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    Michigan Geocachers

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    Posted · Edited by K9 Royale

    Hi Everyone!

    My husband and I just got started caching this past weekend (April 18,09) and found both that we had set out to find. I love this and wish I had found geocaching a long time ago!!

    Anybody in or around Livonia, MI that might like to go along with us on a search or two or just get together? Is there a club around here?? I would really love to meet with others who enjoy geocaching.

    Kathy

     

    Hi Kathy, my husband and I live in Livonia :) There is also http://www.mi-geocaching.org/ which is a great group of people!

     

    Roberta

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    To activate or not

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    Thanks for the replies I believe I will activate the ones I am keeping for my collection., I also have one I would like to set free taht I will be activating now I just have to figure out how to activate them. What should I do once I activate them won't they all show up on my trackables list I would say that list would start to get pretty cluttered is there another way to do this.

     

    Just put them in "unknown location" and it won't show up in your inventory.

    Pet Mission#2

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    1. sent email 2/18/2010

    2. Participating pet Sprite

    3. Type of pet Pembroke Welsh Corgi

    4. Received Name 3/3/10

    5. Mission Complete

    6. Mission Arrived! 3/3/10

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    Thank you Joanne. My dogs have been playing with their new stuffed bone all day today :( One of my dogs literally just brought it in the room as I was typing this :)

    Interest in geocoins going down?

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    Posted · Edited by K9 Royale

    Here's my perspective as a new cacher. Started 10/24/2009

     

    I loved the idea of travelers. Seeing as there's almost never any good swag in the caches (kid crap mostly). We leave something good even if we don't take anything, just to make it more interesting for the next geocacher. The travelers are usually the only interesting finds. I started with sending out a couple travel bugs.

     

    Then I found a couple coins in caches, some of which were really neat and I enjoyed sending them on their way. Then I went to my first local event where I saw some more coins.

     

    I looked into making my own coin and was like holy *(&*&^## I can't afford that.

     

    Then I found my first PT in a cache. I looked into what those were and I thought it was really cool and much more affordable. There were people at the local cacher meetings really into trading them too. So I made my first signature item. I look at PTs and geocoins as artwork and I collect in themes that I'm interested in: dogs (animals), fantasy/mystical creatures, tribal/celtic, Halloween.

     

    I started looking at this forum. I saw the Pay it Forward thread. Those were my first geocoins. Then I saw the cointests. I've won two of those so far. Neat! Then I started looking on ebay and artists sites. So now I have a little tupperware container filled with some geocoins with designs that I really like. If there weren't coins out there to buy then I wouldn't have any, as I can't afford to make a series of my own for trading. I also appreciate the people who are generous with their coins to help me along with my collection.

     

    Generally what I look for in geocoins are the themes that I enjoy, and usually neat shaped coins. Since PTs are all the same size and round, if I buy a geocoin I'd like it to be really interesting, pretty and different shaped.

     

    It was interesting to read this thread and the perspectives of the the people who have been collecting and trading geocoins for so long. What coins they seek and find interesting. Most are definitely different from the coins that I'm willing to buy.

     

    Oh, and my geocoins are only for discovery at events and for my personal enjoyment. I don't send them out because I know they would disappear immediately. I have one coin out circulating (other than the pay it forward coins) but it's of the cheap aluminum variety. If it disappears I won't be heartbroken and out a good chunk of change. I don't like moving along proxies (I think it's lame), so I haven't circulated any of my coins that way.

     

    Generally I'm more interested in PTs because they are affordable and I'm able to buy my own design and trade and build up my collection easier than with geocoins. I can also afford to be generous with them (putting them in caches) I do have a healthy interest in geocoins though, they need to strike my fancy and be affordable.

    Pet Mission#2

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    Posted · Edited by K9 Royale

    1. sent email 2/18/2010

    2. Participating pet Sprite

    3. Type of pet Pembroke Welsh Corgi

    4. Received Name

    5. Mission Complete

    6. Mission Arrived!

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    COINTEST!

