M&DofKJE

It is official. The record for the number of caches hit in a 24 hour time period is 263 (for now). It was set by a group of Germans in Jacksonville the weekend prior to GW3. Team Sparrow is planning an attempt for this fall.

Also contact The Federation, Stressmaster, Paintfiction (who placed "The Federation must pay!" if that provides a hint on evilness) and I dare say, my daughter Agent K who has managed to outdo me on close to muggle caches. All 4 are regularly called evil.

OK... tossing my 2 cents in. I would like to see a rotation, maybe west, central, east, overseas. How about Finland hosting a GW event? (I say this living a scant 80 miles from GW3). Texas, California, and a few others would make ideal locations. But....... despite what has been said about the numbers... it ISN'T about the numbers at these events. It's about the fun and cameraderie. (and the food... gotta mention all that food!) If there were sufficient interest, why not Washington? That's where it all began!

Agent K (8) has done 30+ in a day with me. She and I are planning a record attempt for this fall. (We gotta break 264?)

All 1800+ T/B's and T/B varieties were distributed without incident. I must say they are very well organized. All T/B's were signed out so whoever had your bug... we know who they are. And..... if they haven't logged it in a week, they start getting nasty emails from NEFGA members.

Home from GW3. I saw lots of cachers. And we thought it was about the numbers!

OK. I'm busted. I've been using Jeremy's account passwords to approve my own caches and secretly unexpectedly archive and refuse caches using approvers names. --Carleen P. (Doh! Forgot to relog!)

Armed with white jeep! Ready to release. (Boy, you should have seen the effort people put into getting those jeeps!)

FREE FOR ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm going to the SBC convention from Jun 19-22. I'm going to have some free time on the 20th and 21st in which I would like to do some caching. I'm going on a bus with my church's choir and orchesta so I won't have my car... so I would need some transportation as well. Would anyone be intersted in driving me around so I can get some numbers? Thank you. "Dad"of KJE

Wow, what do the owners think of having their bugs squirreled away in one cache for so long? Or does it get alot of turnover? It gets a decent amount of turnover. It's the only macro within a decent proximity to Daytona International Speedway, which happens to be a goal for a number of travel bugs. We are taking all the bugs in it and another T/B lodge to GW3. That'll be about another 15 bugs in the event listing.

Finland (a home of geocaching) obviously isn't in western Europe.

Some of the rangers in this area can tell a cacher from 1000 feet away by how they're dressed and what they carry. From talking with them, they have had nothing but great experiences with cachers. It also keeps the visitor counts up... a very good thing when fighting for state funds.

There's a bunch going to GW3. Me and my daughter are emptying out our lodges for the weekend. I think I hold the record for most T/B's in a physical cache with 42 present at one time.

How hard is it to ask for permission anyway? Most of the businesses love caches. Here's one case in point. This cache was hidden by my 8 y.o. daughter. She asked for and got permission. The manager was kind enough to point out the places it would be OK, and not OK. His kindness made for a very unkind cache. (Anyone else want to call an 8 y.o. sweetie of a girl evil?)

Well, in the Daytona area there are a few law enforcement cachers, including one that was able to explain over the radio what a huge male was doing in the park with an 8 year old girl during school hours.... (my daughter's homeschooled and she was hiding eggs for her event in the woods, but it was a funny situation...) There is also a cache hidden in the median of a busy road right in front of the DBPD which I have learned the officers like watching people go for it.

Oh gee, and GW3 coming up...

They also become more interested if they get their own profile. It is great writing practice for them when they type their own logs. It also gives them practical experience on the computer. Just be ready for your child to want to start hiding his/her own caches. 44 of them to date..... They have a tendency to become well established cachers in their own right given time.

Maybe it has someting to do with where are the caches, even the urban ones, hidden? Hmmmm.....? My daughter hid one in the fountain garden of a local historically black college. I've seen a few comments on the page as to how some people feel about being there. Is it possible that non-caucasian cachers feel the same about going into the lily white areas of town looking like what we look like snooping around? Just a thought.

90 seconds from hidden to found once.

I'm going and looking forward to meeting a bunch of pieces of paper inside containers.Agent K and I are going up late Friday afternoon, caching through the night, and arriving at GW3 with hopefully 100+ finds. Anyone want to tag along?

Speaking as a husband who used to not be interested in geocaching. My wife developed interest in this hobby first. She liked the interesting places we could go. I wa... well... not impressed. However, a few weeks into our participation, I came home late one night, and she had a cache that had just popped up put into her GPSr. She didn't know the area that well, and the kids were asleep, so she begged me to go for it. I gave in and went out and found.... a nice clean log sheet. I had beaten everyone else to it. My superior area knowledge had won out (not that I had any competitive juices begin to flow...). I was superior to the others in the area. Needless to say, I was hooked. The competition is the part that got me hooked. For my daughter, it is the thrill of the hunt. For my wife, it's the scenery. The one thing about this sport I like is that there is something in it for everyone. You just have to find the right bait to hook your husband into caching for life. You can do it. After all, you hooked him to you for life....

You may want to write a note on the cache page that you want the bug grabbed. Someone may be more likely to take it and move it if you do that. I have done that once, and bada-bing, bada-boom, it was taken and moved on.

Ummm.... #24. I think off the map counts as a major headache.

Around here you end up losing out. I come home from work sometimes late at night, and there's my wife, at the door, GPS and cache page in hand... and out I go. That's what hooked me to this competition... errr..... hobby.