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OmahaCachers

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  1. I made a set of travel bugs and put the code in the design. It looked cool! Being a Ramones fan, I had one for each member (at first it was just Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee, Tommy and Marky)and I used the Ramones logo to design it, putting their individual picture on it and the travel bug code on it. I quickly learned that geocachers look for the tag and if they don't see it, they assume the bug is missing. Or maybe it looked so cool but not enough like a travel bug that people took it! I put messages on the caches where they were for people to hang on to them and I'll send them the tag. I only recovered Dee Dee. The others I remade and put the tag on them. The later ones I made with the tags (Richie and CJ) are going along pretty good. (Haven't released my remade ones yet) So if you're clever with the design, make sure you add the tag!
  2. I had a voice recorder thing that you put in stuffed animals. Press and it makes a sound, ya know. My kids said, "I love you Grandma and Grandpa" on it and I put it in a plastic baggie with my mom's high school graduation picture on one side and my dad's high school picture on the other. My parents (also geocachers) were heading to Virginia in their RV so I made some arrangements with a cache owner over there. Sent her the travel bug and she put it in her travel bug hotel. Convinced my parents to go to that hotel ("I hear it's pretty cool! You GOTTA see it!") so when Mom was looking at the travel bugs, she seen her picture. Took her a few minutes to realize what was going on. LOL. My brother filmed it on his phone and I STILL haven't seen it. That was my best destination! I love the band the Ramones and I have various travel bugs I made regarding them. Their destination is the Ramones cache over in the Netherlands. One is SO close to it now. That one is based off the Rock and Roll High School movie. The students were throwing shredded paper (school records) out the window. So that bug is simply a small baggie with shredded paper in it. Labeled on the side "Rock and Roll High School - School Records". Confuses the heck out of people (some people would understand) but it almost made it!
  3. I had it written all out at one time but part of it goes something like this: Leaning on the Lamppost - Herman's Hermits I'm leaning on a lamppost at the corner of the street Waiting for a couple of muggles to walk by Oh me, oh my I hope that slow lady walks by I don't know if I'll be First to Find I can't always be First to Find But anyway I know that I'll try I'm leaning on the lamppost on the corner of the street Waiting for a couple of muggles to walk by I need to finish it up so I can slap my cache up on that lamppost! It's gonna be a cache....someday.
  4. We had a cache that we had no idea what to name it so we called it "FTF Gets to Name This Cache!" So the FTFer named it Jillybean after his daughter and so we renamed it. Sometimes our kids are with us so we have one called Sodor Bridge (I warn people it's not a hint. Just a Thomas the Tank Engine name) and Flower Cache.
  5. I'd love to make a historical cache. I found out that for a few years in the 1930's, big band leader Lawrence Welk lived in here in Omaha Nebraska. I'd like to do a drive by virtual of his house. But then I don't know if the current house owner knows who lived there and might wonder why people started driving by her house and staring at it. So that would be an issue of itself that I'd have to find out about. But I'd like virtuals to come back so I can at least think about how to do it.
  6. My pet peeve is when someone takes a good name, finds 30 caches and then bails. Three years ago and you can't have the name because it's taken. What's even worse if they never even find a single cache with the name! Maybe they should have an inactivity rule or something.
  7. I was listening to Herman's Hermits the other day (I haven't in a long time) and I suddenly realized WHY Peter Noone was leaning on that lamppost! "I'm leaning on a lamppost on the corner of the street, waiting for a couple of muggles to pass by" I'm rewriting the whole song. LOL. It'll be a cache.
  8. I was listening to the Herman's Hermit's the other day (haven't in a long time) and suddenly I realized WHY he was "Leaning on a LampPost!" He was waiting for a muggle to pass by! Now I'm rewriting the song. "Could be a nano, a magneto, a film canister, a key holder, and any cacher can understand why, I'm leaning on the lamppost on the corner of the street waiting for a couple of muggles to pass by!" That's my next cache too... Can't even listen to songs without getting hidden meanings!
  9. I have the Halloween Series. Arachnaphobia is a spider (of course) under a rock, the Haunted House is at a popular Halloween haunted house (supposedly actually haunted, too), Nightmare on Elm St. is part of a red and green striped sock kind of shredded (tried to make it look like a sleeve). It's safety pinned/duct taped at the bottom. In it is a stay awake pill bottle (which no one notices) where I put Freddie's "hit list" (first few names is people he killed off in the movies) which is splattered in "blood". That's the log page. I have it hanging in a fence post topper. I just hid Letterboxer's Lobotomy. It's a fake brain with a matchstick container glued in it. It's really close to a letterbox so I just added that to the title. I love being creative with my caches. I hate boring. LOL.
  10. A few months ago I had in my possession a travel bug that I suddenly decided needed to go to South Dakota. We're in Omaha Nebraska so it's about an hour and a half drive. My husband and I hopped in the car in the middle of the night to take it. We were getting close to our 200th find so we timed our finds along the way to get 200 in SD. The skies were threatening to rain. We had deer jump almost in front of us (ok, I'm kinda exaggerating there but we did see plenty of deer). On the 195th find, out in the middle of nowhere, I got out of the car to start walking toward some trees. Hubby said he was going to turn the car around to shine the headlights that way. I thought he was going to go forward, instead, he backed up and somehow knocked me down and ran over my ankle! Flashlight goes flying and GPS drops. Hubby made me walk it off; wasn't broken, just sprained. I got back in the car and he got the cache. On the way back, he found the flashlight I thought we lost. Made it to South Dakota, left the travel bug in a lamp post cache and it started raining. On the way home, I remembered the first aid kit in the car so I put ice on my ankle. So now I know what it feels like to get ran over without getting seriously hurt. Hubby hates how I laugh at it. "It's NOT funny!". That's the worst I got hurt while geocaching.
  11. I was looking at attributes at boxes. There's (at least) one that says, "Ticks! Thorns! Poison Plants! Takes less than 1 hour. Kid friendly", etc. Yeah..... I WANT my kid to be around Ticks! Thorns! Poison Plants! Sounds like a good time! Sorry no picture but I'm sure you can find an example.
  12. The best one I saw..... There was a new cache hidden called "Oh Deer" because of all the deer they saw while placing it. It was getting kinda dark when we went out to see if there was still enough light to go find it (there wasn't). As we driving, my GPS said "Approching destination. On right.". A second later to our right was an actual deer! Now THAT'S a great container! I doubt it would let me sign it though.... The actual container wasn't nearly as cool though...
  13. We cache in the day with the kids and at night, it's kind of like a date with my husband. It's only on our weekends but I love this ritual We're pretty new to caching and so far we've only done a couple weekends at night. I search for ones that say 24/7 and then if it's easy enough. Heavy Metal (GCPR1) was by far the spookiest one. Sometimes it's best to do it at night so there's not a lot of people watching you make a fool out of yourself! Like standing on a booster seat (on its end) attacking a "Citizen's Patrol" sign at 1:00 in the morning. I bet THAT looked suspicious!
  14. I'm looking for a walkie-talkie too. Don't know what kind yet. My husband does not want a cell phone but maybe he'll do a walkie. It would be better than phones in the woods anyway. Yesterday the kids and I played in the playground while Red Scorpion looked for the cache in the woodsy hilly area. He was taking so long so of course I was getting worried. Being stubborn on finding it is in some ways good but in other ways bad. Or when he's with the kids and I'm off looking. I've got weak knees (I've dislocated them when I was younger) so I get nervous about busting a knee without anyone knowing.
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