[Roadtripping and Cacheing]

So first I'd like to suggest a category easier than easy: caching for dummies! Because yes, while you will notice that we did manage to find some cache's we are still dumbfounded when we get to "easy" ones with comments like "takes less than a minute" and we still can not find them!!!! ARGH!!!

 

But more importantly - let me ask - if you are taking a road trip do you plan your trip around caches or do you just like open your App and find nearby caches while you are on the road?

 

We recently went to Chincoteague and when we got there we obviously opened the app and found a few caches. However, on the way home, we didn't quite figure out a method of caching - we did stop for lunch and found one there - but along the roadway - we just didn't quite plan ahead maybe? I kept opening the app, but there seemed to be no method to the madness so we drove by several and didn't stop. So what kind of planning do you do on roadtrips?

 

We will be going from Annapolis to Wareham Massachusetts this summer. Any tips, good caches we must see? etc? Hoping to get at least a state badge for every state we travel through.... just haven't wrapped my head around the planning (I get distracted/overwhelmed easily).

 

Thanks for any tips!

 

Nut

 

To say when we were caching "in the day" (we had a long break in there due to not having any, or very few, within 100 or so miles from the house), that we planned our trips around caching would be Almost a lie. With the exceptions of 2 last second decision trips, we would plan One location to go to. We drive to all our vacation spots (which we haven't done in a while either) so we would run PQs for certain areas and determine our drive by where we could get some (we also have a Nuvi GPS for the car). Now that we live in a new area that has LOTS of caches within 30 miles of home we're getting back into caching. We are, however without a GPS of any kind. We use only our phones. So right now we get to a spot and open the app. Otherwise, the next time we take a trip We will still do a PQ to determine the best spot for a short stop, but use our maps from the phones to get to the general location and then we will open the app there. I actually hope to get a new GPS (handheld) to add to the fun. As for the "takes less than a minute" but you're still having problems... We had some problems when first getting started. It takes a bit of patience. I got to were I could get out of the car at just about any of them and go almost straight to the cache. Except for the hike ones lol.

[Cachers in McAllen, TX]

Hi! And welcome to Texas!

 

As you can see, there is not a lot of activity in this forum for Texas cachers. You may have better luck by going HERE and finding the local group that serves your area and go from there.

Thank you! I'll check it out today :-)

[Facebook]

I was wondering about this as well... I tried to add my e-mail that my facebook is attached to, but it says it's already in use (that e-mail)...

 

We find that sometimes people accidentally create an account without realizing it - thus causing their e-mail address to be "already in use". Send me a private message with the e-mail that you would like to add to your account and I can disable the other account and help get it in the system for you.

 

That is possible, I guess. hadn't thought of that. It is very possible that the Very first time we happened across the fun I could have used the other one. I sent you the email. Thank you

[Facebook]

Hi there!

 

It's true that a primary e-mail address can only be tied to one user account - it causes hiccups in the system if more than account use the same primary e-mail (we used to allow this). To link your geocaching.com account to Facebook they need to be using the same e-mail address - do you know how to change your primary e-mail address?

 

Here are the steps:

1. Visit Geocaching.com and sign into your account.
2. Hover over the "Your Profile" tab and select "Account Details."
3. Scroll down to the section called "Your Validated E-Mail Addresses" and select "Change".
4. Enter your new e-mail address in the "Add E-Mail Address" box and re-enter your password.
5. You'll receive a validation e-mail to the new e-mail address. Click on the link provided in that e-mail to validate the new address.
6. Once your new e-mail address is validated, you can change it to be your primary and remove any other e-mail addresses that you no longer want on your profile. Do this from the Manage E-mail Addresses Page.

 

Once your e-mails match on your Facebook and Geocaching.com accounts you will be able to link them up and have fun with your family.

 

Let me know if you have any questions or need further assistance.

I was wondering about this as well... I tried to add my e-mail that my facebook is attached to, but it says it's already in use (that e-mail)...

