idocdlw

thanks all for the good info...I was a very avid cacher years ago but trying to get back to becoming more active...I appreciate all the good info

Thank you K13...can you give specifics as to other ways to check?

Thank you Isonzo Karst! No go on the October event...I will just be coming off of the Florida Paddler's Rendezvous & will be scrambling to prep for Halloween (my favorite holiday). I think I can make the Nov event...I'll put it on my calendar.

Agree that google translate is a lifesaver...I was stationed in Germany for two years. My background is math/science and I am not gifted in music or languages. The German that I did manage to learn was due to having to painstakingly translate German text & communicate with the shop owners in the little village I lived in. I don't remember what the German word was for one multi-cache, but it translated on most translation sites to "corner". I spent several weekends in the forest in the snowy winter just to learn that the German word actually meant "niche". I learned the painful way...but it was an adventure! (Kind of painful as my father is German whose parents only spoke German (a rural dialect) and my mother was a formal German language instructor!).

Hi peeps, After 5 yrs on the road in a motorhome...taking care of family members & doing volunteer work, I bought a retirement property in Perry, FL (zip 32347). I am looking for other geocachers to network with. There are several active geocaches local but the CO has not been active on the website for many years. Perry is 50 miles SE of Tallahassee so I am open to Tally groups. I just need to find a new group now that I have found a place to settle permanently. Give me a reach out and/or an invite if you are nearby please. v/r Dawn (idocdlw)

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Received coin and zipper pulls today (WOW...FAST!). They are absolutely fantastic. Thanks!!

I don't work toward FTF's. Was excited to log my first several months ago. The publication was posted late in the evening on a weekend. I headed out at a reasonable hour, logged the find at 0830 just to find the FTFinder logged at 0930 the same day....HUH? After reviewing the cache, cache owner and FTF claimant, there seemed to be some connections. Oh well...I've come to look at this just like disappearing caches, TB's and GC's...all part of the game. Log your smiley and get on to the next one!

Caching with neices this summer. Found healthy wacky weed growing in large Sterlite containers just next to the cache (a very obvious ammo can). Whoever was growing the weed (it was NOT the cache owner) had big cajones to place his plants at a cache site! Kudos to the cache owner who notified authorities and disabled the cache until the plants were removed. My nieces got an impromptu lesson on drugs. Thankfully their parents were understanding and did not banish them from caching!

I haven't been caching long, but the most valuable thing I've seen in a cache is a Susan B. Anthony dollar - seen in many caches in the south central area of the US. I have a backpack loaded with no longer used PS games that will be "donated"soon. I agree with previous posters...the most valuable find at any cache is the new-found satisfaction that I have actually located the cache! This hobby is so addicting that if there were no such things as TB's, GC's, or SWAG I would still be out there on my "tupperware hunt"...(yes, I do take a lot of ribbing from my non-caching friends and family...but it's all worth it...I have even converted a few!)

Love the coin and the zipper pulls. Gotta have one. Zipper pulls will make great stocking stuffers for my caching neices and nephews. Getting a few extra to use as SWAG. Great job on the design. Email sent.

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Thank you so much for sharing this log. Every day that I geocache, I am convinced that many geocachers are the angels that walk amongst us. I realize that geocachers come from every walk of life and a small percentage would never be considered angels. I may be biased because of all the good that geocaching has brought to me personally. All I can say is things happen for a reason. Thank goodness all the stars fell into place for this family. My prayers are with them.

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What a healthy attitude. I have released several TB's and only one has gone missing (due to an act of nature). I recently started collecting GC's with the intent of setting them all out "into the wild". None are so expensive that I will be broken if they disappear, but I do have an emotional attachment to each and every one as it was my hard earned dollars that paid for them in the first place. I will release all as planned and keep my fingers crossed. I picked up a non-trackable "lucky yen coin" from a cache recently and passed it on to another cache...perhaps this will influence my karma !?! I really don't want to drill my coins so I guess I am resigned to the fact that they may disappear. I wish great blessings upon any geocacher who finds a TB and/or GC and discovers, retreives, and/or places it in accordance with geocaching guidelines. Happy Caching, Dawn

I am so sorry for your loss. I lost a 9 yr-old epileptic poodle two years ago, just before I left for Korea, where I was not allowed to take my pets. My parents fostered my younger poodle for the year I was in Korea and they did a wonderful job. However, with the loss of our "alpha dog" both my younger poodle and I were at a loss as to how to re-establish and redefine our relationship. Geocaching has changed all that. Reba is now seven years old and is slowly learning to be alpha (we also have a cat who thinks she is the alpha dog, so this is definitely progress). Geocaching has helped...just the one on one time together has bolstered Reba's confidence. She isn't much help in finding caches (unless they contain a food item with a strong smell) and she turns into a major wimp anytime there are thorns, the weather is extremely cold or there is deep running water nearby (she's only 8 lbs, so this is understandable). Sometimes I make her tough it through the rough spots, sometimes I get a real soft heart and pick her up and carry her. I normally cache solo (from a human aspect) so she is my caching buddy. I don't think I could enjoy caching without her.

Thanks jcar...exactly what I was looking for!

I've released several TB's with goals of reaching caches near where my nieces and nephews live. Once the TB reaches them, is there a way they can take ownership and give the TB's new goals? Thanks in advance for your help. idocdlw