bradtal

Should have mentioned that in my previous post. I already contacted the owner and he said it was ok to do the "touch-and-go's". I guess my question is related more to the "micro caches" since a travel bug attached to a stuffed animal or a luggage tag, etc wouldn't "fit" into a micro-cache.

Hello All- I have a question for you. I will be traveling to Washington from Colorado next week. I have two travel bugs that want to stop in each and every state I drive through. My question is, if I find a "micro-cache" along the way, will that count as a cache that the travel bug visited? (I'm "touching" the cache with the travel bug, but keeping the bug so it can go onto the next state, and so on. I will then log each "touch" on the travel bugs page). I know "virtual" caches won't count, but I was wondering about micro-caches. Thank you.

Hello- MapQuest & MapBlast don't show the lat & long on the map anymore, however, you can get them by doing the following: In MapBlast, enter the address you want and get the map. Then, pick on the "Print" button, and it will change the page to a "printer-friendly" image. Notice at the bottom, it lists the lat & long. Hope this helps.

Hello All- I hid my first cache over the weekend (yea! ) and already 4 people have found it. One thing I noticed is that almost all of them said, "I got within 3 feet", or "Found it in 5 minutes". I did spend a lot of time making sure my coordinates were correct (I walked to my hiding site from 10 different directions and took a waypoint, then averaged all 10 to get the final coordinate). I guess my question is... Did I make it too accurate? Or too easy? Do you usually take the waypoint "near" the area and not "exactly" over the cache location? I'm glad my first one was this easy, but in the future, I'd like to make it more of a challenging hunt for everyone. What do you recommend here? Brad [This message was edited by bradtal on July 01, 2002 at 09:21 AM.] [This message was edited by bradtal on July 02, 2002 at 08:36 AM.]

Hello All- I hid my first cache over the weekend (yea! ) and already 4 people have found it. One thing I noticed is that almost all of them said, "I got within 3 feet", or "Found it in 5 minutes". I did spend a lot of time making sure my coordinates were correct (I walked to my hiding site from 10 different directions and took a waypoint, then averaged all 10 to get the final coordinate). I guess my question is... Did I make it too accurate? Or too easy? Do you usually take the waypoint "near" the area and not "exactly" over the cache location? I'm glad my first one was this easy, but in the future, I'd like to make it more of a challenging hunt for everyone. What do you recommend here? Brad [This message was edited by bradtal on July 01, 2002 at 09:21 AM.] [This message was edited by bradtal on July 02, 2002 at 08:36 AM.]

Hello All- I thought of a new project for Jeremy once he finishes the way cool new search tools. How about a GeoCaching Arcade Game? You try to find as many "caches" in a 3D world before your battery level (shown as a bar graph on the left of your screen) runs out, or before it gets dark. The more mosquitoes you kill, the better. Also, you could be chased by large, blood-sucking ticks, and must make your way through blackberry bushes, fields of poison oak, and not fall off of slippery logs across rain-filled creeks. Of course, the farther you make it in the game, the more difficult the cache finds would get. Maybe even have to answer brain-teaser questions to get the next clue. Maybe Jeremy could get Sega or Nintendo to buy the game and then this site would be sponsored for life?! Of course, I'm only joking. Jeremy is too busy making this site and the sport of GeoCaching way to cool to be spending time on an arcade game.

Hello All- I thought of a new project for Jeremy once he finishes the way cool new search tools. How about a GeoCaching Arcade Game? You try to find as many "caches" in a 3D world before your battery level (shown as a bar graph on the left of your screen) runs out, or before it gets dark. The more mosquitoes you kill, the better. Also, you could be chased by large, blood-sucking ticks, and must make your way through blackberry bushes, fields of poison oak, and not fall off of slippery logs across rain-filled creeks. Of course, the farther you make it in the game, the more difficult the cache finds would get. Maybe even have to answer brain-teaser questions to get the next clue. Maybe Jeremy could get Sega or Nintendo to buy the game and then this site would be sponsored for life?! Of course, I'm only joking. Jeremy is too busy making this site and the sport of GeoCaching way to cool to be spending time on an arcade game.

** I went ahead and deleted this message as I guess some people felt it didn't really have anything to do with GeoCaching. I was just trying to share a funny experience and put a smile on some peoples' faces, but I guess that's just not the case. I'll try to stay more "serious" from now on... ** [This message was edited by bradtal on June 28, 2002 at 05:28 AM.]

I think this is a great idea. I would make it easy enough that everyone could do it, but hard enough that it's not just "a walk around a park", if you get my drift. I was thinking if you had enough people interested, you could break them into groups (like maybe four groups). Then, each group goes and finds two caches. The first cache for each group has coords/clues/whatever. The second cache is the same one for everyone. That way, each group meets back together and combines all the coords/clues. This in turn, would lead everyone to the final (more difficult) cache site. Whadda'ya think?

