globalgirl

Got my 2 little laptop honeys today (black nickel & blue LE) - thanks! But I do have a couple few questions: Firstly, I've now waded through most every blessed page of this thread (yup all 13 of 'em), and for the life of me, I can find no reference whatsoever to just how many of each of these coins were produced (and will more of any be produced in the future?) Nor nothing of the number of coins minted on the reservation website. Just how many of each, please? Early on someone suggested that if/when sales hit the magic (1000?) so the coins could have a custom 2-letter prefix code - that "PC" would seem an excellent notion. Yet, I found an Anthus post that we'd reached that sales level, but no mention of what the prefix would be. Now I see... it's "AN". Question is - what's that mean? why AN? Why not PC??? (or leastwise "LT" - LapTop?) Also, on all the sample pics, the laptops all had "STACY" or "JOHN" in the center, so... naturally I thought my geonic would be on the cover like that. Instead it's the "AN..." tracking number (which I expected to be on the bottom of the laptop). Just never saw nothing on any of this in the thread. And finally... So inside each of my honeys, there's a wee Model# - each of them different. If (presumably) these are the consecutive numbers - how were they assigned to the various orders? Don't get me wrong, I love these honeys and major kudos to Stacy for designing them. I'm just surprised none of these questions have been asked before.

Goodness - fully 15 days older than Washington State's oldest (Mountain Marsh GC8) (and we're - here in Seattle - but a couple hours from the Original Stash!) Very impressive - thanks for the tip. And the good news is - it's only 31 miles south of my Bro's place in Spring Grove! Any others - ingenious cammoes? clever containers? exceptional multis? outstanding (but not masochistic) puzzles?

I'm making a verrrrry quick run to visit family in northern Illinois (Spring Grove/McHenry vicinity) and - am flying into Milwaukee airport this Saturday (6/16) and out just 2 days later on the afternoon of Monday (6/18). So... I'll have just a few hours enroute from/to the airport (mainly along route 94?) to grab a few boxes. Just wondering if anybody can advise of any "NOT TO BE MISSED!" caches along the way. I'll likely only have time to do at most a dozen in all, or... if there's just 1 or 2 caches that are SPECTACULAR that I might reach within an hour or so of the airport - that'd be great. I realize I'm asking for the moon here, but if any of you kindly midwest folks have any tips on truly excellent caches in the area - I'd much appreciate a heads-up. Thanks! P.S. I've already done the IL A.P.E. - luckily just last year before it was archived!

Goodness, how kewl is that! Shoot, I was practically drooling on my own laptop keys watching it!

Sorry to be a bother, but... I'm confused. I haven't been tracking this thread but just reviewed the past few pages and... Alls I know is that I have a PAID PayPal invoice to Stacy Ash for a set of blk w/ LE blue, dated April 30th. Question is... So is all in order and I'm just still waiting for the coins to be sent here to Seattle? No rush here, but just wanted to double-check that all is in order...

I only have the initial bonus feat so far (my picture), but this is also the way I understand it. A bonus is a bonus, thus the TB ID instead of the cache ID. Yes indeed, the rules for the Bonus Feats have long been confusing to many. Tough enough for we race coin owners who have pored through all the game rules and who regularly wade through the ATWI80C thread(s) here in the forums to try to piece together the rule intent for Bonus Feats. But even tougher to try to explain it to those kindly cachers who are trying to help my Xanadu along clear across the globe. I love the idea of having a fresh new bonus feat unveiled each month, but I do think the rules for such should be spelled out in the "Game Rules" at cachinggames.com once and for all. Also, I DO so wish that the Bonus Feats would be regularly posted on the official TB1AE1D "The 80 Caches Bonus Coin" page. There are fully 50 folks (incl. me) watching that page, and I have it linked to my Xanadu racer coin page so those who are trying their best to help Xanadu are ever aware of what feats (incl. each monthly bonus feat) are currently available. Yet... Alas I missed out on logging the April/May feat for (apparently the pic w/ a policeman, etc.) 'cuz it was never posted on the official Bonus Coin page. Likewise this new May/June Bonus Feat - please post on the TB1AE1D page. That said, kudos to dear avroair for cobbling together a most creative and fun coin race. My Xanadu is now 11th (among 128) in points (and numero UNO in average pts./feat: 7.1), and I continue to be amazed at how earnest - both geochums and geostrangers across the globe - are in striving to earn the most points possible in their max. 3 moves. Indeed, no doubt this silly race has fostered new friendships and many smiles as cachers near and far tote a sparkly geoballoon 'round the World - all thanks to avroair!

Nope, I'm only in if it's bowling balls. Seems to me that it would be far easier if you just set it up so anybody who wants to join can get their own bowling ball, add a TB tag and... then set up a start date for the race (and ideally listing the race on cachinggames.com so folks could track the competition. No need to start all the balls in one place at all. Lots easier for each to find their own ball (Goodwill/their own local bowling ally) than for you to muster up all the balls.

