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I relate. On DNFs, my comment usually runs to "Phooey, why on earth do I keep doing this! This is ridiculous, I swear I'm going to quit caching! Phooey phooey phooey!

"Amidst nature, the trees and stones will teach that which can not be learned from books." Caches in the woods are my first preference.

I collected a TB here in Oregon last spring that wanted to go back to Illinoise. I was going to be going both to Colorado to visit my brother in June, and then July would be in Michigan for a family reunion. I emailed the owner asking where he would rather I place it, or just find another cache here within a couple weeks to put it in. He told me he didn't mind waiting, and so I opted for the Michigan trip since that was the closest to Ill. Okay, so I place it in a cache in Michigan, get back home to Oregon, check the status of this TB, and find that someone from Colorado visiting there too took it and brought it back home with him! Well, this guy turns out to be in the same area in Colorado as my brother, so I emailed him quick, asked him to go retrieve the TB from the cache this guy had put it in. My very obliging brother did this for me, but unfortunately, the little statue guy(Rider of Rohan) was not attached to the tag any longer. I emailed the owner explaining and asking what he wanted us to do with it. My brother ended up mailing him back the tag. Darn - I really wanted to help that bug fulfill its' mission!

I read of one in a dense thicket of rhododendrons in the wilds of North Carolina, once upon a time.

When feeling blah and need a laugh, browse the geocaching forums.

There are times when I'm going about my business, sometimes reflecting how indulgent some of it seems, and then wonder what a counterpart of mine living in a repressed country would think of it. ...And then send out a quick, mental thankfulness for the freedom we have here. Freedom dearly paid for. I too at this time would like to thank those who have gone before, and those with us now.

When I go on a mini cache-hunt, I just transfer my drivers licence, debit, and gas card into my Columbia Sportswear fannypack. That way I'm not lugging my purse along, or need to worry about leaving it in the car. Have a few trade items, plus the usual necessities - chapstick, brush, tissue, pen, pad. My gps fits on the belt and I like to carry my water bottle. Going purseless feels great!

Well, it's the little plastic animals I prefer, like the stag, bull, and gekko I've chosen over time. There's just "something" about them that will draw me. Though it's fun to find a wide variety of things in a cache, and I'll get a kick out of trying to guess the reasoning behind some of them, I get a feeling of satisfaction when I leave some things in one that either had very little in it, or had junky stuff. Yep, you just never know what may appeal to some people, that's part of the fun!

I had read about geocaching in a newspaper article a few years ago and I was very interested, as it sounded like scavenger hunting to me, which I've always enjoyed. However, I was computerless and GPSless at the time and consequently forgot about it. But...last February on a beautiful sunny day I took my two boys out to a place on the river that I knew they would enjoy. While hiking around the top of this island, I spotted what at first I thought was a plastic bag of trash, but on closer inpspection turned out to be the contents of a geocache. I was just so tickled...took the bag into a little area out of the wind between some logs, and read every page of the log. My boys chose a couple little toys, and since I didn't have anything in my purse that would have been appropriate, left a mood ring I had been wearing. By this time I had owned a computer for a few months, and as soon as I got home, googled geocache, found the site and put it in my favorites. The GPS came a couple months later. A few months ago I returned to Elk Rock Island to find its' bonus cache, and then discovered that the place where I had found the original, was not the correct place at all, it must have been moved by someone to the place I found it. I was just grateful for that happenstance, for the enjoyment I have experienced this past year being involved in geocaching has been so meaningful, I would hate to think of all I would have missed.

Talk about timing! I had planned on driving to Longview from Portland today to visit my dad, all dependent on whether the freezing rain prediction came true or not. Well, it did. Rats! No way will I drive in that. Great article, I enjoyed reading it, all the more interesting since I've noticed how you've raised the level of hides in Longview since moving there. I always try and search one out whenever I visit, but I usually run out of enough time. One of these times I plan on finding "Home Tweet Home"

I just plain like the idea of signature items. Like it's a part of your creativity that may inspire another. A way to get something of yourself out into the world that otherwise might never have. Gets the creative juices flowing. And it's fun!

Well, I for one had never read the "mmm, dead monkey?" bit, and I just have to say it's one of the funniest things I've read in a long time. You people are priceless!

Thanks for the info, I fixed my logs! For my next question, how do I change that message at the bottom of my log that says "view/edit logs/images on a separate page" and also mine have the message "upload an image for this log". I notice others don't have all that. And....this is on these forum posts, what's with the "warn (0%) with brown squares mean at the bottom of my id?

That was too funny, I love it!

Thanks, I just entered my two other finds, and noticed what you had said about the scroll. What's the difference between 'found it' and 'write a note' tho? I did those two as 'write a note' Later I'll have to figure out how to get a cool picture to go along with my id too! I'll post if I can't figure it out.

This may have many of you rolling your eyes, but I just posted a find for the first time, and have no idea what the deal is about it being archived? It told me it was going to do that, but I couldn't see any other way to get it entered. What does that mean and how do I just log a cache in the simplest manner possible? There's a lot I don't know about the pc world.