I knew they were newbies, as I am, and they were polite, so I wanted to make sure I did the "right/polite" thing.

BWAH!!!!

quote:it seems critical to know the exact place that we are in the world at any given moment, all the time, even when we're a mile from home. I imagine this silliness will wear off eventually Uh-huh. That's what I thought about my husband too. But, four years later, it's still critical to not leave for the grocery store -- which is 1/2 mile away -- without the GPS. He offered it to me once when I was going to my parents' house. "But I know how to get to my parents' house." "But you might need it." I shouldn't make fun, since giving up his GPS is the ultimate sacrifice, but I just truly didn't see the point. Obviously, the solution was to get the adapter that allows it run off the car charge. Paid off quickly in battery savings!!

I had a DNF posted to my cache yesterday. Went out this morning; cache is fine, exactly where it's supposed to be. I don't know the protocol for responding ... email and say it's there, post a note to the cache page, do nothing? Also, they suggested I check the coordinates, but, based on the log entry, they were in pretty much exactly the right spot. The entry, though, says "looked here, looked here, saw this" -- at least one of which I consider spoiler and didn't include on purpose. Do I ask them to reword their log, or just leave it be? Thanks!

Apparantly? I need a life...

nothing to see here. move along...

Since you're designing the card (which looks nice) I think it would be amusing if you added how caching affects it -- put a line in for "geocaching in quiet woods", then maybe one at a higher level around busy street for "urban micros". And, in my case, a little higher level for "wife [me] complaining about the cost of a new GPS..."

quote:Oh, sure! And then hide it in a rock quary!Be sure you put an encrypted hint to "look under a rock" if you do.