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i post a note if i haven't made a concerted effort to look for a cache -- i.e. we made a trip to asheville, nc and there was a multi that we did all the steps for but didn't attempt the final cache because it started getting dark. so i made a note that we did all the steps but would have to wait on the final until our next trip up. another cache (same trip) we didn't attempt the cache because we forgot to write the coordinates down, but it alerted me to a cemetary that i would be interested in because thomas wolfe and o henry were buried there. i left a note to say thanks, and that next time we were in the area we would actually look for the cache. i wouldn't have known about the cemetary if it weren't for the cache, but i didn't have time to even think about the cache. i log dnf's if i've looked and couldn't find it. sometimes people attempt to help my idiocy then.

i have aaa and an understanding boyfriend.

are we an english major? i was, and i do the same thing. it also grates on my nerves with the many forms of "there" ... there. hehe.

spider myths i had never heard this, so i went looking. according to this website and others i've found, the name "daddy long legs" actually refers to two seperate type of creatures -- daddy longlegs, which feed on vegitation, and daddy longlegs spiders, which may have venom, but there is no evidence of such a bite causing any human detrimental reaction and the only way this could be tested would be to milk one for it's venom and inject it into a human -- therefore this theory has never been tested. brown recluses have a similar fang structures and they are easily able to bite humans. the website is much more in depth and more eloquent as well. <edited because i misread the first time>

from another that was there (along with doc-dean), i'd say it was very successful and a very enjoyable time! we all hada blast, and it was important knowing that we could help our neighbors in need. thanks kat for the event!

this one is from the nj nets ($2.97) made of durable nylon. nylon works too; i'd say nylon or canvas.

not really, because you can't put it on your back, it'd still have to be over the shoulder (an inconvenience when one is digging through the bushes for a cache). as i was nodding off to sleep last night i remembered that i have a keroppi one in my closet made of sweatshirt material. i'll dig it out and post pics of it to give a better idea.

actually, i can't see it being too hard to make them, so if it doesn't end up working out i may just make my own and buy the patches. but i'd still like the HTG thing, instead of dragging out my sewing maching (or at least unearthing it on my desk).

bigger than a purse, smaller than a backpack. nike used to do them for promotions, and apple used them as bags in their stores. theirs were usually very thin vinyl or plastic, but i would say a more water-resistant vinyl or canvas would be good. the website i got the pic from is chinese, so i don't know approximate cost or what the ones in this particular picture are made of (also, i didn't explore that website very much).

i currently use a keroppi tote bag for my caching -- has all my swag, tbs, pens, and extras for geocaching. i want to put in my request for a tote bag like this: this is the closest thing i can find (actually it's almost exactly it). a drawstring backpack type tote that i can take with me to go caching that maybe has the logo. or signal would be cool too --- yeah, a giant signal. . i'm not looking for something to take with me up the side of a mountain (though i'm sure some people would be looking for that ) because the highest point in florida is not exactly that high. i just wanna bag. can you make it happen?

we both looked at your stats on your profile. you only have one tb, so it wasn't hard to figure out i think you never released it in the troop964 cache, so when rberfield picked it up, he just grabbed it since it still said it was in the hands of the owner (that's what it says before release). i usually email the owner when that happens to see if he wants to release it first, but the picker-upper may not have thought about that happy caching, and have fun with those tbs! i have 4 (though i still think one was lost to hurricane ivan) and i love watching them move.

i agree -- it wasn't released in a wisconsin cache, so the first person to pick it up "grabbed it" from you, therefore there isn't any mileage associated with the move to ohio. technically, i suppose, you could contact the 2 people who moved it and backtrack (remove logs and replace for them to grab from the cache etc), but it's probable that someone will pick it up in the meantime and it'll be messed up again. the bug's mission is so broad though that i'm sure it'll rack up a ton of mileage anyhow; i wouldn't worry about its first step.

as eartha referred to another topic, jeremy is in the process of rewording the travel bugs and is/was looking for feedback in the thread. check it out if you are still concerned.

