Cindyj2

Oh and thanks about the micro for our first find. I've lived here my whole life and so I really knew the place and from reading lots of the logs it took us a few min to find. lol

NicknPapa thank you so very much for looking for me!!!! I really appreciate it! Yah the Long Nine is the closest for us. So glad I learned another new thing about the icons! I'll definately keep the software on the lappy and i'll stick with the free membership and get me some hiking shoes instead! lol Thanks for the advice too about keeping Matthew interested over the winter and next week when we take my dad to a routine doc visit we'll have about an 1 1/2 to kill so i'll have to get loading and printing. I also am our Cub Scout packs award chair and just haven't had a chance with a knowledgable person to even ask yet about geocaching and plus we have plenty of time as my son is a Web 1. Thanks again for the help!

Oh boy still so much to learn! Thank you about the snowflake icon as I had never noticed it and it took me a minute to find that. lol I'll probably keep the software on the computer since I already put it on there that way it's there if I do need it but I was wondering if there was some part of the process that I was missing. Also I thought I read on a post that someone, long story short had a problem with a cacher so she made her cache a premium cache? I looked on her profile for it and it wouldn't let me see it? So i'm wondering is there significant amount of premium caches in our area that we could be missing out on? And were all those stats and graphs part of the premium membership too? Thanks a Ton!

My son who is 9 and I are new to geocaching! I'm my son's den leader and I learned about geocaching while attending our local scouting university. Then I checked out the site here and posted on my facebook wall about it and got lucky that my next door neighbor popped up and said she had a gps from a year ago that she'd bought for geocaching and had barely used and that she'd sell it to me. Heck I paid her $30 for a garmin etrex venture hc. I had been scouring walmart online and ebay and some other sites. And it came with some topo maps and software for the computer as well and the fited cover for the unit. Think that was a pretty good price considering they sell for $80-$100. And she gave me a protable dvd player and some games for our old ps1 that she found while looking for the gps and she thinks she might have more maps for it as well that she'll give me if she finds them. Were gonna try to get her to go out with us one of these days too. Love my neighbors! But anyway this software on the computer I'm wondering what I need it for really? I think when I loaded caches to the gps they went straight to the gps and then if I wanted from the gps to my computer. But with everything here on the site i'm wondering why I need them on the computer too? Or is it just so that I can see all caches on a map at once? I guess I mean that the site keeps such good track do I really need to do that on my computer too? Also I'm a single mom and there are approx 460 within a 25 mile rasius of my house and with a not so great car we don't like to travel too far from home. Wondering how long it'll take us to get all those? Hoping they keeps us busy for a good while. So that being said what are the must haves in this premium membership do I need? I read about some of the features and am wondering if we really need that. Cause I don't think that's a ton of money for a whole year but with the gps that I have I can load like 500 caches and when we go somewhere I can just look on it to see if there's anything close to where we'll be going and print off the cache page and I figured we'd start notebook and save them in it to look back on someday or to check on some that we weren't able to find. So i'm just wondering what about the permium package is so awsome that in our situation we would need? I'm so glad my son likes this too! He's a webelos 1 this year but when he gets in boy scouts I believe there's a patch he can earn for geocaching! After our first few finds in the wind and cold of late fall and 1 dnf I wasn't sure he wanted to keep going till he said a week later that he wanted to go find another so we went out in our winter coats in the sprinkling rain and found another! Now here in central il were buried in about 5 inches of snow I've never wanted spring to come so fast! Hoping this gets us out of the house more often and gets us some exercise and we learn alot about the places we go! We really want to get to this one called Phooning for love! And take some funny pics for it! Still also hoping to buy a couple trackables and start a cache here in town and get my cub scout den interested in it as well but it's just too cold to get 8 boys and their parents out for this this time of the year. Thanks a ton for helping us! And thanks for reading my long post! Take care all! Cindy

My son is 9 and were new to this too! We've only found about 4 and i'm hoping this will bring us many years of fun as well! Good luck!and Have fun!

I wouldn't like to find ammo of any kind in a cashe but I think it would be a great teachable moment for my son. I you don't teach your kids they won't know right from wrong. Just my opinion. Take care ya'll!

Thanks a bunch you guys!!!!!You guys are awsome! I did see that one thread in the geocoin area about problem vendors and I wonder why since you can talk about the bad ones by name but not the good ones by name? Oh well no worries! Apparently i'm gonna have a couple months to research and find a good reputable person/dealer to buy from. With the blizzard here in central Il today it's probably gonna be a little while before we get back out. I've already got a cold. I'd hate to get my son and my Cub scout den all excited and then get scammed. So i'll probably buy them and then tell them when they get here. I think there will be an event, MOGA'11 but it's like 134 miles away so still a little too far for us unfortunately with the car that we currently have. But I would so love to go! We have about 460 geocaches within about 25 miles from here so we'll be busy for a good while with those. Maybe I should just wait till after christmas when I might have a little extra cash and just get some travel bugs. Then maybe we can set a few travel bugs out and maybe at least one of them will survive for a while. Thanks again for the help guys!

We don't need anything custom but when I started to order from here it said I needed to be a business. We live in Illinois. We were gonna go with the boy scout coing and maybe one of those Loch ness tags. So can I order from here? And I wonder how long it takes to get the items if we can. Thanks a bunch!

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I'm not sure where to post this as I went to the geocoin area and there are places for trades and places for people having problems with vendors and such. And posts for people selling so I didn't know if I could post there. So I was kinda wondering if somebody could point me in the direction of a good vender since there looks tobe some not so good ones. Was gonna buy a couple from Groundspeak but it looked like I had to be a company to buy them. Ugh I was confused. I'm a divorced mom and my son and I are new to geocaching my longtime neighbor sold me her garmin etrex venture hc as she'd never really used it for a great price. My son and I just found I think it was our 4th today. We were wanting to get a coin and possibly start a geocache of our own. And I'm a Webelos den leader and we were also wanting to get a geocoin or two for that. We were just kinda wanting to stay below $15 with the shipping for 2-3 neat little geocoins. thanks for the help! Cindy OOPS I meant geocoins in the title!

You all have such cute pets! My son and I are new to geocaching so this is my first of probably many posts to the forums. This is our persian cat Blackberry. She the wild one! This is our other persian cat Mick. He's the loud one! He had just had his lion cut. And this is Buster who is a pug/boston terrier mis and is 10.