Lizzy
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For what it's worth, entering code 550807 in Motel6.com's "CorporatePlus/ID Number" field drops the price to $53.39 per night. Whether it's OK to use the code, I don't know, but I did it. I found it on RetailMeNot and in the FlyerTalk forums.
Dang - forgot to check RetailMeNot...
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Motel 6 in Pendleton is $46 a night (AARP rate for two) vs. $115 at Oxford = $69 difference (more than the one night cost). I find at Cache Machines (and most other travelling) I don't spend much time in the room, except for sleeping. So a bed & bathroom is all we need. We've always found Motel 6 to be clean and comfortable (now I could tell you about a 5 star hotel in Suzhou, China where the carpet on the floor was softer than the bed, but that's for another time).
But I agree, when I have time to spend in a room, a little extra is nice.
What Craig said.
I just booked the Motel 6 in Hermiston for $54 a night (AARP rate); that's the one Travis mentioned.Money's tight - We will have to book Motel 6, but the Oxford would've been really nice. I will still try my best to Priceline bid another
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I need my Pilot Butte log reinstated. CO says for me to read thru the logs to see why (I was polite in all emails & asked him where I errored on the ALR).
Not knowing if it's the case or not, my guess is that your "Found it" log and your e-mail to the CO weren't sent near-simultaneously. The CO for this virt didn't want to sift through logs and e-mails sent days apart trying to match them up, and also didn't want to accept e-mailed answers for groups.
One e-mailed answer per log, close in time, is the way he wanted to accept finds.
It's archived now, along with his other three virts, so the point is mostly moot, except for the handful of people who have yet to log valid finds.
Thanks Travis. I emailed the required info about 2 minutes prior to logging the find. 2 minutes - maybe 3. This was a couple of days ago. My cache log date was the Saturday of the cache machine - logged on the 8th of October when I finally had a chance to get all of these logged. Still would like GC to step in, just on principle.
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Might want to double check your found logs along the BCM as some geocache owners have been deleting logs due to ALR's.
Yeah, I'm having a pissing contest with GeoKnievel. Since ALR's on Traditions are illegal he does not have much to argue. I see he archived three of his caches. Well, so be it. Never gave a reason even though I asked. Time for the letter to Groundspeak. Sent the letter, we will see what happens.
My logs were re-instated by Groundspeak.
Who did you email? I could dig for the answer, but it is easier to ask. I need my Pilot Butte log reinstated. CO says for me to read thru the logs to see why (I was polite in all emails & asked him where I errored on the ALR). I refuse to accept the whole, I needed to walk up there thing, as that is not what is required on the cache page, but I never mentioned that in any logs/emails. I'm determined to log this one, based on principle!
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I see you are focusing on city caches. Looking forward to this cache machine. Just thought I'd add my thoughts. I absolute LOVE the CM's where you have a mix of urban & rural caching, but since I've never been to Bend - this should be fun too. We will have plenty of rural on the way there
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FYI....Got a room in Motel 6 for $45.00 a night. That's good enough for me. Good news.....we will have DST by then....an extra hour to cache! Yippee!
How did you get $45/night? I was unable to get it that low when I tried. Do you have a gov't discount or something?
I just looked it up Abby and it's showing $44.99 - best available rate for single. We booked 2 beds for $53.99 for us there.
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Burlington, Sedro Wooley, LaConner, and Anacortes are all close enough (within 5-20 minutes) to check for hotel rooms too. We live close enough that we will be driving from home, but thought I'd mention those to some who are coming from far away.
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Good news: the forecast has changed a bit. Instead of temperatures in the mid 90s (as predicted three days ago), the forecast is now for the mid 80s.
Bad news: Air quality in Yakima is currently "unhealthy for sensitive groups" and in Toppenish is straight up "unhealthy". Current conditions at Zillah, Toppenish, Yakima, and Benton city all report "smoky". Some forecasts I'm seeing are listing Saturday as "smoky with sunshine mixing with some clouds." Now you know.
Just arrived - man, it is smoky
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Sunnyside Country Inn was a better overall deal all around, so I've booked a room there. I'm still hanging on to my old reservation until I check with a (local) friend about it being a safe area. When last I checked with her, she told me to avoid staying in Toppenish (sorry Lookout Lisa) - lots of gang activity.
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Anybody found any good hotel deals yet? Cheapest I'm finding for two nights at a decent place is $136.
Booked at Guesthouse International in Yakima, but at $141 for both nights before taxes. Still bidding thru Priceline to get a better deal. It's hard this time - read/heard lots of places are "scary" to stay at. I had the hardest time weeding thru Trip Advisor reviews for this area. Hoping to successfully bid lower at a nearby town.
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Last I heard, the NF people were responding to a lawsuit by getting in there & cleaning it up, which would require a new road in to bring in the machinery. Now the people that sued to get the NF to clean this up are again going to court to prevent the NF from building this new road. Go figure. Of course, this is all rumor, but - if it's true??! WTH?
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FWIW, I know it's your challenge, meaning you can define it your way, but I always wondered if the methodology is a bit passe' and needlessly strict+complicated nowadays: At a minimum, it sure has always seemed labor-intensive for you based on my reading. I wonder if some tweaks in the rules might keep the fun and remove the pain/time.
The following are just some thoughts that leap to mind:
- you require registering before starting. Seems a bit onorous to the user, and painful for you to keep track of for no particularly good reason I can think of.
- you require folks to update in a note (add a note, not edit a note) as they proceed county by county. That's a pain for us as seekers, and it has to be a pain for you to read. I can see how periodic updates in a relatively long-time-to-complete challenge would provide you as the owner nice feedback that folks still are working on it, but that might be doable with 'requesting' rather than 'requiring' folks to update things periodically. I suspect enough folks would do so that you'd still know folks are interested in this one.
