The GeoGadgets Team

Some folks here seem to think that those who go out and use their imaginations and search capabilities in order to log locationless caches are sub-cachers, regardless of the number of other caches they have logged, of ANY type. How is it that a multi-cache is less of a cache than a traditional cache? Last year we hunted a multi that required puzzle-solving skills, math skills and a twisted imagination. It had six physical stages. How can it be LESS than a traditional drive-up, log it, drive-off geocache? A micro, or offset cache shouldn't be separated because a few folks don't like and chose not to do them. The micro that is rated a 4/4 for difficulty that I log should make it cooler than that 1/1 traditional that you logged. For that matter, if you want to separate all the caches out, why not give extra credit for extra difficult caches? fractal's Contact Cache was a 5 for difficulty because of the puzzle. Should I get more points for completing it WITHOUT THE CHEAT than the person who finished it using fractal's hints? Should the 4-rated terrain cache we completed the other day be worth more in points than that weak-assed micro that someone else logged? The answer to all of this is: HELL NO! WTF are you people thinking when you try to dictate to others what constitutes a cache worth getting credit for? The day you chose for me what is an acceptible cache for me to log, brother you'd better be on the acceptance committee when these caches are submitted for approval. Otherwise, STFU! Only those who feel that their precious cache counts are threatened by those doing "lesser" caches are truly worried about this. Those of us who are having more fun just getting out there and geocaching could give a rat's *** less. ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by Alan2:Ok Ok Ok. Don't get snippy. So now I got one for you. who really is Redwood Red? Well, I don't think that I resemble any movie star or famous person. You can see a photo of what I resemble HERE, but that is an older photo. I still look something like that, just, well, older. As you can see, I come by the moniker RED honestly and if you look close enough, you might see the freckles and eyebrows that are tell-tales signs that I'm a true redhead. As for the REDWOOD part... well, I live in the Redwoods of Northern California. I have always thought that it was a fitting handle/nickname for myself. It beats the CB radio handle that I carried around for 20 years: Queen Of Hearts. Off with his head! ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by rathkopf:I thought those $2 coins were called MOONIES. Because they have the Queen on the front, and her bear behind. Oh Man! Now THAT is FUNNY! ROFLMAO! ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by Alan2:I'm the guy who didn't know who this guy Wheaton is. Now Kevin Bacon I know. Wasn't he one of the Men in Black? You're kidding, right? The "MIB's" are: Tommy Lee Jones and Will (Prince of Bel Air) Smith. Kevin Bacon was "Hollow Man", among other things. Kevin is also famous for - though I don't believe he invented it - Six Degrees of Separation. The theory being that every actor in the U.S. is within six degrees of separation from having appeared in a movie with Kevin Bacon. He is starring in a weak TV commercial about Visa Checkcards that uses this theory as the commercial's premise. At one time, there was actually a popular website called www.sixdegrees.com. I got bored with it pretty fast. It reminded me too much of MCI's Friends and Family sign up program. Is that enough banal trivia for you? ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by geospotter:If anyone would like some of their items placed in caches in New England, just email me. If anyone from the Right Coast (or anywhere else at distance) would like cache items begun on a journey from the West Side, you can email me and I'll be happy to move them along. After all, we have never hesitated to do distant caches. Which reminds me... I still need to send some LotR CD's to Mike Chim... yikes! And as far as Booty goes? Even being female, I too was subject to a twisted sense of curiousity when I opened this thread... no one is ammune! Remember that much loved '70's song: "Shake, shake, shake! Shake, shake, shake! Shake your booty! Shake your booty!" ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by Eric O'Connor:Believe me, we talk about you all the time. And YOU get talked about quite a bit here, as well... and are missed. It has been my assumption for some time that Choberiba is somebody famous... or he'd post a picture of what he REALLY looks like... instead of teasing us with pictures of his overly large GPS! I'm guessing that he is John Travolta... no, then he'd be spouting that L. Ron Hubbard stuff... How about Robin Williams? No, he's funny, but not THAT funny... Maybe Jerry Rice or Joe Montana... the area he lives in is right... Well, Chobe? Am I even close? ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by oregone:I've been struggling to come up with a signature item that both reflects my personality and doesn't offend the PMRC, the PTA, and PETA. The last thing i want to do is piss off Tipper Gore, Barbara Eden, and Belinda Carlisle. Oh man! Why not? I live to offend that trio! It must have something to do with their helmet hair... ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by oregone:I've been struggling to come up with a signature item that both reflects my personality and doesn't offend the PMRC, the PTA, and PETA. The last thing i want to do is piss off Tipper Gore, Barbara Eden, and Belinda Carlisle. Oh man! Why not? I live to offend that trio! It must have something to do with their helmet hair... ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

I want one! It is a great idea: a signature item in a small, waterproof container, with fish hooks (you could put masking tape or a small piece of cork over the barb), fishing line, an emergency/space blanket, waterproof matches or a flint/striker, snake bite or bug bite kit, small Avon-style packets of sunscreen, a tiny pocket knife (Wal-Mart: 88 cents) and maybe some water purification tablets. Or a similar container with first-aid items in it. Small packs of neosporin, band-aids, a tourniquet (sp?)... etc. All with a small laminated card inside with first-aid guidelines and your name, logo and email address. Do you mind if I make a few of those myself? Pretty cool idea. If someone went out for a tough cache, 3 or higher on terrain, and got lost going back to their car, or caught out in someway, or fell and broke their leg and needed to wait for help, a kit like that would really come in handy. Assuming that they were foolish enough not to have some of those things with them in the first place. As for matches being dangerous: So would a coin be in a cache if you aren't supervising your small kids. As was mentioned, so are plastic bags, so are the plastic bags on McKid's toys, for that matter! They come with warnings. Most plastic shopping bags have small oval parts of the bag that come off when the bag is separated from the other bags. Kids get those and can choke. Hell, I've seen kids with noses so full of mucus that it is a wonder they don't suffocate! I can put Kleenex in my caches but it won't make the parents teach their kids the proper way to use them! If you have kids, do you have matches at home? Lighters? If you think that by putting them out of reach of your kids you've made them immune to their own curiosity, you are in for a big surprise. Just as with guns, teaching children what is safe, what is acceptable and what is bad and will get them hurt or killed is essential in helping them to grow up in an adult world. My kids are more likely to get hit by an idiot while playing on the sidewalk in front of my house than to burn themselves with the waterproof matches I place in geocaches. We found a 4/4 cache the other day that had been hidden for a year and never found. It had a small bottle of Sangria wine in it. Well-fermented wine now. We traded for it. We won't drink it - it will get poured down the drain, or used as marinade , but I didn't want to listen to anyone else WINE about it later. Water would have been more appropriate considering the cache, but it wasn't about the contents, really. As for chain-gang road crews finding your cache... hell, if they can make weapons out of toilet paper rolls, what makes you think that that happy meal toy you left is any less dangerous in a hardened criminals hands? And what the hell is a geocache doing right next to the highway, anyway? It is more likely to be found and plundered by hitchhikers, and we all know how dangerous THEY can be! Use common sense, people. I always put items in for trade that would be helpful or useful to someone hiking, camping or fishing. My pack is filled with fish hook removers, lures, emergency blankets, waterproof matches, rain ponchos, slow-burning candles and batteries (which will also explode if overheated, right?). If others are allowing their children to rifle through caches unsupervised, then it is they who are a problem and dangerous, not the folks that placed the useful articles. ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

