SecretSpy711

some of you may laugh at this, and i realize it would probably take a loooong time, but here's my idea: attach a small, tough, rigid container to the TB tag, and set a goal of travelling to, say, australia, pick up a kangaroo tooth (or something unique, but inexpensive), and then try to make its way back to a particular cache for me to pick up. The final destination cache would perhaps be a mystery cache, and the coordinates would only be referenced on the actual TB tag itself. Is this too much of a stretch? I'd like some feedback on this. I'm trying to come up with something unique that might just actually work.

Yes, I removed it because I was getting negative feedback about the idea, it wasnt original (as i had originally thought) and what put me over the top was the minimum distabnce thing, so i just said the heck with it and just have the one cache in the area. You are more than welcome to put a travel bug in that one, however.

Well they are 198 feet apart and apparently that's too close. I was unaware of the minimum distance of 528 feet (how the heck was THAT number decided on?) and so I'm just going to say "the heck with it" and take the truck stop one away. Guess I just wanted to do something unique that wasnt all that unique after all. I'll hafta think of something else, or some unique way to hide one.

Well I guess i'll try it for a little bit and if it doesnt work out i will disable it. thanks for the input.

I had an idea of creating a Travel Bug Truck Stop, where there would be ~3 travel bugs in the cache at any given time, and you are not to take one unless you drop one off. Let me explain further. Say you live in Indiana, and you are planning a trip to Colorado. Problem is, you have a travel bug that wants to get to Florida. So you look at the cache online, check out the travel bugs there and see if there are any that would like to go west, instead of southeast. If there are, you would go to the cache, drop off the [florida] one and take the [colorado] one. I would have a large print sign inside the cache that states that you are not to take one unless you leave one, and to releive the temptation to do so, there would be a normal cache not far away (the coordinates of the normal cache would be mentioned at this truck-stop cache). I have gathered 2 TB's and my brother has a jeep and I was going to do it in the next couple of days. I'd like to get some feedback on the idea. This (imho) would be a useful tool for allowing travel bugs to travel faster, and people might go to this cache more than once, and also treat it as a logbook-only cache if they don't have a TB to put in it.

got it figured out. thanks everyone for all your help.

i looked on the cd for something like that but didnt see anything. If it's there, I missed it. How do I do this? My S&T is part of Microsoft Works (oxymoron) but I only use the S&T part of it.

I checked and re-checked that they both had the same baud rates. I tried several different numbers, although Streets and Trips says to use 4800. What software do you mean? MapSend? I don't want to sound whiny, but Streets and Trips says its compatible with any gps that has NMEA 2.0 or later.....which I do. So theoretically, it should work. Unless I need a driver, which in my mind is actually the most probable cause....Can I download a driver somewhere? I guess I am doing this because I am a poor college student, and I bought the GPS myself, so I would rather ask for the Mapsend sofware for christmas or something and so I need it to tide me over until then.

I just bought a magellan meridian color. i turned on the nmea 2.1 but i still can't get it to work with streets and trips (2001 version). Streets and trips help says i need to "install the gps" using a cd......but it doesnt come with any software. is this something that wont work until i get the mapsend software? my friend has the Garmin version, MapSource i think.....is that even worth trying? What I want to do here is have a real-time map on my laptop for the road. i can turn off the nmea and use easygps to send waypoints, so the serial connection is good. i opened hyper-terminal and set it to receive from the com port and it received data as soon as i turned on the nmea, so the gps is outputting. i am assuming its a problem with streets and trips, not the gps or the computer itself.....any ideas?

Hello, GPS noob here. I'm actually still waiting for my GPS unit to arrive at my door. Is it possible to download more detailed maps from somewhere on the internet and then transfer it to my GPS, or do I just have to buy one of Magellan's MapSend softwares? If it IS possible, what are some sites that have maps for download? My GPS is a Magellan Meridian Color I did a geocache with my friend at Purdue and it was tons of fun...I can't wait to get started here at home...