[Cachers in McAllen, TX]

Originally from NE Oklahoma (near Miami, OK/Joplin, MO), My family and I moved to McAllen Texas the weekend of Thanksgiving 2012; following my husband's job. We really enjoy the area! It's been a couple years since we have found (and logged) a cache (we found a few others, but was using an Android app that didn't work, and didn't realize... Didn't make notes on them). I hope to get back into it soon. Hope it's like riding a bike... Rusty at first, but then being able to go right to one again lol. I prided myself on being able to, almost always, walk almost to the cache I was looking for :-)

Been out of touch with the whole Geocaching thing. I would love to touch base with local cachers, if nothing else, on here. So, I'm just wondering if any local cachers ever wonder around in these Forums

[Allanon]

Brian will be missed by many of us. I haven't been around as much the last year or maybe two, but I always enjoyed the time I spent talking with him on the forums, and in messages. I will miss him dearly. I wish I didn't live so far from there. My heart goes out to all his family and friends.

[TB mileage not calculating]

I activated and placed a travel golden nugget (similar to a coin) on 4/21/09 and it has not shown a mileage map ever! What is the problem?

 

Until the site fixes the issue try accessing the bug page and click the pull down menu labeled Mark as Missing. Under there is the Recalculate distance option.

On a whim I decided to try this method again and it worked. I'd been trying it ever so often since I noticed it not working. My other TBs are doing the same thing. I think I'm going to do the same thing for them now.

[TB mileage not calculating]

My personal TB did this for the first time ever today. Kinda sucks, I like using it to keep track of the miles we travel while out caching Hopefully it will update soon. I've hit the "recalculate miles" button 10-15 times with no luck so far.

[Caching in Texas]

I wanted to see if anyone had any suggestions to some good, great or just can't pass up caches in or around Goodrich, Texas. We're also planning on going down to the Galveston area so I can see the Ocean.

As I said I just wanted to see if there's any Can't live without getting caches in the area of Goodrich (or if there's a good one near Galveston, though not sure how much of a chance we'll have for caching down there). We're going to be visiting family while there and plan to stay most the week. Will arrive late Tuesday (maybe Monday depending on my hours that day) and be there through hopefully Saturday.

 

Thanks in advanced. I'll try and check in tomorrow to see what any has to say.

 

I have quite a few caches almost on the way to Galveston.

I'll have to keep that in mind then.

I am moving your thread from the Geocaching Topics forum to the South and Southeast forum.

That would help, I suppose... I didn't even think of that.

[Caching in Texas]

I wanted to see if anyone had any suggestions to some good, great or just can't pass up caches in or around Goodrich, Texas. We're also planning on going down to the Galveston area so I can see the Ocean.

As I said I just wanted to see if there's any Can't live without getting caches in the area of Goodrich (or if there's a good one near Galveston, though not sure how much of a chance we'll have for caching down there). We're going to be visiting family while there and plan to stay most the week. Will arrive late Tuesday (maybe Monday depending on my hours that day) and be there through hopefully Saturday.

 

Thanks in advanced. I'll try and check in tomorrow to see what any has to say.

[PQs are not currently generating]

I'm glad it's not just me...

[My pet LOVE!]

needed a new book mark...

[My pet LOVE!]

I love taking pictures, but I keep them off the cache pages. I put them in my personal travel bug log and up in my online photo galleries. Here's my photos if anyone wants to see:

 

Geocaching - Volume II

 

Geocaching - Volume I

 

Travel Bugs - Volume I

 

Photos do include spoilers.

Now I have something to do between cleaning tomorrow. Thank You!

[My pet LOVE!]

Okay this one Jerry took at the location of "Legend of Greenbush"

Sorry it's so big...

