[Thief!]

No, I'm not talking about geocoin theives or even geocache theives.

 

Someone broke into my car a couple of nights ago and stole my GPSr (that's about all they took). They also got into my neighbors car and took a $5 gift card.

 

On the other hand, the thief left an LED headlamp (I don't he understood the concept of trade even, trade up) and tomorrows is my birthday and since I'll *need* a GPS for my trip to Costa Rica next month it looks like I'm in the market for a new GPS receiver. I'm tempted just to try and find someplace that still sells the discontinued Garmin GPSmap 60CSx at a cheap price but might consider this also as an opportunity to upgrade. Suggestions?

 

I realize I am off the thread a bit, but this is a strange coincidence.

 

I live in Iowa. I was in Austin, Texas for New Years. While I was there my car was robbed and at first I thought that the only things I thought I had lost were an LED headlamp and some change.

 

When I got home several days later, I realized that the thief had also taken my passport, but that is another story.

 

I am assuming you are from New York, but if you were in Austin for New Years, then perhaps there is a car thief running around taking things from one car and leaving them in another.

 

I didn't find any booty in my car though

 

Peace,

Irving

[Favorites List]

I love the favorites idea.

 

It took me forever to find where to click in order to add a cache to my favorites. Perhaps I am slow, but it wouldn't hurt to either make it more prominent or give some instructions about where it is. (You go to your found caches, click on the one you wish to favorite. There is a light orange box on the upper right just below the navigation links.) You could put it with the box where which shows the number of favorites the cache has. That is where I kept wanting it to be when I didn't yet know where it really was. (This probably means I am not very good at Geocaching. )

 

I don't think 10% is too many. No one has to use them, but anyone who finds that they are piling up could decide to lower their standards a notch. I plan to use them to help me choose which cache to look for when I have limited time in a new location, so I hope people will use them.

 

Sorting a PQ by most favorited doesn't seem to work right. I just checked my most used PQ which is the 200 closest to my home. That PQ has no caches farther than 13 miles from me, but when I sort by most favorited, I get many which are farther away. Ones which were definitely not in the PQ before.

 

Peace.