1SheMarine

I have a Samsung Acclaim and use the Cgeo app to cache. How do you do the multi caches? I have tried to download the cgeo manual but the phone wont let me.

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Good on you, mate.

Many times, I want to write something cool and profound, but in the excitement of the find, my mind forgets all that, and I end up writing a short simple note. Lately, some of my finds have been epic (like slipping on the way back to the car, and having my body bent into unatural positions, forgetting the pen, battery going dead just as I get close enough to the cache, the distance on the cgeo saying 12 kilometers when I know I have to be right on top of it somewhere, the phone clip belt case breaks and the phone falls on the tarmac and becomes four pieces). I usually log the caching sagas in a nice long story, as they are funny to read. I use my Droid to cache, and am logging the find on the way back to the car most of the time ( hence the slip and fall once), and I am trying to get the most caches found in the time I allot myself before heading for home. Shorter logs tend to be my norm on those all day caching spurts. Most of the time I forget to put in the alphabet soup - TFTC, TNLNTFTC.... I do know that when I first started, I had to translate all the alphabet soup. I am not a texter on the phone, and don't know all the abbreviations. Last thought: I though that you HAD TO put in a comment on the log, and that it wouldn't let you log it without one. At least that is what my droid does.

Here in Henderson County, NC, we get the ornage bags from the county DOT. You fill them, leave them on the roadsides, and call them to pick them up. Sometimes it takes them a bit to come get them. I don't know if they have this roadside cleanup program in Florida. We have two pickup drives a year, one in the spring and one in the fall. I just pick up the trash when there isn't too much poison ivy along the roads, and when it is not boiling hot. You would have to call your county DOT, and see if they do this.

I've had two bugs that bit the dust. One traveled, made it's way back to the area, and I noticed that it had changed. It was named Round Metal Ring Thing (it was a round metal ring from hardware store). Apparantly the chain came off, and the tag was lost. Someone ressurected it (don't know how without the tag), and taped the tracking number onto a metal cap. I went to the cache it was in and retrieved it. Yes, it was mine, but with a transmogrification. Well, I set it free again. And the cache I let it loose in, got plowed over with a backhoe! Oh, the horrors! That cache site has been muggled and plowed more than once. I bought a new ring, attached it to the copy tag with a split key ring, and hauled it around a bit with me before letting it loose again. And then, someone took it to Geowoodstock this year! Yeah! I don't know what happened to the other bug, which just happened to be related to the round one. This one was Flat Metal Ring Thing. And yes, bought at the same store. Got another flat ring, attached the copy tag with a split ring, and away we went. Both are still moving, thankfully. I spent a year, thinking on what I wanted to release, and have since let loose things that I hope don't turn a fancy to others (especially the little ones). One of my first bugs, HighTechHighTouch Flyer, is debatable on whether it is still alive. We do worry about our beloved travelers, though, don't we?

I was finally able to attend a CITO event this spring, along the Swannannoa River in Asheville, NC. Hauled out, among other things, was a toilet. Someone even found a wallet. I regularly do roadside pickup along a mile stretch of my road. Last haul, several months ago, netted 17 or so bags in one weekend. I've brought home drinking glasses, toys, a sun shield, and a working air compressor that plugs in the cig lighter port. Once at at cache site, I picked up a 6ft section of skinny pvc pipe (I know we'll use it eventually at our house). And i have hauled home lots of tennis balls and golf balls. Sometimes, I'm in a power caching mode, and want to find as many as I can that day, so doing CITO kinds of falls into the back of my head. And, I assume that last sentence falls into the category of a lot of cachers. (There is one section, near my home, that had a cache, but looks like it became a dump. I spent 30 minutes there, looking for the cache that was archived. Don't know how I missed that. I have told myself that I will head up there, with my orange roadside cleanup bags, and hop to it. I leave all my orange bags next to the road and call the Bag Pick Up Crew at transportation, and they come get them.) Enough spouting, don't even know if anyone else will read this posting.

What about using a bear proof canister that Backpackers use to keep out the bears???

I was in the Marine Corps out of high school in the 80's for 8 years and proud of it. Hence - 1SheMarine