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    This is Symphony. She is 14 years old now. She was found in a dumpster with her sister as a kitten. She was brought into a vet clinic where I was working at the time. Her sister got adopted right away, but no one adopted her. They let her run around the clinic sometimes since she was there for so long and she had such a personality that I ended up taking her home. I named her Symphony to give her some "class" after her humble beginning. She is very sweet, but doesn't like to lay in your lap. She will sit next to you and paw you for her petting. She had a disease that degenerated her joints so her knees are very arthritic and painful now. It's hard for her to jump, but she still does get around okay. The vet said her knee xray looked like someone threw gravel in her knees. Ouch :) Still, she's happy and keeps the dogs around here in line :D

    COINTEST!

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    This is our cat Ceric. He is 14 years old now. We call him Rock-Rock most of the time. He likes to give head butts and his head is hard as a rock. It hurts sometimes when he bonks you right in the nose! He is a very sweet and cuddly cat. I have had people over that said they don't like cats but they DO like Ceric. They say he is very dog like. He loves to "make biscuits" or "knead dough" with his paws. He even makes air biscuits when he's laying on his back. We also call them love biscuits. You can hear him purr from across the room. He is very naughty so it's lucky for him that he's so dang cute. We have to keep any food very tightly secured. He has knocked canisters of treats/pet food off the counter to get into the canister. He opens up the rubbermaid bins that have dog and cat food in them by lifting off the tops. We have to leave 2 liters of pop on top of them now or else he will help himself. He has chewed though the plastic of loaves of bread and eaten the bread. We have to keep that in a cabinet now too. We have to keep any cat or dog treats very secure. If any food is left out anywhere in his reach he will most definitely find it. He chews plastic too. Any plastic grocery bags or plastic wrapping off new purchases. Oh, and we can't leave packages out at Christmas because he will chew the bows and ribbons. I have gifted many a gift with Ceric chew holes in them :)

    COINTEST!

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    Mystic is 15 years old now. She drinks water by dipping her paw in the bowl and licking it off of her paw. Never by lapping up the water! She will not eat any meat you give to her, but she does like potato chips, lemon cookies and cheerios. When she was younger she liked to suck on her tail and then she would walk around with a wet pointy tip on her tail. We nick named her Scorpina. Her other nicknames are Myst, Mysterina and Princess Mysta. She likes to meow back to you in response to her name, and then we will have entire meow conversations that go like... Myst... meow.. really? meow.. you don't say ... meow. Serioulsy? meow. Ok that's enough.. meow. Seriously no one wants to hear your crap meow.. ok be quiet now.. meow etc etc... until one of us gets bored :)

    Monster-in-the-Box COINTESTS

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    I haven't entered any cointests before. Been geocaching since October 2009.

     

    I'd love to win a coin and this one is really cute :ph34r: I think of one of my dogs or cats in there peeking out at me :ph34r:

     

    I like the green one best.

     

    Thanks for the consideration!

    TB logging etiquette

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    Not exactly the same situation, but a TB etiquette question all the same:

     

    I have caching friends in other states. Is it proper TB etiquette to pick up a TB, then send it in the mail to a friend for placing in a new cache? Or does protocol say that if I pick it up, that I must be the person to place it in a new cache?

     

    Thanks,

    strawberrycreek

    Texas

     

    They're supposed to move from cache to cache. You're not supposed to mail them. Some TB owners will mail them to get them started or whatever. I would ask the TB owner before doing anything like that.

    Vehicle Static Cling/Decal/Magnet Travel Bugs?

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    Posted · Edited by K9 Royale

    I see from the GS site that you can put a TB on your car and also sew a TB Patch to your jacket making them trackable. So how does this work? Do you log them in and out of every cache you visit? If you see one in your travels, do you log it into the nearest cache or do you just forget about the caching and log the relevent TB page? Do you discover it from an unknown location and place it back to an unknown location? Please explain!

