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Originally posted by Alan2:Have you seen my 11 year old, 90K miles New Yorker lately? OK. I'll take a chance. If I get stuck will you help me with your Ford F-150 Supercab Flareside 4x4 (2000 model)... 5.4L V-8? Sounds hot.
Alan
It is a quite nice looking truck, if I do say so myself. You can see a photo of it on this forum TOPIC.
Oh, and it is the lower vehicle, not the one driven by Ms. Croft... if you couldn't guess!
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Originally posted by makaio:...so, literally, makaio would be pronounced
mah kah ee oh
But as most of us, including myself, do not usually pronounce hawaiin words that way, it usually comes out as
mah ki (long i) oh
Well, at least now I can stop referring to you as "Maa-khow" (I must have been thinking Japanese, though that doesn't make sense either).
My oldest son will be tickled, since his name is also Matthew. You wouldn't happen to know the Hawaiian name for Sean, would you?
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Originally posted by makaio:...so, literally, makaio would be pronounced
mah kah ee oh
But as most of us, including myself, do not usually pronounce hawaiin words that way, it usually comes out as
mah ki (long i) oh
Well, at least now I can stop referring to you as "Maa-khow" (I must have been thinking Japanese, though that doesn't make sense either).
My oldest son will be tickled, since his name is also Matthew. You wouldn't happen to know the Hawaiian name for Sean, would you?
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Originally posted by Zuckerruebensirup:I'm confused as to why you feel this way about the cache you referenced. Is it the WWJD braclet?
I DON'T feel this way about the cache I referenced, which is my point. I went for the hunt, I had a great time and it was a cool cache, especially since it was in a historical graveyard and we went at night. I even traded for the cool bright orange New Testament because I thought my 8-year old (who is choosing to read the Bible on his own) didn't have the N.T. in his Bible.
As I said, it was a hypothetical question to those who are against religious materials in caches. If a religious group or school places a cache, and possibly places items in the cache related to their personal faith, and (hypothetically) YOU are a hard-core geocacher who is against religious items in caches, would you go to the cache just to log it as a find?
NOW do you understand? The only items I feel are bad to place in or trade into a cache are adult-rated items (condoms, porn), alcohol or drugs, cigarettes, explosives and fireworks, obvious trash and (obviously) food items no matter how benign. I am there to cache, enjoy the hunt, trade my items (or not), enjoy the scenery and head home to post the find and write about my and my family's adventures. THAT is what geocaching is all about (to me) and other than the items listed above I don't care what items are in the cache, as long as we have fun caching.
The folks here shouldn't lose sight of the main reason we are engaging in this sport/hobby: To Have Fun, See New Places and To have Fun. Oh, and did I say, Have Fun?
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Originally posted by fractal:Ok.. Hit a few caches tonight with a friend. Placed decals in the following...
-fractal
So what do those of us in the "southern" states have to do (besides make another trip north!) to get decals? I would be willing to pay for some if you were willing to ship them down here (I'd even pay for that).
I just know that I would never make it in time to one of the caches with a decal in it if you post that they are there... *sigh* *sniff*
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Originally posted by fractal:Ok.. Hit a few caches tonight with a friend. Placed decals in the following...
-fractal
So what do those of us in the "southern" states have to do (besides make another trip north!) to get decals? I would be willing to pay for some if you were willing to ship them down here (I'd even pay for that).
I just know that I would never make it in time to one of the caches with a decal in it if you post that they are there... *sigh* *sniff*
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Originally posted by makaio:http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/5505_600.gif
Speaking of not knowing how to pronounce someone's nick... how do you pronounce yours?
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Originally posted by makaio:http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/5505_600.gif
Speaking of not knowing how to pronounce someone's nick... how do you pronounce yours?
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Before you place a cache, how often (if ever) do you check other "geocaching" sites such as NaviCache or Buxley's?
I have seen in some of the other forums where folks placed a cache only to find out that non-Geocaching.com members of the above two sites had placed caches in near proximaty.
I know it isn't a problem for me; I visited Navicache and there isn't one of their caches within 225 miles of me. I didn't spend much time looking at Buxley's, but I assume that it is primarily for you folks north of the border, eh?
If you do visit those sites, do you post your caches there as well?
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Originally posted by Alan2:OK RedwoodRed. You sold me. I'm ready to visit. Question. I don't have a Ford F-150 Supercab Flareside 4x4 (2000 model)... 5.4L V-8. Will my Chrysler New Yorker sedan make it?
Alan
I don't think it matters if it only has six cylinders... the large percentage of 15-year old Ford Tempos, Yugos, Chevy Chevettes and other almost-four cylinder vehicles that are resident here seem to do okay... why shouldn't a New Yorker from New York?
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Originally posted by Alan2:OK RedwoodRed. You sold me. I'm ready to visit. Question. I don't have a Ford F-150 Supercab Flareside 4x4 (2000 model)... 5.4L V-8. Will my Chrysler New Yorker sedan make it?
Alan
I don't think it matters if it only has six cylinders... the large percentage of 15-year old Ford Tempos, Yugos, Chevy Chevettes and other almost-four cylinder vehicles that are resident here seem to do okay... why shouldn't a New Yorker from New York?