I want one! It is a great idea: a signature item in a small, waterproof container, with fish hooks (you could put masking tape or a small piece of cork over the barb), fishing line, an emergency/space blanket, waterproof matches or a flint/striker, snake bite or bug bite kit, small Avon-style packets of sunscreen, a tiny pocket knife (Wal-Mart: 88 cents) and maybe some water purification tablets. Or a similar container with first-aid items in it. Small packs of neosporin, band-aids, a tourniquet (sp?)... etc. All with a small laminated card inside with first-aid guidelines and your name, logo and email address. Do you mind if I make a few of those myself? Pretty cool idea. If someone went out for a tough cache, 3 or higher on terrain, and got lost going back to their car, or caught out in someway, or fell and broke their leg and needed to wait for help, a kit like that would really come in handy. Assuming that they were foolish enough not to have some of those things with them in the first place. As for matches being dangerous: So would a coin be in a cache if you aren't supervising your small kids. As was mentioned, so are plastic bags, so are the plastic bags on McKid's toys, for that matter! They come with warnings. Most plastic shopping bags have small oval parts of the bag that come off when the bag is separated from the other bags. Kids get those and can choke. Hell, I've seen kids with noses so full of mucus that it is a wonder they don't suffocate! I can put Kleenex in my caches but it won't make the parents teach their kids the proper way to use them! If you have kids, do you have matches at home? Lighters? If you think that by putting them out of reach of your kids you've made them immune to their own curiosity, you are in for a big surprise. Just as with guns, teaching children what is safe, what is acceptable and what is bad and will get them hurt or killed is essential in helping them to grow up in an adult world. My kids are more likely to get hit by an idiot while playing on the sidewalk in front of my house than to burn themselves with the waterproof matches I place in geocaches. We found a 4/4 cache the other day that had been hidden for a year and never found. It had a small bottle of Sangria wine in it. Well-fermented wine now. We traded for it. We won't drink it - it will get poured down the drain, or used as marinade , but I didn't want to listen to anyone else WINE about it later. Water would have been more appropriate considering the cache, but it wasn't about the contents, really. As for chain-gang road crews finding your cache... hell, if they can make weapons out of toilet paper rolls, what makes you think that that happy meal toy you left is any less dangerous in a hardened criminals hands? And what the hell is a geocache doing right next to the highway, anyway? It is more likely to be found and plundered by hitchhikers, and we all know how dangerous THEY can be! Use common sense, people. I always put items in for trade that would be helpful or useful to someone hiking, camping or fishing. My pack is filled with fish hook removers, lures, emergency blankets, waterproof matches, rain ponchos, slow-burning candles and batteries (which will also explode if overheated, right?). If others are allowing their children to rifle through caches unsupervised, then it is they who are a problem and dangerous, not the folks that placed the useful articles. ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by Peanuthead:Upon finding the empty cache, the first finder called me a Cheezeball and the second wrote, "Of course, the road got smoother and next thing you know, we were at the cache! No problem finding it, but what happened to the contents? What? A keychain and two pens? After all of that fighting?" Peanuthead, while reading this thread I was thinking of your cache! Not in a bad way, really . If you had read the rest of my post, I comment on the difficulty of the road/trail/deer track on the way to the cache, the loud "conflict" that occured between the driver and navigator (me), and all of that, combined with the fact that in your cache description there was no mention of contents, made for a frustrating find with two small kids chasing Mom and Dad to the final cache site. I ask everyone reading this in all honesty to search deep and ask yourself, "If you go for a multi-cache, do you expect to find anything in the final container when you get to it?" There are those out there who will adamantly state repeatedly that they never trade, don't care what the contents are and just T/N, L/N and logged their find in the book. When we take our kids along, we try and take them to caches were the end result is finding the "treasure". To a 5 and 8 year old, it was a bit disappointing. That didn't keep us from trading up, however. IMHO, if you had said that there was initially nothing in the cache, we would have been prepared and not disappointed at all. quote:Now for my opinion on the subject: The baubles in the caches are mostly about the kids. Little Johnny and Jane like finding Hot Wheels and a Pez dispenser, and we like taking little Johnny and Jane along, so it's all good. Okay, and that enforces my point, I think. quote:You can draw your own conclusions about my little experiment. Also, if you read my log at your CACHE, you will note that I looked forward to this cache after finding THIS ONE, which was so packed full of goodies that we had to limit what we put in. So, I enjoyed