TheAlabamaRambler

Article #300 published! Three hundred geocaching stories written by geocachers and published free and ad-free in The Online Geocacher solely for the enjoyment of other geocachers. As the Owner and Publisher of The Online Geocacher I continue to enjoy your stories, but know that there are many great stories which are not being shared. Share them! Your fellow geocachers want to read them! Thanks to the great cachers who have shared these first three hundred and I look forward to reading many more. Ed, Publisher, The Online Geocacher http://onlinegeocacher.com/ TheOnlineGeocacher@gmail.com

Article #300 published! Three hundred geocaching stories written by geocachers and published free and ad-free in The Online Geocacher solely for the enjoyment of other geocachers. As the Owner and Publisher of The Online Geocacher I continue to enjoy your stories, but know that there are many great stories which are not being shared. Share them! Your fellow geocachers want to read them! Thanks to the great cachers who have shared these first three hundred and I look forward to reading many more. Ed, Publisher, The Online Geocacher http://onlinegeocacher.com/ TheOnlineGeocacher@gmail.com

Must be one heck of a book! Barnes and Noble lists it for $650. There was an art exhibit showing pictures from the book and a geocaching event for it GCYA70

Another type of search on Amazon finds 212 books with the word 'geocaching'. They may not be about geocaching but they at least mention it. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_pg_10?rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Ageocaching&page=10&keywords=geocaching&ie=UTF8&qid=1361514995 I had no idea. Looks like I have reading material for quite a while!

Thanks for the link! Would a Moderator combine this thread with that one?

Someone got that one for us this past Christmas. I haven't read it yet. It seemed a bit dated. I think it tells some interesting stories - at least the introduction does!

The first book I read on geocaching is still one I highly recommend... The Joy of Geocaching: How to Find Health, Happiness and Creative Energy Through a Worldwide Treasure Hunt by Paul Gillin and Dana Gillin

I am sure I've seen a thread on books about geocaching, but I couldn't find it with the search engine, so here goes... Have you read any books on geocaching? Let us know about them! A search on Amazon for the word 'geocaching' finds 59 books. Amazon has First to Find on sale, a good debut mystery from Morgan C. Talbot. http://www.amazon.com/First-Find-Caching-Series-ebook/dp/B009V4LABY/ref=pd_sim_kstore_5 I am currently reading Cached Out by Russell Atkinson, author of several books based on geocaching. http://www.amazon.com/Cached-Cliff-Knowles-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B009FPRYAK Amazon, like most all booksellers, uses paid book reviewers so their reviews are suspect. I would like to know what geocachers think about books on geocaching! What have you read about our game? Was it worth the time and money?

I have a fishing buddy who doesn't care for the game. His idea of a running gag is to ask me "Caught any of them geos lately?"

Now that right there is funny!

Excellent attitude!

What she said.

Can you share your experience? I guess we feel like if maybe we're not alone it will be easier to deal with? That sounds a bit selfish because we don't want anyone else to experience having their caches stolen by another cacher(s) but it would be 'comforting' in a weird way to know that there are others out there who can relate to what it feels like to know that your caches are being stolen by other geocachers. Sounds like someone has taken a dislike to you and is taking it out on your caches. It happens, some humans just suck. Hopefully they will get tired of it. I have a similar problem with a cache that someone has taken issue with. They've stolen it at least a dozen times. It is the oldest cache in Alabama and we want to keep it active, so we keep replacing it. We've even chained it down... they brought bolt cutters. There's really nothing you can do about this, it's much like having a bully after you - you can't control what he will do, only how you respond to it. Good luck!

I conduct Geocaching 101 style classes and presentations on a fairly frequent basis. Schools, Libraries, Events, Scout troops, Civic events, in magazines and on TV, etc. I think it is a great family game and enjoy introducing it to kids. I go to the site early and hide two or three temporary caches with kid-friendly swag in them. I give an approximately 15 minute presentation starting with what the GPS system is, how it works, show and explain a couple GPS receivers, then explain the game. I practice the KISS concept, giving them just enough info to understand GPS and geocaching but not enough to bore them. I let them pick from a bunch of swag on a table for the participants to use as trade items, then I take them out to find the temp caches I hid around the venue. To my knowledge there has never been a problem with kids coming back to muggle the permanent caches in the area.