Thank you all for the info and i am most likely to stencil the info on the spike. and since i am buying the dogtags from GC.COM I am helping to support them. I am just not using the dogtag part, just the number part. I know I am taking my chances that people might not understand that this spike is a TB but that is the chance that I choose to take if I do it this way. I may just stencil the TB logo on to of the spike to help give people an idea. it is more ofa mechanical problam rather than anything else. The steel used in these spikes is perhaps the hardest metal I have come in contact with. I can simply find no easy way of attaching the TB that will work, be secure, and not look like crap. however, by the time I get the TB that might change. i remember seeing your questions in the forums (with specific reference to the railroad spike, which is how i remember it) but i didn't know how to answer it so i chose not to. I can't see how it would be a problem to use your number without the actual dogtag, but i would, if i were you, at least make sure that the spike is in a baggie that signifies that it is in fact a travel bug. i know my mother has several railroad spikes, and if i came upon a railroad spike i may be tempted to keep it/give it to her without realizing it was a tb. if you are able to engrave the tb number on the spike, i would try to engrave "travel bug" on it too, and put it in a baggie. whether people think bags/tags are tacky or not, this may be a case where you need it for definitive notice. april

last time...

and this? beautiful.

how's this?

hey pye, i don't want to write, because, well i don't like to write nonfiction ... but do you need any help with copyediting? i was copy chief at the college newspaper (read: paying job) and i really love to do it ... it would help me stretch my mental muscles ....

Ich lebe in Tampa, Florida aber ich möchte aus helfen. das ist nur ungefähr 50-60 Meilen von hier. I took 2 years of German, but i don't remember it very well; i thought i would stretch my mental muscles. I don't know when i will be able to get over there, but certainly fairly soon, especially if I have a reason.

the ammo cans in my area are pretty expensive, but my tupperware cache lasted through the last 3 hurricanes and was barely wet. (in the woods). the only reason i replaced it was because so many people were having trouble finding it that i thought if i made the container bigger it may help. also, i wanted to place 2 tbs there and i couldn't have fit them in the previous container.

brian, if i ever get up to jersey i'm hunting down one of your caches and this is exactly what i'm going to write that i left. 'course, that won't be what i left, but it sure will be funny

i get a lot of business cards for the local churches and cassette songs of sing-along bible songs too ... i think someone thinks i need to be saved O:-)

i usually only take sig. items or tbs anymore, and i leave froggies (which some may think are junk, but i happen to think are adorable) and mini playing cards or bubbles. usually i go to the party store and buy in bulk things i happen to like, hoping others will like them too, or hit the camping aisle or walmart and look for something cost effective. i'm always on the lookout when i'm shopping for something inexpensive that is pretty neat -- at bed bath and beyond i found these things called "spa eyes" that had liquid in them that you could heat or refrigerate and i thought "hey, those would great for the reluctant spouse of a geocacher! so i bought two. they were only $1.99, and if you pick things up off the cuff, you're much less likely to think of the total cost. anytime i pick something up it ends up in my bag until mext time i go out. clearance racks are great too.

well, you can look at all caches and how you've logged (posted note, couldn't find, found, etc) on your cache page. that's how i always look for caches and bugs i've already noted but not necessarily found. for instance, i left a note on a cache that a bug of mine was in, but it's far away from me so i just look on the "all logs for caches" part and up it pops! that's all i need; i don't know about you. i leave notes for a variety of reasons, so i don't know if it would help to tell me what caches i've logged and for what reason i've logged it. april

i don't know how it is in other parts of the country, because i've read a few threads where it seems that hotels were frowned upon. here in tampa florida there are bunches of hotels and we all coexist fairly well. i don't see a problem with taking more bugs that you leave, but as it states in most of the hotel cache pages here, what use is a travel bug hotel without travel bugs? take one leave one is a guideline, but i can't see there being any problems with taking three if you can help with their missions but only leaving one or two. i regularly check the web site to see if there are any tbs in the area that i can help, even if they're in caches i've been to. also, when i start a bug i generally put it in a cache i've already been to or i drop it in one of my caches.