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Let me ask a hypothetical question:
You are a hard-core "if they place it we will cache"-type geocacher. You also happen to be down on religious materials placed in caches. You notice a new cache in your vacinity, one like THIS. Are you going to go visit it?
IMHO, if you go there and trade for items that those people have placed, you are a hypocrite. A group of Christians (Christian school kids) got together and placed a cache. Of course they included things like small-sized New Testament Bibles, and maybe a couple of religious tracts/cartoons. Maybe you don't find anything that you wanted to trade for, so you Take Nothing, Left Nothing and logged it as a find.
My point is this: You don't know the political, religious or sexual leanings of anyone who places a cache, nor should it matter unless you are going to apply your personal, theological or political beliefs to geocaching.
If you don't like their viewpoints, and are adamantly against what they believe, you should NOT log it as a find. If you want to set aside your prejudices and misconceptions about mankind in general for a few hours, by all means, go geocaching and log it as a find. But don't go *****ing about it afterwards.
Those who are non-religious are not going to sway the beliefs of those who are pro-religious, so why don't we all just stop posting here? Topics such as this only cause animosity among a (normally) very amicable group. Why keep poking at one another? Stop kicking this obviously dead horse.
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Originally posted by makaio:And check out this history of our good friend
http://math.bu.edu/people/bob/fracman/
Now your secret is out!
Buh-hahaha! I'm sorry, that drawing looks like something I've seen on South Park around Christmas time...
No offense, er, fractal. But, can't you SEE it?
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Originally posted by makaio:And check out this history of our good friend
http://math.bu.edu/people/bob/fracman/
Now your secret is out!
Buh-hahaha! I'm sorry, that drawing looks like something I've seen on South Park around Christmas time...
No offense, er, fractal. But, can't you SEE it?
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Originally posted by fractal:Yeah.. this is nitpicking.. but I should share it
Oh, fractal... I'm sorry! It must have something to do with my proper (ahem! English heritage. Or maybe my overly proper English teacher?
I knew immediately how to properly pronounce oregone's screen name/handle/nick... must have something to do with my exposure to the borderlanders north of my current position.
Will you EVER forgive me?
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Originally posted by fractal:Yeah.. this is nitpicking.. but I should share it
Oh, fractal... I'm sorry! It must have something to do with my proper (ahem! English heritage. Or maybe my overly proper English teacher?
I knew immediately how to properly pronounce oregone's screen name/handle/nick... must have something to do with my exposure to the borderlanders north of my current position.
Will you EVER forgive me?
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Originally posted by Renegade Knight:250,000 people in the area and half the caches in the state within 100 miles(1.1 million in the state)
Maybe that is why they call it "Treasure Valley"?
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Originally posted by Renegade Knight:250,000 people in the area and half the caches in the state within 100 miles(1.1 million in the state)
Maybe that is why they call it "Treasure Valley"?
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Originally posted by carivercpl:Barefoot hit it on the head...i have been all over the world and enjoyed myself no matter where i'm at...but nothing beat coming home to california...but then i guess you can say that about any place you love to live...
Right On! Hey... I grew up in Norco... your backyard. Yep, Norco... where men are men and horses get nervous! Norco, where until a few years ago, there were no sidewalks, because horses outnumbered people. Moved away from that lovely little treasure in 1973. Graduated from La Sierra High (Riverside) class of 1978. Go Eagles!
Yep, California, where most people were your neighbor at least for a time.
The really funny part of California? If all of you folks hate it here so much, why are so many people from other states MOVING HERE!
Earthquakes? Brushfires? Rioting? That is when you weed out the true Californians... the hardcore Cali-folk hang tight.
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Originally posted by carivercpl:Barefoot hit it on the head...i have been all over the world and enjoyed myself no matter where i'm at...but nothing beat coming home to california...but then i guess you can say that about any place you love to live...
Right On! Hey... I grew up in Norco... your backyard. Yep, Norco... where men are men and horses get nervous! Norco, where until a few years ago, there were no sidewalks, because horses outnumbered people. Moved away from that lovely little treasure in 1973. Graduated from La Sierra High (Riverside) class of 1978. Go Eagles!
Yep, California, where most people were your neighbor at least for a time.
The really funny part of California? If all of you folks hate it here so much, why are so many people from other states MOVING HERE!
Earthquakes? Brushfires? Rioting? That is when you weed out the true Californians... the hardcore Cali-folk hang tight.
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Originally posted by carivercpl:"can't we all just get along???"...stop the madness i have been all around this big thing we call mother earth and let me tell ya there is no better place then california...
I'm a dyed-in-the-wool (whatever that is supposed to mean) born-and-bred (sounds like my parents were into sheep farming, huh?) Native Californian.
I hate L.A. (born there, done that, I wouldn't wear the lame baby doll t-shirt they were handing out) except for the constant stream of front row seating concerts everyday or sports events within 60 miles of my house and places to eat or watch a movie 24/7. L.A. Sux. But the minute you leave L.A. and head north, things start to get nicer. Much nicer. I lived for 12 years in Ventura and Santa Barbara areas and that is lovely landscape. How many of you wish you could walk to the corner to buy just picked oranges, avocados and strawberries? For twelve years I didn't pay for produce, it was given to me.
