Save The Murlocs

The souvenirs themselves are a bit cluttery. But we're doing the challenge anyway because it's got us out caching again. We'd had a long slump the last several months for various reasons. When we heard about this challenge, we decided it was a great way to get us going again. So I can live with the clutter. We don't have very many other souvenirs anyway so it doesn't bother me that much. But I do agree that it might have been better if they just awarded one souvenir for the entire month rather than one every day.

Both. Most of the time we just use the app on my phone and pull up the "Nearby" feature. But sometimes we do plan it out.

We just don't bother with swag anymore. We used to try, but it's just not interesting to us. We don't have kids and it's all just mostly kiddie toys.

I'm weird because I don't, overall, mind micros, even urban ones. Sometimes I get tired of them because there sure are a lot of them these days. But what I do is try to find something interesting/pretty/cool etc. about the area the cache led me to. Even in the middle of the city, I often find little side streets or tucked away parks or such things that I never knew were there. Or I just see a pretty flower garden nearby, or find a store I didn't know about across the street, or whatever. Then I can go write a good log about what I saw or did. I guess I just try to make every cache as special as possible, regardless of how good or difficult the cache itself is. I don't always succeed at this...I've had my share of rather dull finds that just counted for another find and that's all. But I try to see the beauty in the world, and in the caches, around me.

I just don't bother to write more than my name/date, because I figure I can just write the "rest of the story" in my online entry. And also, of course, due to lack of room most of the time. I barely even remember how to write by hand anyway! Signing geocache logs is pretty much the ONLY time I actually hand-write anymore.

I first heard it here on the forum months ago, and been using it ever since.

I just last night logged 2, only 2, caches we had found an entire month ago. It took me that long to log 2. Sometimes life just gets in the way for awhile.

We LOVE night caching. It's so fun, so creepy, adds more challenge. Adore it.

Followed you from @LauretteIAm.

Do you mean "want?" :/

Harry Potter is only for kids? Childfree adult here, I LOVE Harry Potter.

We just enjoy the adventure, wherever it may take us. We don't have an actual GPS right now, we only use our phone and therefore we have to do urban ones at this time. And we have found a lot that we LOVED. Very few of our finds have we hated and considered lame. We look for good in all of them. We very often find it. And many lead us to so many new places- we love finding parks and buildings and historical places that we never even knew existed, right in our own town. And wherever caching takes us that day, we just go with the flow and enjoy the sights and enjoy our togetherness. If a cache ends up being at a dumpster? Oh well. We did it together, and it was kinda funny in the end. Even if the LOCATION isn't good, the ADVENTURE almost always is.

Barrens chat rocks.

I enjoy playing, sometimes on days I have lots of time I may play for a long period...but I have other hobbies (such as geocaching of course!), I do get out of the house and do other things, I'm no pig. Not everyone who plays gets that addicted.

I didn't realize they didn't used to mark the objects with little glow dust... Yeah, we've noticed similarities too, we both play and also use the coordinates and Thottbot and reading-the-map systems to zoom in on our in-game goals. When we first started geocaching I remember jokingly remarking, "This is just like doing a quest on World of Warcraft!"

I read them. Why not, might be something helpful, or at least entertaining, there.

TB's do not follow the same trading etiquette that swag does. TB's do NOT have to be traded, one can take/leave as many as he/she desires. This is to help ensure they keep moving, rather than being stuck in one cache forever because every person doesn't have an "equal trade" for them. TB's are meant to move. (People can CHOOSE to trade one for one however, if they wish.) Not trying to be rude and nasty to you, just wanted to point that out.

That is so cool!! I love it!

Yep. We've got one around here just like that, only filled with dead wasps. The name and theme of the cache are actually all about the dead wasps, LOL.

I found an unlisted cache directly beside a listed one once. It was really funny reading all the logs...everyone was saying, "Um there were 2 caches there? I was a little confused..."

This just makes me

Thank you! I understand better now. They really don't seem like "true caches" to me personally, so I'm not wanting them back too bad...as long as there's Waymarking to keep them alive for those who enjoy them.

Being still very new to geocaching and these forums, I haven't quite figured this out yet...what was the "problem" with virtuals? Why are they no longer accepted? Not arguing or saying they should come back, though I have no personal problem with them...just wondering why they were "banished."