Sounds like fun - email shortly. I'll supply my tag 'cuz I want to be sure there's a laminated info tag on my ball so folks know it's in a RACE. Also, while I whittle websites professionally, I don't have a spare moment just now to whittle one for the race. Each will have their own gc.com TB page of course, and the good news izzz... Suggest you contact the folks at www.cachinggames.com They run a number of geocaching races/games (currently, my little "Xanadu Traveler" is in 12th place - out of 80 - in the Around the World in 80 Caches race), and and they'd likely be happy to add this race to their site as well - its free!

Yup, NBJPoppa (who coincidently won one of the sparkly balloon coins in the monthly drawing - yea!) kindly managed to get a (10 point!) pic w/ Xanadu and a Groundspeak employee - YIPPEEE! 'Course... those of us here in the Emerald City are lucky - we have the frog pond just down the street!

Clearly the notion needs some tweaking, but I applaud your verve in brainstorming/thinking-outside-the-box. Kinda like the experiential difference between... taking a tour bus to Machu Picchu vs. whacking your merry way through the jungle with a machete (ah, now that'd be MY way to do it!) Indeed, you may well be onto something. I mean, such creative thinking once - why, once plopped the 1st Original Stash!

Roger that, thanks for clearing up part of it so swiftly. But... Just "a log"? In/out of a cache, but not necessarily a feat? or... someone else has to actually perform a feat in between the windmill bonus photo and the Groundspeak employee photo??? (gee, that seems a tad tough...) Am I making any sense whatsoever???

Roger that, thanks for clearing up part of it so swiftly. But... Just "a log"? In/out of a cache, but not necessarily a feat? or... someone else has to actually perform a feat in between the windmill bonus photo and the Groundspeak employee photo??? (gee, that seems a tad tough...) Am I making any sense whatsoever???

o.k. I'm confused (again!) - with these "bonus feats". I reread most the thead and get conflicting conclusions. Are, or are not the bonus feats treated precisely as the other 80 feats? i.e. must they conform to the the "no 2 consecutive by the same cacher", count as one among the 3 max. for any given cacher? e.g. A cacher took a pic of Xanadu with a windmill and I logged it as the 5 pt. bonus feat for March/April. Now the same cacher's taken a photo with a Groundspeak employee (10 pts!), but... must he first hand off Xanadu to another cacher (and they log a feat inbetween) before he can log the pic with gc.com employee? Or can he simply log the 10 pt. Groundspeak employee pic feat consecutively 'cuz... the previous feat was a bonus feat?? Corollary question... this "in between" to break up consecutives - must it be logged in/out of a cache by another cacher, or just handed off momentarily and logged on the TB page and/or... must another cacher must actually perform a FEAT in between to break up the consecutive? Dizzy I tell ya - makes me dizzy...

Lots to mull over here top con. Quick thought that springs to mind when you mention "surrounding the marker with waypoints"... Reminds me (again) of the (most nifty) clue car rallies I used to do ages ago in Chicago (and later, designed and ran for charity in OR). There you had a map w/ numbered wpts. Some were true, some not. You started w/ an envelope w/ the first clue and the solution to each clue was always some number. Then you'd head to that number on the map. (all of this, not necessarily what we're planning here, but...) Point is, in that case (and btw, this was at night, in cars, in a wide area of the city) - in order to be sure you had a correct number when you arrived at the vicinity of your chosen number on the map - there was always a striped pole as a marker (LOL, shades of "Amazing Race" again ), and the actual wpt (in this case, a bag of clues for the next stop) was always hidden within a say... 500 ft. of the pole marker. Thus if you didn't find a pole marker, you knew you'd chosen a bum number on the map, wouldn't waste time searching in vain, and would go back to the drawing board to solve the clue. (btw, each team also had a full set of SEALED envelopes with the answer to each clue, so - you could opt to open one if you were truly stumped, but of course were deducted points for each opened answer envelope.) Point izzz... perhaps that's what you mean re: marker surrounded by wpts? Perhaps a visible marker w/in somesuch feet of the rock... Then again, perhaps pole/rock redundant... But we still need somthing/somehow to get players within search range on the "grid" or whatever... How 'bout... O.k. so you determine the "playing field" (i.e. North, South, East, West coords of the entire play area) say... a half-mile square around some city landmark (or... the entire park boundaries, whatever) Then you draw a grid (say 500 ft. squares - about 5x5 grid, 25 squares/wpts) overlayed on the play area - this done in advance and paper copies made to hand out to each team. Grid numbered w/ pts based on distance to go from start (i.e. center square or whatever). Then teams head to each square, drop rock somewhere within each square, and... Then return to start, and switch - Team A races off to find the rocks on Team B's grid and vice versa... Or... play area bigger - 1 mile, again gridded w/ 500 ft. squares. But now we're talkin' a 10x10 grid, 100 squares so... Now you've introduced the possibility of EMPTY squares. i.e. Team A drops rocks in just 25 of the 100 squares, and then (necessarily?) plops a pole mid square to let folks know they at least have a "filled" square to look for the rock in (vs. not, so move on to another square...) Obviously this version would take longer to play. Goodness, so many possibilities - gotta luv "brainstorming", no?