both of your caches, and will look forward to visiting the Valley again to do more. Hopefully I can encourage you and other Valley cachers to come to the coast to log some of ours. Not that you need to... you get three new caches to find every other day... sheesh! I am performing a few experiments in regard to cache contents myself. My BookCrossing Cache is filled with nothing but sci-fi and fantasy paperback books, and I specify exactly what is in it and what folks can use to trade. It is themed. It makes sense to get specific. It doesn't mean that everyone has to trade brand-new Tom Clancy PB's or sci-fi/fantasy... I would encourage folks to put in kid-oriented paperbacks, as long as they log them on the BookCrossing website first. The same will be true of my Ultimate Comics cache when it is released: Only comic books and comics-related items should be traded. I understand that not everyone is going to "follow the rules" I've specified for these caches, but I do hope that people will take the time, read the descriptions and bring appropriate trade materials for each cache. I have accumulated these brand-new comics and action figures over the past six months, but I have spent over $60 for all of them. That is one reason why I'll be doing something that I thought I'd never do: Make it an MOC for the first few months to see how it works. If somebody lets there kid put a not-too-abused Jughead comic in place of a new Spiderman... I will not be at all upset. It stays within the theme. It's late... I'm rambling again... ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by Peanuthead:Upon finding the empty cache, the first finder called me a Cheezeball and the second wrote, "Of course, the road got smoother and next thing you know, we were at the cache! No problem finding it, but what happened to the contents? What? A keychain and two pens? After all of that fighting?" Peanuthead, while reading this thread I was thinking of your cache! Not in a bad way, really . If you had read the rest of my post, I comment on the difficulty of the road/trail/deer track on the way to the cache, the loud "conflict" that occured between the driver and navigator (me), and all of that, combined with the fact that in your cache description there was no mention of contents, made for a frustrating find with two small kids chasing Mom and Dad to the final cache site. I ask everyone reading this in all honesty to search deep and ask yourself, "If you go for a multi-cache, do you expect to find anything in the final container when you get to it?" There are those out there who will adamantly state repeatedly that they never trade, don't care what the contents are and just T/N, L/N and logged their find in the book. When we take our kids along, we try and take them to caches were the end result is finding the "treasure". To a 5 and 8 year old, it was a bit disappointing. That didn't keep us from trading up, however. IMHO, if you had said that there was initially nothing in the cache, we would have been prepared and not disappointed at all. quote:Now for my opinion on the subject: The baubles in the caches are mostly about the kids. Little Johnny and Jane like finding Hot Wheels and a Pez dispenser, and we like taking little Johnny and Jane along, so it's all good. Okay, and that enforces my point, I think. quote:You can draw your own conclusions about my little experiment. Also, if you read my log at your CACHE, you will note that I looked forward to this cache after finding THIS ONE, which was so packed full of goodies that we had to limit what we put in. So, I enjoyed both of your caches, and will look forward to visiting the Valley again to do more. Hopefully I can encourage you and other Valley cachers to come to the coast to log some of ours. Not that you need to... you get three new caches to find every other day... sheesh! I am performing a few experiments in regard to cache contents myself. My BookCrossing Cache is filled with nothing but sci-fi and fantasy paperback books, and I specify exactly what is in it and what folks can use to trade. It is themed. It makes sense to get specific. It doesn't mean that everyone has to trade brand-new Tom Clancy PB's or sci-fi/fantasy... I would encourage folks to put in kid-oriented paperbacks, as long as they log them on the BookCrossing website first. The same will be true of my Ultimate Comics cache when it is released: Only comic books and comics-related items should be traded. I understand that not everyone is going to "follow the rules" I've specified for these caches, but I do hope that people will take the time, read the descriptions and bring appropriate trade materials for each cache. I have accumulated these brand-new comics and action figures over the past six months, but I have spent over $60 for all of them. That is one reason why I'll be doing something that I thought I'd never do: Make it an MOC for the first few months to see how it works. If somebody lets there kid put a not-too-abused Jughead comic in place of a new Spiderman... I will not be at all upset. It stays within the theme. It's late... I'm rambling again... ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