- proving validity of eligibility can now be done by a GSAK macro. I can think of at least two macros that would do the job. I do that with my Blanche's Blackout Challenge. If folks would work that hard to falsely claim they've found a cache placed on all 366 days of the year, I'm not going to worry it as the hider.
- the cache could of course be moved off private property, or to some other cooperating cacher's property if that's the big problem
- and you could of course always publish the final location if requests were driving you crazy (incidentally, thank you for answering my email last year regarding which county the final is in, helped lots in confirming I wanted to do it)
The majority of the rules were to prevent armchair logging or to help highlight notification. It needed to be a real "challenge" to me, not just another blip on the GC map, but a blip you needed to earn. And I reaaalllllyyy disliked the whole "community owned" mentality that kept creeping into forum comments. It was gratifying for the most part to maintain, but my priorities are shifting and Fluteface is a great cache owner & will take care of it better than I did.
- you require registering before starting. Seems a bit onorous to the user, and painful for you to keep track of for no particularly good reason I can think of.
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I want to thank you all for the kind words. It is gratifying to know that the challenge was well thought of. Happily, an awesome cacher has stepped up to adopt my "baby" and I know it is in great hands. Thank you Fluteface! Now, I can get busy with finishing the challenge, but first...I have to submit my qualifying finds.
Oh no! Some may no longer qualify -
Well, after speaking with one awesome cacher today - I may have an adoptee for this one. Stay tuned...
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Perhaps you could put it up for adoption and the cache location can change. In this case, I think the experience is the challenge, not the cache location.
If I was owner, I'd change the rules a little including making the final location visible, but that's me.
Either way, I hope if not you, someone makes a new County Challenge because I think its the easiest and greatest idea for a statewide challenge we have and you have done a nice job on it over the years. Yes, there is the Delorme challenge, but the County is nice that folks can more easily visualize the boundaries vs require a GSAK grid (which Jon does a great job updating all those maps all the time of course).
Either way, wanted to say thanks for all the work you have done on this challenge over the years.
You need to start one Lamoracke!
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I've been thinking about this for a while now. This cache, along with a few bookmark lists of mine, have become increasingly more demanding/time consuming to maintain. Along with constant requests for pre-verification & demands (that's right - demands) for final coords, it has become stressful to continue maintaining this as it was set up. I would put this up for adoption, but the cache is located on private property.
My hope is that someone steps up & starts their own County Challenge (and maybe I can partipate
). It's days are numbered. I will most likely archive this by the end of October. No nasty remarks please - after all, it is not a community owned cache. If anyone wants the cache container/contents for their own county challenge, at that time, please let me know & it's yours. No, this is not geo-suicide - no drama here. -
Just a heads up if anyone is interested. Maintaining some of my bookmark lists have become quite time consuming, with micros being placed under every lamppost skirt on the planet & every cup hook screwed into trees in the woods, etc. The bookmark lists for Whidbey, Fidalgo, and Camano Island will soon be deleted (mid September), along with the Mountain Loop list. Someone else hopefully will generate new public bookmarks lists for these & maintain them by then. No, this is not some sort of geo-suicide. My priorities are just shifting a bit.
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I just happened to be at Tillicum Inn in Umatilla that evening (south of Tri-cities in Oregon) - $60 rate for queen. I was unaware of an event going on nearby, now I'll have to look
Keep trying on Priceline - lower bid acceptance sometimes goes thru the closer you get to the date. Get an alternate reservation(refundable) set up now though, just in case. -
Out running around doing cache maintenance today & ran across a GPS left on top of one of my caches. If you are missing your GPS, contact me. I think I have a way of verifying it's yours. Next time - PLEASE ETCH YOUR INFO ON THE CASE SOMEWHERE!!!!
Or put it in the startup splash screen. Garmins can, not sure about the others.
I think there was an owner page somewhere in the old Magellans, but it did not show up at start. I don't know about the new ones.
Mine has that start-up page, where I have my phone number. This one is a different Garmin - could not find a startup page. Was able to contact the last one who logged the cache where it was found and able to verify ownership thru custom routes they had in their gadget (thank God for that). We're now figuring out how to get together to exchange it.
So - OWNER HAS BEEN CONTACTED
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Out running around doing cache maintenance today & ran across a GPS left on top of one of my caches. If you are missing your GPS, contact me. I think I have a way of verifying it's yours. Next time - PLEASE ETCH YOUR INFO ON THE CASE SOMEWHERE!!!!
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I looked up a user route in the create/edit route section. I found one similar to what I was looking for and went to click on the "modify route" to adjust it for my needs. Unfortunately, the link is not there. It appears to be a link, but nothing...
Here is the location: create/edit route
Just sayin'
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Subarus are nice but the cost for repairs - ouch. Pricetag = ouch. Honda's run forever with minimal repair problems. I already miss my Hyundai Santa Fe
& it was INCREDIBLE on mountain roads - like....Ruby Grade. A small sized Pickup with a nice weather-tight shell might do the trick. Be smart - don't buy new!! -
So glad you're ok Jester. Wow, incredibly scary & just reading the story made me anxious.
I just booked the Motel 6 in Hermiston for $54 a night (AARP rate); that's the one Travis mentioned.
Our AARP rate for 2 is $59 online for Motel 6.
Watched the NWCN & they're now predicting wind patterns out of the south, which should start clearing more of it out. 
Oh no! Some may no longer qualify
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There will be a lot of us at the Salem Cache Machine this coming Saturday. You're bound to run into someone at the event that can possibly help.