     

    Thanks! SVAQUARELLE

     

    My husband and I have a patch that is sewn on our geocaching pack that we take with us when we're out caching. http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.as...e9-cbd1e6442e32 I do log it in and out of every cache we've been to, at least so far :) It's not that bad, I just keep a seperate TB page open and drop it in the cache when I do a "found it" log. Then I go to the TB page and retrieve it out of that cache. Just flipping from one open browser page to the other.

     

    We took the patch with us to our first local event and several cachers we met discovered it there. Oh, and there were at least 3 cachers at the event that had "Hello My name is" metal tags that were magnetic that had a place for their screen name/real name and their tracking number on them.

    TB that have sat in caches for long periods of time

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    Every time I go to a cache that lists a TB that doesn't have a TB in it, I cut one of my fingers off.

     

    It's definitely annoying to be looking for a TB/coin that's listed as being there and it's not. I just do my part by saying (by the TBs name) that it is NOT in the cache when I do my "found it" log. I also go to the TB page to tell the TB owner it is not in the cache.

     

    If nothing is done about it and I notice it's still the same a few weeks later I'll tell Eartha about it. She's already taken care of a few of them for me. Thanks :blink:

    TB logging etiquette

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    Posted · Edited by K9 Royale

    This weekend I was on holiday for Thanksgiving and I only had time to log a few caches before getting back home. Upon arriving home, I discovered that someone had retrieved a geocoin I dropped off and sent an email dated the day after drop off. The person who sent the email was requesting that I log it as having been dropped off. The same day that person logged the geocoin as having been taken from me, found in the cache where I had originally found it, and dropped in the cache I left it in. I did not know of, much less read, the email or any of these logs until yesterday, when I arrived back home.

     

    While not a life-altering experience, I was looking forward to logging that I had carried a geocoin across the country to return it to its mission. :blink: Is this standard practice when a coin is not immediately logged as dropped off? I was under the impression that a few days, at a minimum, was considered polite since not everyone can log while traveling.

     

    The coin in question is http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.as...62-5b20f488996b

     

    I recommend getting an Iphone or a laptop :laughing: I probably would have done the same thing. Not very patient waiting around for people to log stuff. I'd probably wait a day at most if I saw that it was just dropped off. Then I'd make sure the bug was logged correctly. I always log everything as soon as I get home from a caching trip, but could do it from my Iphone too if I wanted to.

     

    I don't ever take a TB from one cache and then drop it in another cache on the same caching trip. I always take it home, log it, take pictures or whatever, look at it's history blah blah and then I put it in my caching bag to be placed next time I go out caching. It helps with making sure stuff is logged correctly and I get to enjoy the TB a bit before sending it back out on it's journey.

    A cool TB story

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    Back in November of 2005, I released a Travel Bug called "Carry That Weight." It was a 1 ounce fishing weight connected to the dog tag. In the description on the TB page, it said that the TB was born of the Beatles "Abbey Road" era, and would love to somehow make it over to Abbey Road. Some time after it's release, I kind of got away from geocaching. I got really busy with my business, and just didn't have the energy to get out much. I did maintain my premium membership though. Two nights ago, I went online and just for laughs I thought that I would look at Geocaching.com and then I looked at my profile, etc. When I started looking at my travel bugs, I noticed that Carry That Weight had over 13,000 miles on it. Not that the mileage was a record or anything, but it was the farthest traveled of any of my TB's.

    As I started looking at it, I noticed that there were some photos that Cachers had attached, and then I realized what I was looking at. There was a picture of a Cacher (redirected male) holding up the TB, in the crosswalk ON ABBEY ROAD!!!! All that was missing, was the VW with the "28IF" license plate. It literally sent shivers up my spine. Thank you ever so much to redirected male and the other cachers who made this incredible journey possible. To say the least, it made my day. It was truly a dream realized. I never thought that I would be jealous of one of my own travel bugs, but I guess I am. :)

     

    That's awesome! Now you need to update the mission :) Great photos!

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