I am not sure if this has been discussed before. I checked the search and didn't find anything... We have had a CACHE on our radar that would have turned a year old on May 10th without being found if we had not gone after it. As a crow flies, it was under 50 miles from our home. To get to it, however, took a 400 mile round-trip. There is another dirt mountain road that might have made it closer, but it was (and usually is) closed due to snow. Has anyone else made such a long trek for such a close cache? ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

I have to add this: Though the hider, Rocketman, had never found or hidden a cache before, this was very well done. Please have a look at the photos we took. The only thing at issue would have been that the bag surrounding the cache was filled with water, because of the way it was tied. Water seeped into the top of bag and down through the knot. Steak tied a loop in the top of the bag to try and keep it from happening again. Other than that it was a great cache in great shape for having been there un-found for 365 days! I have this to say too... If none of you has ever met Steak, he is a big guy. 31 years old, overweight with a prominant belly (which I love, BTW!)... and he hiked down that bugger and back up and then drove to dinner in Yreka and on to Medford. IMHO, He Is The MAN! So you folks that are slim, trim and in good shape? There is no excuse ... get out there and nab that cache! ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by The Artful Dodger:I'm sure there's a surgical solution to that flag growing out of his head. Poor guy! At least it isnt a propellor ! Maybe it is just me, but I have always thought that A.D. looks a lot like Kevin Costner, what with those shades and all. Is there something you want to tell us, Dodger? Me, I've only masquerading as RedwoodRed. In real life, I'm Jessica Rabbit. ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by The Artful Dodger:I'm sure there's a surgical solution to that flag growing out of his head. Poor guy! At least it isnt a propellor ! Maybe it is just me, but I have always thought that A.D. looks a lot like Kevin Costner, what with those shades and all. Is there something you want to tell us, Dodger? Me, I've only masquerading as RedwoodRed. In real life, I'm Jessica Rabbit. ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by Zuckerruebensirup:Yes, I'd take them out of the boxes. If you don't, chances are someone else will anyway. I've seen people post photos of their dog chewing on a travel bug, with a comment saying, "Don't worry, he was gentle." I imagine that over time, all of our travel bugs will start showing some wear and tear, just through the process of changing hands. I have already taken Spiderman out of his container... he looked like too much fun! Yes, I'm just a big kid or I probably wouldn't collect comics and action figures! Each of my sons got to spend 15 minutes with the WebSlinger prior to putting him in a safe spot on my desk until it is time to pack the cache. Of course, my youngest decided that it would be "mean" to make him a TB! ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by Zuckerruebensirup:Yes, I'd take them out of the boxes. If you don't, chances are someone else will anyway. I've seen people post photos of their dog chewing on a travel bug, with a comment saying, "Don't worry, he was gentle." I imagine that over time, all of our travel bugs will start showing some wear and tear, just through the process of changing hands. I have already taken Spiderman out of his container... he looked like too much fun! Yes, I'm just a big kid or I probably wouldn't collect comics and action figures! Each of my sons got to spend 15 minutes with the WebSlinger prior to putting him in a safe spot on my desk until it is time to pack the cache. Of course, my youngest decided that it would be "mean" to make him a TB! ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by Markwell:heheheh. I presume you know about the Challenge of the SuperFriends. Silly man... we went through this discussion when I originally brought up the whole idea of my comics cache in this thread. I have also been reading about how many of the SuperFriends don't seem to be getting around like they should, in the thread about TB's going MIA. Keep us up on this. Weird thing... a cache that I had already visited was recently home to Aquaman, I believe. I was real sorry I missed him... *sigh* I hope some of the SuperFriends make it this direction. I'm sure that they would like the atmosphere of Red's Ultimate Comics Cache, when it is placed (just a few more days!). ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by GatoRx:How did this help drug research you ask? I don't know about drug researchers, but they did the rest of the world a favor... except now those non-Parkinson meth-maggots are going to get stupid checks from Social Security... quote:Until this point, researchers didn't have a good way to produce Parkinson's in lab animals so they could test anti-Parkinson's drugs. Now, instead of lab rats they have meth-maggots and crank-weasels! Cool, they eat less than the rats. Can you tell I'm anti-drug? One "person" a few doors down from me, who I wouldn't know at all if she didn't have a son the same approx. age as mine, is obviously a methamphetamine user. The son would come over to play, and all of a sudden three or four cars would show up in her driveway. Then our phone would ring... "Can you make sure (son's name) doesn't come home before he calls here first?" Now, why can't the kid come home whenever he wants? What is she worried he'll catch her doing? When (son's name) wanted to go home, I'd have him call and sure enough, all of the cars would leave! They were just evicted, though I don't know what for. The kid came over to play "for the last time". She had the nerve to say, "Can I drop (son's name) off here next time I'm in town?" Uh, yeah sure... just as long as you don't mind my calling CPS! Maggot... I feel sorry for the poor kid. ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

...arguement, IMHO. I understand if they show up on one's radar when checking for new caches in one's area. The super-simple ones I agree are pretty bad. What is worse is: have you noticed how many folks who place/generate locationless caches also log them as finds for themselves? That is even more ridiculous... place a cache so you can log it. Or folks who log more than one time for that same cache ("...oh, and look, we found ANOTHER mural!"). Other than the mural cache, I find it amusing that even on these simpler caches, many people still can't read the rules or follow instructions. There are many redeeming qualities for the better locationless caches, though (IMHO). Some are for historical areas/markers that would be impossible to place any kind of cache, except maybe a virtual, and most of those you can look up on the internet to get the answers for and post it as a find. Those are still great places to get others to go. I have always found it interesting to learn that folks that have lived in an area for all or most of their lives know very little about that area's history. No, Geocaching isn't History 101, but part of GCing is bringing folks to places they wouldn't normally go - so these apply. Another thing I like about loctionless caches is that I can learn more about the areas in which other geocachers live and THEIR history by reading the logs. I love reading the site logs, this is no different. I especially enjoy looking at the pictures. It is like virtual traveling for me. You might find that weak, and I suppose it makes me a voyeur... so be it. And finally, while looking over the locationless caches, I discovered quite a few interesting points about my own area that I didn't know... like that a little town such as where I live has TWO SuperFund clean-up sites! Yikes! One very close to my home. The real estate agent never told me about THAT! Again it should be said, if you don't like them, don't do them. Don't be a Nazi and say that they don't meet YOUR criteria for a GC and so they don't belong. Those who complain habitually don't lend any credence to their perspective. I hate it when people drive through my beautiful area and stop for lunch and during that time flood the local list with drive-up, drive-off virtuals that take little or no ability or imagination other than to plug in coordinates. If you get rid of locationless, ditch virtuals and I don't think that, with the NFS and State and National Parks in prime caching areas, that that will happen anytime soon. All caches have some validity. If they get too lame, that decision needs to be made in the approval stage. ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by Markwell: However, I have had many first timers log my travellers indicating how excited they are - and they take the time to carefully read and understand the instructions. Also, if they have questions, they ask. These neocachers are the best kind - knowing that they may have to study up a little and performing the correct way the first time. On our very first cache outing we grabbed a TB. Getting the TB was one of my main objectives in picking that cache. We had checked out the website for days before actually "heading out", and I took it upon myself to learn about TB's and the proper way to handle them. Our very first cache placement was designed completely around that travel bug and was, in fact, named for him. Now, I just wish he'd move. I just wish someone