Buggheart

I've never had it pop up while viewing here but Kiva is in fact a legit site. I've been donating to Kiva for a few years now as have many of my friends.

There are two within a half mile from my house that I haven't found. One is apparently in an empty lot between two houses. I went there once but there were too many homeowners out and about so I felt weird and drove off. The other is in a wooded area where everyone who has logged it thus far has complained about a great deal of mud and mosquitoes, neither of which interest me, so I've ignored that one as well.

I've stated before that I'm a minimalist so I have a really bad habit of getting to a cache and not having anything to trade or write with. I tend to get out of the car and take nothing but my keys and GPS. I'm sure it drives my mom (my caching partner) nuts because we get there and I've got nothing to write with or trade and she ends up spotting me. So I recently got a tiny Sharpie marker that hooks onto my keychain so I've always got something to write with. As long as I haven't left my keys in the car

Well, I am a creative person who loves to read and laugh. So the caches I am most appreciative of are those that have a clever container and/or a well thought out cache description with some humor injected. There are just not that many breathtakingly interesting locations where I live so for me it's about the creativity of the individual doing the hiding. I love something that is cleverly packaged or hidden and I love it when someone puts some thought and humor into writing the cache listing. One of my favorites is a very creative letterbox cache I recently found. I'd love to find another that is so well done. It was so enjoyable even though it was really cold out that day. I also really like an interesting, creative puzzle that is different from the norm. It's easy to stick a suduko puzzle on a cache and find a tool to quickly figure it out but a creative puzzle that takes some thought and creative thinking or collaboration with a caching partner is enjoyable for me as well (as long as there are no errors in the puzzle that make it too difficult to solve).

Wow, I didn't think of bringing a GPS into the park with me. I was thinking of outside the park/resort area. Still doesn't change my answer though as I'm very much a minimalist when I go to a theme park I don't carry a bag. I bring only money, sunglasses, and maybe a chap stick (who am I kidding, definitely a chap stick). It it doesn't fit in my pocket or my bra it doesn't go with so there'd be no GPS bringing for me. I guess I'm a freak.

MySpace is internet herpes. edit to add: my Facebook Snork I know. I couldn't stand it anymore. It had to go.

Nope, not on Twitter and don't know much about it. I'm on Facebook and up until last week MySpace but I downsized and trashed the MS account. Facebook is much more fun.

It sounds like there won't be any opportunity to find anything nearby so unless there is something within walking distance of the resort I wouldn't bring mine. p.s. Have a great trip! Sounds like tons of fun

There's a Michigan one too at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Geocachingco...8221&ref=ts

Yep, I'd say you're probably hooked. Welcome!

That's what I was thinking, but from a different angle. If you could rig a power source, a motion detector and a robotic hand that grabs at anything poking around inside, you'd certainly raise some blood pressure. Or a simple infrared trigger, set back from the opening so it isn't activated until someone reaches or pokes inside, that causes a skeletal hand to emerge clutching a plaque with the stage two coords? Just sayin... If you did that you may as well just dig an extra hole next to that grave so I could fall into it when I instantly drop dead from the fright

I'd be worried about getting grabbed. ~~~Shudder~~~

If you agree with the DNF, why not just go into your log and change it to DNF? Sounds like you're still not gonna be happy unless someone lets you have that smiley.

I agree with the above. If you arrived at the cache site and the only thing for a hundred yards was one tree or one lightpole I'd say the hide was obvious. But as you stated there were 2 trees and the lightpole at GZ so to me that's not 100% obvious. I've visited caches where my GPS lead me 10 feet from a solitary tree in the middle of a huge field. Thinking it was obviously in the tree, I looked all over that tree, climbed it, swung from branches, crawled on my hands and knees at the base of it only to DNF it after a half hour search. Came back the next day with a ladder and tried again. It wasn't until I trusted my GPS and looked down that I found it on the ground and not where I thought was the 100% obvious spot. Something similar happened a week later where my GPS and the satellite map led me to a spot about 50 feet from the cache so I DNF'd that one too. It bites to seek a cache and not find it, but there's nothing wrong with a DNF. Had the cache actually been there, the DNF log is valuable info to the owner and other seekers. Point is, the cache you logged as a find (had it not been archived) really could have been in any one of those places so I agree that it was not right to replace it. And since you were technically the hider, is it really a find? I'm thinking not.

Yes, I have, but I didn't splurge at all. I used to carry my Canon digital around but it was bulky and heavy so I stopped bringing it along. Earlier this month I picked up a Kodak Easy Share simply because it was very inexpensive and rather small so it's lighter and easier to carry around than my other one. It's not the best camera around but I'm happy with it.

