Famagee

So, my family helps keep up a cemetary. We moved here a couple of months ago and have been meaning to hit some caches but haven't yet. Anyhow, so, while cleaning up debris from this weeks storms in Illinois, my mother pulls out a container and my husband looks over and goes hey you found your first geocache (she doesn't get it haha). Anyhow, there is not geocache listed within ten miles of our house. This one is less than a mile from it. I put in coordinates online it is not listed. It is in good shape, has a log signed by a lot of people. Just not sure what to do with it now. I mean, is ther a way to find out if this is a retired or 'lost' cache? Is there a way to replace it or to find out who the original owner was?

We are always travelling all over we have friends in Lochbuie and Thornton and my in laws live in Sugar city. So we are thinking when we travel down we will break up that long long trip with a little bit of caching. Should be interesting. My inlaws also own land up in Bailey. So we go all over eastern Colorado on a pretty regular basis. Don't know if we are up for climbing that high yet. (I am from CT Mountain roads scare the heck out of me. And I am petrified of heights). So we aren't that brave yet. But, my son has been gung ho to do this. He loves when people put the clues in a code. even though I know I can push a button and read it, I don't tell him. i let him figure it out. The kids take turns signing the logs. Our Garmin for our car pops up caches when they are nearby sometimes but no all the time so it is strange. Can't figure that part out. But we have a handheld etrex also for caching. We have a few that we are looking to do locally and are excited because we found about five of them up in the area of missouri and Illinois we will be at in September. We are thinking perhaps of trying to figure out where we will be about 10 hours into our drive and stopping for a cache or two and on the way back it will light so we are going to try to pull our route and make a cache in every state on the way back. Fingers crossed we can do it. Yeah I am pretty bored with teh light poles but the kids think they are great. We were going to go hit a good big one a little bit of a walk in a park, but there was something huge going on in the park and we said um yeah not a good day to be stealthy. can you be stealthy with about 1000 people around? I am thinking no. But, if you guys are ever coming down this way please shoot me a line and let me know. i saw the post about the mardi gras thing. I am going to talk to my hubby tomorrow about maybe going up for that. We know that area cuz of the inlaws land. Never really thought of checking for caches. ) Could make for a great family day! And being able to meet other cachers would be great!

So, my son, who is high functioning autistic and our family have started geocaching. we started doing research about a year ago. We have found about 11 in two weekends (we have finally been able to work out some weekends). So, the problems that we have been having are probably normal ones of not knowing what we are looking for. Not knowing anyone else that does this. I think a little advice from others in the area or maybe a mutual geocache trip between us would be great for tips. So far the ones in the light poles have been our easiest finds. we found one in a tree. and a couple under trees. But, we are still kind of trying to learn how to do this and to do it right. how to decide if our coordinates are off or if we are standing right around it and just missing it. I would love it if we could connect with someone local that maybe could help me out. My husband isn't really really into it bugt I think when we get to the walking ones that are a little further out he might get more into it. But the kids love to clean up the area (they are 14 and 16 and believe it or not see this as a great community service thing.) Of course the find is the excitement. Currently they do ok we each fill up a bag (we have smallish bags), then we will look really hard for the cache. I think they are disappointed when the area is already clean. but, they really would love to get some tips from someone with some actual experience. So far we have done ok. We have two we haven't found. Then the next day, someone goes and finds it. We are 2 no finds and 11 finds. But they are mostly the ones in the light poles. So, I would love to connect with other locals and get some tips. Thanks! We live in Aurora. We have a pretty good trade kit and have a ready to go cache when we are ready to place our first one. We also have three travel bugs and a geocoin to get out into the mix. We are also looking for a travel bug to move to Illinois when we go there for a wedding in Illinois! So, we are hoping on one of these trips to actually find one where it says it is.

So, my son, who is high functioning autistic and our family have started geocaching. we started doing research about a year ago. We have found about 11 in two weekends (we have finally been able to work out some weekends). So, the problems that we have been having are probably normal ones of not knowing what we are looking for. Not knowing anyone else that does this. I think a little advice from others in the area or maybe a mutual geocache trip between us would be great for tips. So far the ones in the light poles have been our easiest finds. we found one in a tree. and a couple under trees. But, we are still kind of trying to learn how to do this and to do it right. how to decide if our coordinates are off or if we are standing right around it and just missing it. I would love it if we could connect with someone local that maybe could help me out. My husband isn't really really into it. But the kids love to clean up the area (they are 14 and 16 and believe it or not see this as a great community service thing.) Of course the find is the excitedment. Currently they do ok we each fill up a bag (we have smallish bags), then we will look really hard for the cache. I think they are disappointed when the area is already clean. but, they really would love to get some tips from someone with some actual experience. So far we have done ok. We have two we haven't found. Then the next day, someone goes and finds it. We are 2 no finds and 11 finds. But they are mostly the ones in the light poles. So, I would love to connect with other locals and get some tips. Thanks!