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Nerves

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  1. I had the opportunity to see one of the new RI Quahog coins and it's really unique! Very much the right coin for the smallest state. Perfect for dropping in micro caches or regular sized caches for that matter. Very cool!
  2. I broke my leg while geocaching out in the Rhode Island woods. Seemed like it took forever for the cop on duty and the EMTs to find me. As I later learned, my cell phone with GPS locates you by the closest tower which was in Massachusetts. The police, fire and rescue departments in that particular area don't have GPS units so giving them coordinates was useless. An LEO friend in Texas tells me they don't have GPS units in his department. In fact, while visiting there, a cacher followed my finds two days later and discovered a body at one cache site. OnStar knew where he was, the cops didn't.
  3. Ah, Lyme Disease. The Great Imitator. Syphilis used to be The Great Imitator but now it's Lyme Disesase. It can imitate any other disease presentation. Flu-like symptoms? Could be Lyme. Cognitive problems? Might be Lyme. Homicidal rage or suicidal depression? Yep, possibly Lyme. Aches and pains in one or many joints? Oh yeah, Lyme again. And the list goes on... Unfortunately, lots of people and websites give out alot of wrong information about the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme Diseae. Many expert clinicians disagree with the CDC information. There are two opposing groups of expert Lyme clinicians and they disagree on the diagnosis and treatment. There are lots of false positive and negative lab results. You not only need a Lyme titer but a Western Blot and that's not always perfect. It's an evil disease and the spirochete likes to hide in your body. It's especially bad when it gets into your central nervous system and you can't remember your name or walk without falling. PREVENTION is the key. (edited for spelling errors...I must be tired...time for beddy bye)
  4. When I was about 12 years old we lived in Bangladesh and at the time there was a long running war between the Hindus of India and the Muslims of Bangladesh. There was gunfire and bombs going off all the time. Then one day I saw a swastika someone painted on a building that I passed on the way to school. The next day the building was bombed. I thought, 'cripes, now we have the Nazis in this war too??' From that moment on I didn't sleep for about six months. I figured it was a good thing Mom had me take a rifle markmanship course at age 10 because I was sure there were going to be boot stompin' Nazis with big guns coming through my bedroom door at night never mind the enraged Muslims and Hindus. One day someone told me that particlar swastika was a Hindu symbol and 'see, it's pointing to the left, not the right like the Nazis' swastika'. Just goes to show how much emotion a symbol can evoke.
  5. I looked quickly at where you're from and did a double take. SEMN??! That's about as bad as SNEG MA (Southern New England Geocachers, Massachusetts) (I know, I know...off topic...)
  6. It's not the swag but the message that someone is trying to deliver that really rots my socks.
  7. A geocacher recently visited one of my Earthcaches where you had to answer questions related to the geology of the area. This cacher decided that he did not agree with any of the geological theories about the area and that it wasn't as old as proven by radiometric and other testing. It was really God who formed the area 6,000 years ago but "made it look older" - 4.5 million years old! I mean really...why even go for the cache? What was the point for interjecting his religious beliefs? I wanted to ask this cacher: Why on earth would God do that? Didn't (s)he have more important things to do?
  8. Oh, caching's for me alright. Organized religion and proselytizing isn't.
  9. I absolutely abhor proselytizing in any form. That probably emanates from spending my formative years in Asia and seeing some of the ugly methods various churches used to convert the indigenous people and the lack of respect some missionaries had for the local religions. Now before any of you reply about the all the good the Christian churches did in Asia don't base that solely upon what you read. If you didn't see it firsthand then you probably don't know all the devious methods they used. So, I get testy with religion crossing over into geocaching.
  10. In the old days they would get rid of the bodies by sinking them in the water with chains or cement shoes. I guess today murders are just getting lazy, they must have watched to much television and played to many video games when they were kids. \ It's kind of odd but Ive noticed the murderers out here tend to dump the bodies in fairly wooded areas. We'll hear about bodies found dumped near trails or off dirt roads. Most of those bodies are women it seems. Plenty of suicides out in the woods too. The rest areas seem reserved for men who want to cavort in the woods together but not kill each other. But then, that's a different topic... The cement blocks in the bay method is still popular I'm sure but does take more effort...lug the body into the car, then into the boat, head out into the bay and dump the body overboard. All of this without being seen. I'm guessing they have to be alot more organized about planning.
  11. I don't live there and Del Rio is not a large city - population is about 35,000. What I think is that there are alot more crimes near geocaches than we know about. We just don't hear about all of them. We've had a few bodies dumped near cache sites here in Rhode Island. Some of those murders become public information and some don't. (That's pretty creepy about the guillotine. I think I'd need a change of pants and some strong medication if I came across that.)
  12. I often have an apprehensive feeling that I’m going to come across a dead person or crime scene while out geocaching. Well, it ALMOST happened. I happened to be caching in Texas with a Del Rio police officer. I dropped a TB and coin in a cache located on a dirt road. It wasn’t way out of town and certainly not an isolated area but the cacher who picked them up on January 26th stumbled across a badly beaten man on the dirt road. He was a murder victim. Little did I know when my friend mentioned investigating a murder scene this weekend that it would be right near the cache we had found a few days earlier! News story In addition, another (very cool) cache I found just over the border in Mexico had also been the sight of a murder scene. Apparently, the murder victim was laid right at the base of the Tlaloc monument. I wouldn’t have known any of this if my friend wasn't a police officer. Makes me think there might be a lot more crimes near geocaches that we just don’t know about.
  13. Visited some nice areas and found some great caches. I really liked Tlaloc (got Mexico on my map with that one) and the Sonora Caverns cache. Both are worth visiting and finding. So, we can close this discussion as I'm back home for now till the next trip.
  14. I wish I could do this cache but I won't be anywhere near the area. Thanks for the suggestion though!
  15. I thought about going after this TB but it looks like someone picked it up and is mailing it to the owner for safekeeping.
  16. Looks interesting - thanks! Anyone else have some suggestions?
  17. Which caches are *must finds*? I'll be driving from San Antonio to Del Rio. How about caches around the Del Rio area and possibly Langtry? I'll be visiting Texas on a brief, whirlwind trip but will of course (! ) be doing a few caches do I'd really like to hear which ones you think I ought to do. Thanks!
  18. Well, it's probably too late now for a gold but I'll add my story anyway. Here's the pic and the link for the log: The Mangled Leg Incident Two surgeries later: And, Scobey...I feel for you...I'm just now recovering after 21 months much of it spent in a wheelchair. Isn't life grand? Not to worry though - you'll get better eventually.
  19. I'll be in Denver, RMNP, Colorado Springs but traveling with non geocaching friends so I have to limit my choices somewhat. Any other ideas for those areas?
  20. Although it's not a hike this may be the one since I'll be at this spot on the appropriate day for #1000. Thanks!
  21. Thanks! Looks good. I've added this to my list.
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