Now I live in the REAL Northern California (if you notice on a map, San Francisco is in the MIDDLE OF THE STATE, HELLO!), 25 miles south of the Oregon Stateline. Right on the coast. In the heart of the Redwood National and State Parks. All you folks drool on the postcards they make from where I live. Ain't no place prettier.
I can drive 15 miles and be in the mountains. It is only two minutes to the beaches. The Smith River is the most pristine free-flowing river in all of North America, and it is in California.
You can keep you EV Rav 4. I'll stick with MY Ford F-150 Supercab Flareside 4x4 (2000 model)... 5.4L V-8 with a Maggie Meridian on the dash... don't you wish you were me?
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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Originally posted by carivercpl:"can't we all just get along???"...stop the madness i have been all around this big thing we call mother earth and let me tell ya there is no better place then california...
I'm a dyed-in-the-wool (whatever that is supposed to mean) born-and-bred (sounds like my parents were into sheep farming, huh?) Native Californian.
I hate L.A. (born there, done that, I wouldn't wear the lame baby doll t-shirt they were handing out) except for the constant stream of front row seating concerts everyday or sports events within 60 miles of my house and places to eat or watch a movie 24/7. L.A. Sux. But the minute you leave L.A. and head north, things start to get nicer. Much nicer. I lived for 12 years in Ventura and Santa Barbara areas and that is lovely landscape. How many of you wish you could walk to the corner to buy just picked oranges, avocados and strawberries? For twelve years I didn't pay for produce, it was given to me.
Now I live in the REAL Northern California (if you notice on a map, San Francisco is in the MIDDLE OF THE STATE, HELLO!), 25 miles south of the Oregon Stateline. Right on the coast. In the heart of the Redwood National and State Parks. All you folks drool on the postcards they make from where I live. Ain't no place prettier.
I can drive 15 miles and be in the mountains. It is only two minutes to the beaches. The Smith River is the most pristine free-flowing river in all of North America, and it is in California.
You can keep you EV Rav 4. I'll stick with MY Ford F-150 Supercab Flareside 4x4 (2000 model)... 5.4L V-8 with a Maggie Meridian on the dash... don't you wish you were me?
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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My S.O. asked me what I wanted for my birthday last year. I thought about it for awhile and then remembered the show I'd seen on Discovery Channel about Geocaching. I hadn't yet found the website, but loved the idea of treasure hunting.
Since I live in the most beautiful area in the world (Northern California Redwood Coast), there are tons of trails here and since we do a lot of four-wheeling and all of those trails start to look the same ("Hey! Haven't we been here before?"), I thought that a GPS would have a great secondary purpose.
So, Steak bought me a Magellan 315 at Fred Meyers in Brookings, Oregon... and the case for it, and the car adapter, and the software, etc. But other than taking it out of the packaging, I hardly ever got to so much as hold it. He hogged it until he'd figured out how to program it, he programmed in our house coords, he drove down to the beach with it to establish sea-level... what a turd! It was pretty obvious to me, that my new gadget got grabbed.
I allowed this to continue, with a bit of grousing, of course, until Valentine's Day '02 came around. We were planning for our Geo-Xpedition to the Contact Cache and I commented, "I know what you can give me for V-Day..." I asked for a new GPS. One of my VERY OWN.
First, we visited the local Wal-Mart and that is where I saw the Meridian for the first time. I had gone thinking that I'd like the Etrex Legend, but I did some research for a day or two, asked questions on this forum and finally decided on the Meridian.
I love it! The mapping capabilities have kept us from being lost on many occasions (a cache done yesterday was one of those - none of the streets had street signs!).
The coolest thing about it? It is MINE. I constantly refer to the 315 as "YOUR GPS" and when I get out of the truck the Meridian goes into my pouch, next to my digital camera and PDA (yep, I'm a Gadget Geek Girl). There is only one thing that I don't like about it: No place to hook a lanyard. I wish I could find a way to hook something up without the use of superglue.
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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I agree with Goldkey. You are much better off buying her a decent PDA (as with Goldkey, Compaq Ipaq is my choice) AND a nice, weather-resistant, shock-resistant GPS.
I have dropped my Meridian, fallen on it, it has been sat on, fallen off of the truck bed-railing, rained on, fallen in a creek, etc. Any one of these incidents would have essentially ruined a $330 to $500 computer (what the PDA is). Computers are not meant to be abused, GPS manufacturers take into consideration that their products are for outdoor use and build them accordingly.
Besides, the attachments or add-ons that make PDAs GPS capable are bulky and awkward. I haven't seen one that fits decently into any type of small hip pack or camera-sized bag.
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
You Californian's are lucky!
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It is a quite nice looking truck, if I do say so myself. You can see a photo of it on this forum TOPIC.
Oh, and it is the lower vehicle, not the one driven by Ms. Croft... if you couldn't guess!
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Lori aka: RedwoodRed
KF6VFI
"I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations."
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