 

This one I took for a TB: "Banner's Bug"

It came out WAY better then I thought it would. I was holding the TB *as seen* in my left hand and taking the pic with my right hand. I like "Point and Shoot" cameras

 

One for "Don't Bet the Farm" TB:

This place was pretty neat. We took out right after Jerry got off work (at 11pm) and was headed to Minnesota. This Casino is located pretty much in the middle of NOWHERE,USA... Or it seams... It was in the middle of the night... We may just not been able to see anything else for the fact it was dark, we could see the lights about 20 miles away.

 

That's all I have for now.

[My pet LOVE!]

These three were taken for my TB "In Memory of Jay:

 

*Jay made it to "Mingo" *

 

 

More to come later... Hubby just got home I'll have to do the rest later.

[My pet LOVE!]

Well, I decided to post here my favorite pictures from caches & TBs I'd remember to upload pictures to before our HD crashed and we lost 90% of our pictures. My husband is a Hobbyist Photographer and takes pictures all the time. Kinda works out. I get to find a cache and he gets to take pictures. Anywho I will add the name and a few are pictures others have uploaded to my TBs.

 

Uploaded for my TB "If Only For the View".

looks like the TB is MIA now the last cache it was in got muggled...

 

Uploaded for My TB "Pilgrim's Progress"

more to come...

[Do I post an "Owner Maintenance" log?]

Am I supposed to post an "Owner Maintenance" log when I check on a cache and everything was fine? There were no DNFs or problems noted prior to my visit, I just wanted to see how the cache was holding up.

 

Thanks

I sometimes check on mine no matter what and tend to post the owners maintenance log just because I can.

[Newbie Question: Retrieving items from own cache...]

Greetings fellow cachers...

 

We're in the process of hiding our second cache and we've now racked up about a dozen finds.

 

When visiting your own cache to ensure everything is in order, is it acceptable to retrieve items that have been deposited? Or, is all activity inside your own cache the property of "other" cachers?

 

[yes, something "nifty" landed in ours recently and my wife really wants it! I told her we couldn't trade with our own cache but wanted to make sure.] [ha!] :-)

 

Cheers!

 

I've been known to trade up on one of my caches. Some items (like non-tractable coins) I'll only trade for so i can take a picture and then I'll place it into a different cache. My husband don't think I should, but I see nothing wrong with it, myself. So, I say as long as you trade up or even it doesn't matter.

[glennk721 Operation Spreading Sunshine !]

I finally grabbed #11 today. Sorry about not doing it sooner. My net has been down hill for about a week or so. No worries, it's better now. I will be placing mine tomorrow or the next day. I will have to look and see if I can find a good Micro for it or if I need to place one for it. Thanks for letting me have Oklahoma's!

[glennk721 Operation Spreading Sunshine !]

I'll take OKlahoma.

[Keeping Count of Finds]

Hi!

 

Is there an official or approved way to keeping count of how many finds of official geocaches one finds? DEN held the CUE Geocache 2007 and one woman there told of her brother who has over 30,000 finds and even won the Jeep! Ok, so I only have 3 but I'm hooked. After a little more practice I'll be leading my first graders on hunts with 1/1 ratings. No more couch potato kids!

Other then logging my finds onlne I also buy the log books from the geostore. I take them with me and write my logs in them. They are actually for placing in caches, but are great for keeping your personal experience in!

I also have a personal Travel Bug that helps me out as well.

[Change screen name/alias]

I'd like to determine how I can change my screen/account name from "utahlanman" to "BruteForce"?

 

Thanks.

Your best bet would be to open a new account. You can read about changing name here.

Forgot to add that as I have seen you can have the premium membership changed to the new account after you make it.

[Change screen name/alias]

I'd like to determine how I can change my screen/account name from "utahlanman" to "BruteForce"?

 

Thanks.

Your best bet would be to open a new account. You can read about changing name here.

[Curiosity killed the Cat...]

I stalk some people very often. I look at alot of profiles at different times. No real reason really. I have bad sleeping problems and get bored with reading long threads and decide to be nosy and check out profiles. Honestly I haven't looked at one (at all) in about a month... First step is admitting you have a problem right?

[What's Your Age?]