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I just tell them that I'm on a scavanger hunt. Everybody knows what a scavanger hunt is so then I don't have to go through the whole explanation bit.

Lizzie You just really never know what's going to happen with TB's and their goals. I released my Lizzie Borden TB 22 months ago from Kansas with a goal to travel to Fall River, MA to have her picture taken in front of the Borden House Bed & Breakfast where the crime occurred, then to return to Kansas to a cache close to my home. I've never had a TB with such a specific goal, and to make matters worse, the TB was fairly large sized and not able to fit into a lot of caches. I figured that there was no way Lizzie would ever make it, but released her anyway. It took 22 months, but Lizzie made it-she even got her photo taken outside and also inside the bed and breakfast in the actual murder room. Last week she was put in a cache 20 miles from my home, and I went and picked her up. It still amazes me that this TB was so successful. So you just never know what's going to happen. That's the fun of it.

Southeast Kansas, between Pittsburg and Fort Scott at a little town called Farlington.

There was a similar episode in the Kansas City area concerning a TB thief who had stolen 20plus TB's which had been going on for about a year. Nothing was posted or anything-the TB's just kept disappearing from the caches. My Mr. BooCat TB was involved and I just gave up all hope for him. Then suddenly a few weeks ago, I saw that my Mr. BooCat was placed in a cache west of Kansas City about a year after he disappeard. All the other stolen TB's were placed in the cache too. It looked like somebody created a fake account to dump off all the stolen TB's Subhubby When I saw it, at first I didn't believe that all the TB's were dumped in the cache, and the jerk was just fooling us. Luckily the bugs were actually put in the cache and the next few cache finders had a real bonanza of TB's and some said it was the best TB stash they had ever seen. Anyway, I'm glad that whoever stole the bugs finally returned them and they are in circulation again. I'm glad that this is a TB horror story that had a wonderful ending.

MaxB on the River is pretty cool. He moved two of my travel bugs-one was in a cache in Kansas and the other one was in a cache in Texas, so he does actually go get the bugs. I thought it was really great that one cacher got two of my travel bugs that were a few states apart.

$6.00 for shipping and handling seems like it's kind of of steep for a log book. I 'm almost sure it could be sent media mail for less than a couple of dollars. I wonder how much it costs for just the "handling" charge. I don't really like merchants who charge a handling charge-they are alreay making a profit off the merchandise price, so seems like another charge is kind of socking it to the customer.

That's a really cool candle holder!!!!!! I've found some nice swag, since I've been first to find on quite a few caches, but I've never found anything nearly as great as that.

I'm having the same problem too. Maybe if I stay up until 4am to write logs, the servers won't be so busy.

The pickings are slim here. There are 18 caches in a ten mile radius of my home. Out of the 18, 13 of them are mine. It's gotten better though. When I started geocaching a year and a half ago, there were no caches within a ten mile radius

I've never been afraid of coyotes. They are always more scared of me than I am of them. The coyotes in this area run at the sight of a human. This is the boonies of Kansas, and the coyotes are even in the yard at night. Anyway, in 30 years of very close proximity to lots of coyotes, I've never been bothered by them.

I've used PayPal ever since they first started and gave you $5 for opening an account. I've used it a lot and have never had any trouble at all.

I've had travel bugs sit for months at a time in a cache. My Mr. BooCat TB sat in a cemetery cache for 4 months before he got picked up, but now he's moving again. Seems like on my travel bugs, each bug has a spurt of activity where it moves a lot for a while, then it doesn't move for a while. kind of in a cycle. As mentioned earlier, be patient.

Wow, that's a lot of weed seeds!!!!! In Kansas we also call those things beggar lice. I've done a few caches lately where there are weed seeds that stick to everything, and it's a tedious chore to get them off. We have those beggar lice, but they don't bother me as much as the seeds that we call "stick tights". They are a lot smaller and are grayish tan in color and they just won't come off of clothing without a lot of picking and pulling.

Someone placed a Jeep TB in one of my caches, and I went to the cache and grabbed it the next day. I had been wanting to get one ever since they came out, and I felt that I had as much right to grab it as anyone else. I put it out within two days in a new cache that I had created, so I got it back in circulation very quickly. I noticed that on that Jeep TB, I wasn't the only cache owner to grab it out of their own cache. I think it must be a pretty common practice, and I see absolutely nothing wrong with it. The same goes for Geocoins. I've grabbed a Geocoin out of my own cache too.

Good website with some good caching items. I ran across a travel bug last week that had the black tags on it and I wondered where the owner got those. They are great and really added something to the travel bug I'm sure that I'm going to order several things from your site.

There was a cache in my area that I had a really rough time with and just could not find. I'd put a note on the cache page about what a tough time I was having trying to locate it, and the owner would email me and offer to send me some hints. I kept telling him I didn't want hints. It was great for me that I didn't accept any hints, because when I finally found the cache, it was like WOWZA!!!!!!, and I'll always remember the big thrill I had. I remember even jumping up and down and yelling YES!!! YES!!!! YES!!!! when I finally found it. It took me three days of searching for the ammo box cache which was a super clever hide. If I had gotten hints, it wouldn't have been nearly as thrilling.

I have several cemetery caches that I've placed, but I just don't like to put a cache near a gravestone. I always place the cache in an area that is not close to any gravestones.

I have another cache that is in a very small, very isolated and old cemetery that totally creeps me out. I put the cache out a few months ago, and was about to leave the cemetery when I got out of my truck and stood by the side of it to take a photo of the little lane leading to the cemetery. I about croaked when I downloaded the picture. I've never had a picture turn out like that before, or since. The sun wasn't shining either and it was getting close to evening. Here's the pic, and needless to say, I don't go by myself anymore when I check the cache.

One of my caches is really spooky. Everytime I go there to check it I get a creepy feeling There are a few geocachers who have tried it at night, but they got creeped out too and left in a hurry. If this doesn't look like a haunted house, I don't know what does.

I think it would be a great idea to get a metal container and chain it to a tree. Then put a combination lock on the cache and it could only be opened if you knew the combination numbers. Someone could email for the combination numbers if they wanted to hunt for the cache.

I was going down a steep hill and started sliding and falling. I reached out and grabbed a small sapling to stop my fall. It stopped my fall, but I got a torn rotator cuff injury to my shoulder. It took about 2 months to heal.

I've had one cache muggled. It was on the fringe of a golf course. I figure kids looking for golf balls found it. I have over 25 caches and the ones that I feel the most secure about are the ones I placed on private property. I feel very fortunate that hubby is good friends with a farmer who has bought up a lot of small old mom and pop farms. I had hubby, who is not a geocacher, ask him if I could put geocaches on all the old farm sites, and he gave permission and thought it was a fun idea. Not many people go on private property, and accidentally stumble across a cache, so I highly recommend putting caches on private property if you can obtain permission from the owner.

I always geocache alone. To me, it's no big deal, but I do carry a cell phone. I'm an older woman, and look like a grandma, so I doubt that some crazy sex fiend will stalk me. This is a relatively safe rural area of the country too, with no big cities even remotely near.

I'm glad this subject came up. I adopted a cache about 3 weeks ago and didn't know exactly what to do. I removed what was left of the old cache which had been totally trashed for a while and I put out a new cache and container in the same spot. I put in the logbook that I had adopted the cache. The cache is still in the name of the previous owner though since I really didn't know how to adopt it officially. Adopted Cache

I don't take any swag out of my own caches, but I do go grab a travel bug if I want it badly.