Stumbled into this thread and oh my! I've long been into somehow devising various games such as this. Beginning to sound a bit like orienteering meet varients - whereby small markers are hung/placed about and... ...solved via assigning higher pts. for markers placed further away. Indeed, we just did a fun geoevent here in the Emerald City whereby a list of 20 odd wpts were given to each team (in cars, w/ GPSr's, no mapping software allowed) - some were worth 15 pts (the furtherest away), some 10 pts. and the nearest 5 pts. At each wpt you needed to answer a simple clue (like: what's on the blue sign, etc.) The object was to glean as many points as possible w/in a 2 hr. time period (pt. deductions for returning late back at the starting point.) It all worked great for spreading out the cars/racers 'cuz everybody could strategize their own route. This was over a say 15 mi. radius area from the start. Something similar could be done in a smaller area (big park) on foot. But it was all preplanned/preset up. Whereas, I like your idea of teams initially dropping their own rocks/markers. So the game could be run fairly spontaneosly, over 'n over. Rocks somehow seem better than some sort of markers (survey tape?) 'cuz they're natural (i.e. just a number or somesuch felt-tipped on each wouldn't leave geolitter should some markers not be found...) Not sure I follow what you mean here. But seems to me rocks on the ground (vs. marker in plain sight) would add to the challenge - though I agree you'd need to somehow narrow down the search area... I'm also wondering... how 'bout incorporating "projecting a wpt" into it. Maybe the teams set their wpts via coord + bearing + feet... I also like the notion of somehow incorporating clues into it. Maybe the teams set wpts and devise simple clues to narrow down the search area... Just random stray thoughts here. Perhaps way off base, but just brainstorming...

I've only once seen one of these honeys - in a black matte finish, as I recall? And it surely was wondrous. Just curious, why a new mint this time?

Coincidental. All this talk of "finds", how to define one, who can log one, under what circumstances, etc. Kinda makes me smile, 'cuz... Nearing my 1k milestone - soon to go down on a Triple g (grossi & gg) road trip to the Original Stash, I've thought long 'n hard just what this silly game of finding tupperware means to me. I mean, after 1,000 bundles of joy, just what does yet another "find" mean? In short, for me personally, it truly isn't "about the numbers". Thus, after my 1,000 find, I've decided that I'll stop counting. Not log any more smilies - leaving me free to cache freestyle, with no thought/pressure to somehow add another smiley/reach another milestone. Log notes of course, so the cache owners/other cachers contemplating going after the cache, know it's there. Likewise, dutifully logging a blue face when I "frail" to no avail. Point is (though some no doubt will call it geoblasphemy ) for me there will be no more numbers - just stay at a nice round 1-zero-zero-zero forever. Simply cache for the sheer JOY of it! And on the flip side - likewise no angst for those who choose to log finds whenever/however they well please.

Great! Just ordered a "Laptop Blue Set". But a bit disconcerting... what does the last line of the reservation form mean by: "Reservation does not guarantee you will receive a coin." Surely if I make a formal online reservation, I'll at least definitely be offered the opportunity to actually purchase what I ordered now, yes? Also, not sure what you mean by: "Nickel with Blue Translucent Top (LE)" (likewise "Red Translucent...") As there's no pic for the LE's, what exactly is this red/blue "Translucent Top" all about?

Hmmm... no doubt purely wondrous, but... Is it just me, or... I can't seem to find anything on the C&P site about ordering the Crikey...

And now there's Seahurst Park CITO (April 15th) by - none other than CENT2, the fine offspring of the cinco centavo lad himself!

Good lord - those are pure genius! Shoot, I'm in for 1 - at ANY cost!

Hmmm... nobody's mentioned the Maggies... On my Explorist 600, the Clock screen for "Daylight Savings, US" says "Daylight Savings starts on first Sunday of April..." Oops, guess the Maggie folk didn't know what those "rascals" have been up to (or likely I just need to d/l an update...) So it didn't "spring forward" automatically, but it was easy enough to simply punch the hour forward manually.

Yes indeedy - I can personally attest to last year's zany adventure - a.k.a. "Glub, glub, GLUB!" Still... though I'd love to risk my life against the mighty Wenatchee again this year, I'm sure there are many folks who'll want to join in "Insanity III", so I'll pass in order to give others a chance to glub, glub, glub their way to "Arco Edie". (geez and to think I only got a measly star 'n a half for that!)

Goodness, but that's a fine geoevent guide. The pics are awesome - looks like you guys there on the southright coast have waaaaay too much fun!