The Alabama Geocachers Association (AGA) started ten years or so ago on the domain AlaCache.com. After a couple years the owner of that domain took the site down and disappeared from the game but retained ownership of the domain so that it could not be used. Bah Humbug. Anyhoo, after 7 years he evidently got tired of paying for the domain just to block it, my backorder snagged it for me, and I now own AlaCache.com. It is forwarded, and will remain so, to another of my domains, DixieCachers.com, which has hosted the forum for the AGA since AlaCache went away. The reason this is of larger interest than local is that I and a number of others had personal and AGA geocoins, sig items and swag items imprinted with AlaCache.com, and many of these things are still in circulation all over the world. If you hold an item with AlaCache.com on it you have not been able to go to that site. You can now, and we would like to know where this old AlaCache stuff ended up! If you have or encounter items with AlaCache.com on them drop us a note at that domain, it will forward automagicly to DixieCachers.com, but that's us.

Greetings Brothers! F&AM Centerpoint Lodge 872, Centerpoint, AL York Rite Knight Templar Shrine Eastern Star

This is a duplicate of a thread by the same name in the Off Topic forum. My friends in OT suggested that I post it here for a wider audience. I and a caching buddy were interviewed in early December for a geocaching show to be shown on a local special-interest TV segment. It aired this morning. There are two segments, "Geocaching" and "Searching For Treasure". If I can figure out how to capture and combine the two video segments and edit out the commercials I will post it on several sites. Having been a computer user for three decades video editing isn't something I have ever needed to do, so rather than me trying to learn to do it if one of y'all knows how and wants to then I encourage your effort! http://www2.alabamas...5997-vi-156285/ Just thought y'all would get a laugh out of TAR on TV.

"The language of location", "It's the location that matters", the fun of discovering new places, etc. Maybe not so much. As we learned with virts, if it doesn't have a container with a log it's not geocaching.

Yeah, still have to talk it out with the next person to bring it up. bd "Someone took my spot!" "I hate lame caches!" "People should do things my way!" No need for a new thread, just Google it. I promise that after 10 years and millions of cachers and caches you don't have any new complaints to say about this game. And this is the wrong thread to say it in. I visit a forum for the Book House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. An amazing book by the way. The forum posters make it very clear that you should never ask a question that has been posted before. I don't have a problem with that. Who are you to say the same here in this forum? I miss your point, but the beauty of this forum for me is that I am just another Off Topican. So long as I stay within the forum guidelines I don't have to be anything but another voice expressing an opinion. Take it for what it's worth.

Yeah, still have to talk it out with the next person to bring it up. bd "Someone took my spot!" "I hate lame caches!" "People should do things my way!" No need for a new thread, just Google it. I promise that after 10 years and millions of cachers and caches you don't have any new complaints to say about this game. And this is the wrong thread to say it in.

I think it's not about caching at all. It's about how two people negotiate a relationship. That's the heart of the matter. If the boyfriend is already causing you to look for help with that... well, you know the rest. Caching is probably just the issue of the moment.

I know a couple, she loves to cache, he loves to make her happy, so he drives and reads a book while she goes after the caches. It's worked for them for 10 years and thousands of caches.

Bummer about the family strife, I have no answers for that, but I do know that such issues brings on (or exacerbates) depression. When you are depressed you don't enjoy things that used to make you happy. Go caching if you feel like it, or let it go for a while. When your situation resolves itself, and one way or the other it will, the depression will lighten up and you will enjoy caching again. When you find yourself at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on!

We have been overly reserved for OT, haven't we?

Geocaching is like any other hobby. Someone gets it or they don't. Trying to interest him in geocaching now that he's told you he doesn't 'get it' is not likely to succeed. I tell people about caching and teach geocaching classes with some regularity, will be doing it again next week, and you can usually see the interest - or lack thereof, in about five minutes or less. Committing to a relationship does not mean that you give up what you enjoy. You can and should have both. Hike with him when you want to, and find some fellow geocachers to cache with or go on your own when you want to. Let him go hiking, you go to a geocaching event. I understand 'inseparable', but in any healthy relationship that doesn't mean 'imprisoned'. If he's a control freak who wants to manage you...RUN! I regularly cache with women whose husbands do not cache. Those are the couples who make it work. I've been caching for nine years now, and found thousands of caches in 28 states. My wife doesn't cache. Thinks it's dumb. She does her thing, I do mine, we're both happy. We're very different people who chose to learn how to coexist. We've just entered our 39th year of marriage. We raised five great kids together. We learned to give and take such that we both get what we need. It works for us.