would visit that cache! It isn't all that remote compared to some others in the area. But it doesn't matter. The TB isn't even in it. It has been sitting in someone's house since November ( ). He's not my TB, but I'd sure like to see him move, or the person who has him to put him out somewhere even if it isn't the place he'd originally planned on taking him, just so he could meet his agenda. IMHO, people shouldn't keep a TB longer than 2 weeks. We took some up to the Contact Cache, so they moved far when we moved them. I also found a traveler in a cache (Agent Scully) and took her to the Contact Cache (seemed right up her alley!), but when I attempted to email the owner as requested in her FBI Report Book the email has come back as non-deliverable. The last person to have her had the same problem. I have no idea where Scully is, how to keep track of her or who her original owner was. Sad. I'm happy to see the idea for a laminated card attached to the bug with the tag. Seems like it would inspire more activity. ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by Markwell: However, I have had many first timers log my travellers indicating how excited they are - and they take the time to carefully read and understand the instructions. Also, if they have questions, they ask. These neocachers are the best kind - knowing that they may have to study up a little and performing the correct way the first time. On our very first cache outing we grabbed a TB. Getting the TB was one of my main objectives in picking that cache. We had checked out the website for days before actually "heading out", and I took it upon myself to learn about TB's and the proper way to handle them. Our very first cache placement was designed completely around that travel bug and was, in fact, named for him. Now, I just wish he'd move. I just wish someone would visit that cache! It isn't all that remote compared to some others in the area. But it doesn't matter. The TB isn't even in it. It has been sitting in someone's house since November ( ). He's not my TB, but I'd sure like to see him move, or the person who has him to put him out somewhere even if it isn't the place he'd originally planned on taking him, just so he could meet his agenda. IMHO, people shouldn't keep a TB longer than 2 weeks. We took some up to the Contact Cache, so they moved far when we moved them. I also found a traveler in a cache (Agent Scully) and took her to the Contact Cache (seemed right up her alley!), but when I attempted to email the owner as requested in her FBI Report Book the email has come back as non-deliverable. The last person to have her had the same problem. I have no idea where Scully is, how to keep track of her or who her original owner was. Sad. I'm happy to see the idea for a laminated card attached to the bug with the tag. Seems like it would inspire more activity. ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by tatoeba: The perfect timing to release a Spiderman TB if you have one!! How did you guess!? Yep, one of them is a new action figure designed for the new movie (we went to see it today, but the theater was full! So, we took the boys to see Ice Age... what a funny movie!), one that has this spinning trash-can prop with it. Should I send the prop, too? The other two are Witchblade action figures to commemorate the new season of Witchblade the series on TBS coming in June: A Kenneth Iron Gold Neogenesis and a Scarlet Medieval Witchblade (both sculpted by Clayton Moore). I haven't completely worked out their goals, yet. I thought of sending Spiderman to New York City, to Ground Zero, but isn't everybody doing that? NYC is where the movie and comics took place. Witchblade takes place in New York, too, but Sara Pezzini gets around a bit more. Any suggestions will be thrown into the mix and considered for the final release... Thanks! ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by tatoeba: The perfect timing to release a Spiderman TB if you have one!! How did you guess!? Yep, one of them is a new action figure designed for the new movie (we went to see it today, but the theater was full! So, we took the boys to see Ice Age... what a funny movie!), one that has this spinning trash-can prop with it. Should I send the prop, too? The other two are Witchblade action figures to commemorate the new season of Witchblade the series on TBS coming in June: A Kenneth Iron Gold Neogenesis and a Scarlet Medieval Witchblade (both sculpted by Clayton Moore). I haven't completely worked out their goals, yet. I thought of sending Spiderman to New York City, to Ground Zero, but isn't everybody doing that? NYC is where the movie and comics took place. Witchblade takes place in New York, too, but Sara Pezzini gets around a bit more. Any suggestions will be thrown into the mix and considered for the final release... Thanks! ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite