Familie Tricaching

FYI Zilvervloot - the following log lets you know how to get to the AGUNTUM cache without paying an entry fee - so that point is moot. October 17, 2006 Niemand muss Eintritt bezahlen, wenn er nicht will. Der Eingang auf der gegenüberliegenden Straßenseite ist generell KOSTENLOS (aber natürlich ohne Museum). Roughly translated - you do not need to pay an entry fee, if you don't want to. The entrance on the other side of the street is basically FREE (but naturally you don't get access to the museum). If that had been made clear on the cache page itself, the complaint may not have popped up, except perhaps from cachers who rely on coordinates only...

You could look at the Good Samaritan Law entry in Wikipedia - surprise! in Quebec one has a duty to respond. At the bottom of the page are links to the lists of Canadian provincial and US state Good Samaritan Laws.

Also see Boy Scouts of America Embrace GPS at 2005 National Scout Jamboree: Magellan Handheld GPS Receivers Power Jamboree's First-Ever Geocaching Course. I wonder if my son will geocache there or if he will ignore it and do other fun stuff like rapelling or climbing or sailing or mountain boarding on wheels or...oh gosh all that other outdoor stuff... I wish I could participate... but I must admit, I do enjoy my air conditioned home to dry off in and sleep in in this heat and humidity...

This may be a bit off topic, but... Please read this genealogical website regarding how some other, older, more crowded cultures care for their overcrowded cemetaries. As a first generation American, I had an interesting time when my aunt from Germany came to visit (in the mid 1970's), and was horrified at the sad condition of some gravesites she saw while passing by a cemetary. My mother, knowing the difference between German and American customs (or realities) stopped in the cemetary and asked her to read the markers. My aunt was amazed at the years on the markers. Her comment was something to the effect of, "No wonder, there is no one left alive who knew this person to care to keep it up". The time frame that I remember from my mother's and aunt's comments about the turnaround of precious grave space was on the order of 30 years.... the linked to website says 40 years... This reuse of grave space in Germany must go back to at least the turn of the prior century - I wonder how long? More on topic... With my very limited caching experience, we had a chance to go past an almost abandoned cemetary - the cache was nearby. I think the CITO concept in this situation was very approproriate. Going through it gave me and my family something to think about in terms of imagining the lives of the people who had been buried there. By CITOing we were also able make the area more beautiful (couldn't do much about broken or tilting headstones), thereby respecting both the dead and the people who at one time wanted to honor them.

ds=dear son, dh=dear husband, dd=dear daughter.... etc

An older, though still valid writup of some repellants, including permethrin, can be found in the May 2003 issue of Consumer Reports magazine. (It is available online, though by paid subscription only at www.consumerreports.org - your library should have the print versions for free...)

Dennis, that last post is exactly what you need. Thanks KGBHUI, for translating that instead of "transliterating" it. Familie Tricaching aus Amerika