I wonder if Garmin or Magellean would want to help support this page by allowing Jeremy to post a coupon for 15% off of a GPS unit. I know for a fact that if I was on this site looking for a new GPS, and I saw a coupon that I could print out and take to my local dealer, I would do it. Garmin/Magellean would get more business this way. Plus, Jermemy could require that they pay to advertise their coupon. Just my two cents (which I left in the last geocache I found...)

I would seriously recommend archiving or moving this cache. Here's why. If you were out hunting for the cache, and the police decided to have one of their "raids", you would be in a world of hurt. The whole "innocent until proven guilty" doesn't come into play here. It's the other way around. You are guilty until proven innocent, and how are you going to prove you are not one of "those types"? My wife worked for the police department, so I have many instances of raids "gone wrong" for people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time (like a hitch-hiker who was in a car at the time of the raid and was arrested, even though he had no clue what was going on...) Plus, I wouldn't want to bend over in this area while digging through the cache. Sorry, couldn't resist. But seriously... Just my 2 cents...

I would seriously recommend archiving or moving this cache. Here's why. If you were out hunting for the cache, and the police decided to have one of their "raids", you would be in a world of hurt. The whole "innocent until proven guilty" doesn't come into play here. It's the other way around. You are guilty until proven innocent, and how are you going to prove you are not one of "those types"? My wife worked for the police department, so I have many instances of raids "gone wrong" for people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time (like a hitch-hiker who was in a car at the time of the raid and was arrested, even though he had no clue what was going on...) Plus, I wouldn't want to bend over in this area while digging through the cache. Sorry, couldn't resist. But seriously... Just my 2 cents...

Hello. I used my GPS once as a "baby-sitter". My wife & I were incharge of taking care of 3 boys while thier parents stayed the week in Hawaii. The boys were bored and my wife was pulling her hair out trying to think of new games to keep them busy (you can only play Pictionary so many times... ) So, I ran through the neigborhood real quick and hid about 10 golfballs in trees, behind bricks, etc. I marked each location, and then came back to the house. The boys used the GPS (taking turns) to find each of the golfballs. They had a great time, my wife was able to relax, and I got plenty of exercise walking with them around the nieghborhood. The only unfortunate part was that they now wanted to play this GPS game all the time.

Hello. I used my GPS once as a "baby-sitter". My wife & I were incharge of taking care of 3 boys while thier parents stayed the week in Hawaii. The boys were bored and my wife was pulling her hair out trying to think of new games to keep them busy (you can only play Pictionary so many times... ) So, I ran through the neigborhood real quick and hid about 10 golfballs in trees, behind bricks, etc. I marked each location, and then came back to the house. The boys used the GPS (taking turns) to find each of the golfballs. They had a great time, my wife was able to relax, and I got plenty of exercise walking with them around the nieghborhood. The only unfortunate part was that they now wanted to play this GPS game all the time.

Webling- Now, THAT was funny. I'm still laughing at that one. Wait... Gota wipe the tears from my eyes... K. I'm back. Thanks for the laugh.

We used a gps in one of our Electrathon Race Cars (check out http://electrathonamerica.org for a decription of Electrathon Racing) Basically, the object is to race your electric vehicle as fast and as far in 1 hour as possible. We used the gps to record current speed (it was more accurate than the bike computers) and our average speed (this was very important). We then downloaded the track info into Delormes' TopoUSA and was able to see how our driver (me) was taking the corners and which areas of the track were we slowest/fastest in. It was quite fun. Now if the gps would only record motor temp, tire pressure, amperage pull, etc.

We used a gps in one of our Electrathon Race Cars (check out http://electrathonamerica.org for a decription of Electrathon Racing) Basically, the object is to race your electric vehicle as fast and as far in 1 hour as possible. We used the gps to record current speed (it was more accurate than the bike computers) and our average speed (this was very important). We then downloaded the track info into Delormes' TopoUSA and was able to see how our driver (me) was taking the corners and which areas of the track were we slowest/fastest in. It was quite fun. Now if the gps would only record motor temp, tire pressure, amperage pull, etc.

Here's another "altered" photo. Obviously, there won't be any discussion on whether this one is real or not. The poster must not have wanted to give away the location of the geocache... http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cachelog_details.asp?ID=34143&L=281494

Hello All- I have an odd question for all of you. I picked up a travel bug at one of our Colorado geocaches. This travel bug's "theme" is to visit every one of the 50 states. I was going to drop it off in a cache in South Dakota, but my transmission in my car decided to die on me, so I had to turn back. I will be driving from Colorado to Oregon next month. I plan on taking some time to visit geocaches along the way. So, my question is... If I "visit" a geocache in a different state, but don't leave the tavel bug there, does that count as the travel bug being in that state? Does that make sence? Or do I need to leave the travel bug in a geocache for someone else to move it to a different state? Thanks.