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We also leave rubber duckies from Oriental Traders. In fact after we started leaving the rubber ducks, we needed a group name for an event, so my husband, daughter, granddaughter and I became "The Lucky Ducks." Now in addition to the rubber ducks we leave keychains. A cacher found one and made it into a trackable and adopted it over to me.

I love cemetery caches. I told my husband, that if I pass before him, I want him to use my stone for a cache of some sort, that way I can have lots of visitors.

We keep a "snack bag" ready to go. Actually the granddaughter, Lil Diva Hunter is now in charge of the snack bag and what is in it after she complained that there wasn't anything good in there. She usually takes Scooby Snacks, Rice Krispy treats, fruit roll-ups, fruit snacks, raisons, Capri Sun drinks and for us old people, we have water and cheese/peanut butter crackers. Edited to add: She has a snack before and after each cache and during the ride to and from I think caching to her is a means to get snacks.

I absolutely love to have parking waypoints listed. Especially when caching in an unfamiliar area.

I was in Girl Scouts from the age of 6 to 18. Then about a year after that, I was a troop leader for a Junior scout troop for 2 years. My dad was a Cubmaster and a Scoutmaster for over 30 years. My brother was an Eagle and they both were OA. Dad also received the Silver Beaver award. Sadly, my own sons went through cubs, but didn't stay more than a year or so in scouts. My daughter only stayed 1 year in Brownies. My granddaughter, Lil Diva Hunter is now a Daisy Scout, hopefully she will stay interested.

I work days and my husband works evenings so we have to wait for the weekends to go. We try and make the most of the weekend. I just hate it when it rains on the weekend and spoils our plans. Last weekend I had a quilt show, so we didn't get to go at all I'm hoping to make up for lost time this weekend. We only need 16 more to hit 500. I want to save #500 until we get to Disney in a week, so I think we will try and stay under 10 for the weekend.

Around the Sharon, PA area, there is a series of caches, called the Zombie Nation Uprising. You have to visit 15 cemeteries to gather digits, then arrange the digits in the correct order to find the final. We really had a great time doing this one. There is also a cache near New Castle but the fifth stage was missing and that was the one where you found out how to use the clues. So we didn't get to find the final. But this one had all its stages either near a cemetery or where someone had died strangely. Oh, and one more we did, called BabyDoll Rooftop, near Knox, PA. This one is an old shack where a wedding dress is sometimes hanging in the window and sometimes on the ground. There are dolls on the roof of the shack and some standing guard on the trail to the shack. This one could really be spooky at night.

Yes, you mean Centralia, PA. I was just there over Labor Day weekend. It was a really cool place to see the steam coming right up out of the ground. We were there on a sunny warm day and it waasn't too spooky, just kinda sad. There aren't many houses, just a few, but streets leading to nowhere. I don't know how to add a picture or I could add a couple.

I am glad to see your response wareagle59. I for one, am happy to hear that you will be re-distributing all of the TBs in the near future. I think what upset me the most was when you seemed to be taunting Toolson with the postings on the cache page. I do not know him/her nor do I know you, but he did seem to have a legitimate complaint and the taunting type notes just seemed to add more crecedence to his story.

Yeah, I emailed one of the TB owners and told her about the situation. She was happy that I alerted her. She is going to let me know if he replies to her.

I didn't think of him keeping them in his house and not actually in the physical cache. That's even worse!!! It seems like there are 2 different people who are logging the TB's into this cache from looking at the TB's pages. Toolson, have you been to the actual cache?

Gee, I'm going to Florida in Nov, but I'm flying. Do you think they could land somewhere close so I can do a quick rescue? Is there anyone from the area that could do the rescue and then place the TBs in other caches without logging them in. Then someone can grab them. At least then this guy can't track it back to whoever was the rescuer? Would this work?

I live too far away also, but I agree that this is just wrong to do to the owners of those trackables. I have only put out a couple of trackables and they both went missing quickly. One after only 2 moves and 1 after the initial placement. But I love to move trackables, my husband and I moved probably 5 or 6 last weekend. We also were able to pick up 4 or 5 new ones and we'll be moving them this weekend. I love to watch where trackables I've had in my possession for a little while were moved. We've even picked one trackable up twice in different areas and many months apart. I so badly want to make a rescue mission and get these little guys moving again, but Pa to Mississippi is just not a weekend trip.

Hey, I have a 20something pound Chihuahua too. His name is Brutis and he is certainly a big boy. Sometimes a big pain, but not really a peeve either.

Not a family member, but a couple of months after we started caching last summer (2010), a former babysitter of my children sent me a facebook message that she was a geocacher also. We hadn't seen her in quite a few years. My oldest son is in him mid 30's. We've talked about going out together sometime, but hasn't worked out yet.

Looks like I've got a few more to check out near Halloween. The Baby Doll cache isn't too far from our cabin. The cache page for the Cry Baby is a bit ambiguous though. The cache owner didn't even bother to explain WHY the area is known by that name. He just put a blurb about how "the locals know why". Well...I'm not local and I want to know WHY! Sheesh. I don't know the exact story about Cry Baby, but supposedly twins are buried in the cemetery, but they are separated and they cry for each other on foggy nights.

We did this one last fall, I didn't sense any haunting, but it is a cool place - Baby Doll Rooftop GC20K51 This one is nearby - Cry Baby - GC26J3J

My family group is called the "Lucky Ducks of Seneca" and we put out rubber ducks as swag in anything big enough to hold them, so I would love to find a rubber ducky themed cache. I get my ducks online and try and get different ones each time I order.

I'll take that book, I always wanted to learn speed reading anyway. I will leave the hairball my cat just yakked up.

I agree, I can only see the worldwide ones since I have nothing "near me", but the ones I see are not anything I would consider a "challenge." Taking pictures of your favorite beer, an animal sleeping has nothing to do with geocaching.

Pennsylvania has 24,899 as of 3:25 PM today

Aaahhh, I'm an old softy. I got all misty eyed on this. What a great surprise and what a great guy to plan this all out. Congrats and best wishes for a wonderful future.

I have a clear one of these that I use to log mileage of our caching adventures. They aren't too expensive, but after having my first coin go missing after it's first move last year, I'm leary of releasing anything else right now.

Steellord, those are awesome! I don't think we've found any sig items that are cool like the ones I've seen posted here. Mostly just cards and such. We are now leaving beaded keychains with a Lucky Duck charm at the end. I haven't taken any pics to add. But will try and do so soon.

We had been leaving rubber ducks bought by the 100's, but now we've been making some keychains, I guess you could call them. We add beads and a silver duck charm. I think they are costing us about 75 cents each to make. We package them in those little baggies with an insert with our group name and each individual name. Our 5 year old granddaughter is the usual swag taker. She loves plastic horses, colorful rocks and of course coins of any denomination.