IT WON'T BORE US!!!! I promise you it's boring, but here goes: I looked up to find Chris Noth reaching a hand out to help me down to the sidewalk. He and I found a few caches and then started walking around the inside part of the mall where we enjoyed a Cinnabon and some Carrie/Big type conversation and then went to a section of the mall where Old English Sheepdog races were taking place. Big, being a rich SOB gave me $13,000 to bet on which dog I thought would win the race. I lost every penny of it. He gave me some more money to bet on a different dog and the 2nd time my dog (Fred) won the race and we made a killing. However on the way out of the racetrack I was stopped and had to give the money back because I was ineligible. After that Chris disappeared and I was wandering down a street in what looked to be a very dangerous part of town. After walking for a while and being scared and totally lost, I came upon a huge stadium with tons of people milling around outside. I found out that the Superbowl was being played there that day and didn't want to get into the crowd and all the traffic so I turned around and figured I try to find my way back to the mall and hopefully my hotel. Fortunately Big pulled up in his limo before too long and gave me a ride back to a hotel that was wayyyy nicer than the one I was staying in. The end. Ain't ya sorry you asked?

I KNEW you were gonna say that! Well I've only been doing this a short while so I don't have a whole year of experience from which to choose. So for achievement I'll go with the fact that I night cached out in the woods at Halloween time and it was very terrifying but I got used to it and had a good time so I'm very proud of myself about that. As far as blunders go, I always manage to hurt myself while caching so I could go with the cuts on my hands and arms or the time I brained myself on a tree branch (how I accomplished that being so vertically challenged I have no clue) or all the things I typed out here on the forums that I didn't think about enough and they came out wrong/had double meanings that I didn't think about beforehand.

I have! Earlier this month I dreamed that I was at an outdoor mall in Atlanta and just started geocaching out of the blue. I had no GPS or anything and just started digging around in some shrubs and found 3 caches there. Then when I looked up from signing the logs and started walking back down the hill I was up on Chris Noth (the guy who plays Big on Sex & the City) was there and helped me down and then we cached together. There was a lot more to the dream but not related to geocaching so I won't bore you with the rest. Not sure what it all means but it was entertaining for sure.

I've never heard of anything like that around here, but I'm kind of new so there could be but I just don't know it. I sure would have loved to have know about geocaching a few years ago. I spent 2 weeks alone in Oslo in December a few years back and it would have been nice to have some geocaching to do to keep me busy. I've heard that there are plans underway to publish a large number of caches to be activated on New Year's Day so I'm looking forward to what that brings. Especially since about 12 inches of snow fell here on Friday and it's looking much like Oslo Should be interesting.

Geo-poser Huh?

It must be hitting us here in Michigan now. Strong winds and heavy rain all night kept me from sleeping soundly and now it's so cold my eyes just about froze open when I went out this morning. Was hoping to hit a few caches on my day off too but it's just too cold to be enjoyable.

Churches are ultimately only concerned with finding Jesus. Yeah. He seems to be lost all the time. I don't get it. Maybe the next person who finds him oughta give him a GPS or something.

In keeping with the Harry Potter rules, I think Squib would actually be incorrect in this context. A Squib is defined as one who is born of magical or wizarding parents but possess no magical powers themselves. So since my mom geocaches but my dad doesn't that makes me a half-blood. Since both my grandparents were dead before the geocaching even existed and my dad has no interest, he'd be a Squib. But if he did have an interest he'd be Muggle-born or a Mudblood. So muggle doesn't really work in this context either. I know way too much about Harry Potter. Loser.

Wow, only two finders since August! They must be really smart! They must be bloody brilliant! Smartypants

The only one I can think of right now that I'd really like to finish up is the 5 Kill Cache. My mom won the FTF head start on it at a geo Halloween party back in October and we wandered around in the dark for 2 hours thinking it was a 2-stage multi. Turns out it was 5 stages with over 4 miles of walking but we didn't know that because they just gave us the paper and said go. We gave up after getting partway to the 2nd stage. Would love to go back and finish that one up during daylight hours when the scary stories tucked inside the containers won't freak me out. There's also a puzzle cache called Miss America that's been calling to me for a while now. Hoping to figure it out over the winter and snag it eventually. Edited to add: That I'd like to cache in a 2nd state. I've cached in the US and Canada so I'd like to cache in another state now. And I need to hide my first cache. I have the general area in mind and the theme and container, just have to finalize the location and find the container online somewhere as it's kind of unique.