Gumbys4eva

Mrs. B: What an interesting idea of attaching a TB to a postcard. I was checking out the photos of this trackable and it looks like you laminated the TB to the postcard. How do you read the TB number? I would like to try sending one of these out into the world too.

Yes, please, Sparky, as I am headed to Vegas in three weeks and plan on doing the same thing. I have a few TBs to drop off somewhere out there too and I've noticed that many of the caches in Vegas are micros. I'm also headed to the Grand Canyon if anyone can make suggestions for caching in that area too.

I had a TB in a race and it went missing from a very well visited cache. What I did was email each of the cachers who had logged the cache from a couple of days before my trackable was placed in the cache (in case the cacher who placed it there actually had the date wrong) until the date I had heard that the TB was not in the cache. This narrowed it down to about 10 cachers. Most of them got back to me saying that they had seen the TB or hadn't noticed if it was in the cache or not. However, one very experienced cacher replied thanking me for reminding him that he had picked up my TB while on vacation. My TB is still traveling (oops, hope I haven't jinxed it!) I also tried this with another TB and received only one reply, so it doesn't always work but is worth a try.

I've also heard not to use clean peanut butter jars as caches. The scent still lingers in the clean jars and attracts bears. Not such a problem in the city, but out in the woods . . .

This isn't my travel bug TB493ZC, but my daughter took it to Argentina a year ago and placed it in a cache (under my geocaching name). It was picked up by newbies and nothing happened to it, although the cachers who picked it up were still caching. No idea what happened to it, but it has moved about 100 km. I'm sure the owner must be pleased.

Once, while looking for a cache on an overpass, a woman stopped to ask if I was alright. She must have been watching me for a while as I walked back and forth, trying to find the cache (which ended up being a nano under a light standard). I then realized that she thought I was going to jump off the overpass. I told her I was fine and actually on a scavenger hunt and was looking for the next clue. She seemed to accept my answer and moved on. Kind of nice of her to stop and inquire about my well being, though.

Thanks, Schnuz. I have no idea how to do that but I do appreciate your response. Have started researching new GPS's and am both excited and confused!

Thanks for your advice. I ended up phoning Garmin and it looks like my GPS is toast. I'd be better off buying a new one. Any suggestions?

I'm trying to fill in my caching calendar and need caches for today and tomorrow. Went to put a few into my Garmin Dakota 20 and noticed that it won't turn on. Changed the batteries, still nothing. Anyone have any ideas? I've only had it for 2 years. If it has indeed died, any recommendations for a new one? I'm really enjoying this activity and have no problem upgrading.

It took me 1 1/2 years to notice how to decrypt the logs. Click on "View Log Book" in the Logged Visits area above the actual logs. Then, on that page on the right hand side, you will see "Decrypt". Click on that and you can read all the logs.

And here I thought that "spelt" was merely a type of flour! I just learned that it can also be the past tense of "spell". I thought that was "spelled" but I looked it up and "spelt" works too. Learn something everyday.

There is one memorial cache that I know of. It wasn't originally set up that way but the FTF had an accident on his way back to his vehicle and died. The cache was renamed "Chuck's Last First" (GC3PXG1) to honour the cacher. I gather he was well known to the caching community. I believe his family was fine with the cache being in his name too.

I guess I'm the only one that thinks this is a terrible idea. As a parent, if one of my children picked up one of these and read it, I would be quite upset. With all the "bullying awareness" going on in my country after a few teens have taken their lives recently due to being bullied, I think this simply adds fuel to the fire. "It was supposed to be funny" but it seldom is for the child that the insult is aimed at. Yes, the star "craft" seems unique and imaginative, but do you think you could write something else in it?

Just wondering if you have even decided on this since you asked almost 3 months ago???

I'm in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and would be happy to release one for you!

I'm in Toronto, Canada and would be happy to release one into the wild here!

There was one near my house that only lasted a couple of weeks. It was in a very small parkette with trees and flowers, surrounded by 3 streets. The cache was a PVC pipe, about 8 inches long, capped on both ends and zipped tied to a lamp post in a pretty ritzy area. One day, the geopup and I were driving home from caching and I heard on the radio of a road closure due to a potential pipe bomb. Yup, it was the cache. I actually called 911 when I got home and told them it was a geocache, but I was too late, they had already blown it up. It was announced on the news that the "pipe bomb" was actually a geocache. The poor kid who had hidden it arrived home from school to find his inbox full of emails pertaining to his cache. It wasn't so much as a bad location for a cache (the parkette) as it was a bad container and in full view.

Go to the geocaching home page and click on "Play" then "Hide and Seek a Cache". Scroll down until you get to "Other Search Options". In "By Cache Name" type in "Girl Scout" (without the quotation marks) and hit GO. It will come up with a whole bunch of girl scout caches. I'm not sure if you will have to scroll through them to see if there are any near you, but if you really want, it's worth a try. Hope this helps.

Thanks to StarBrand and NYPaddleCatcher for pointing the maps out to me. I can't believe I've never notice that before! You learn something new everyday.

"No but there is still a link to the Google Map. Just as fast as clicking the "dynamic map" button that is now gone." Starbrand: Where is this link to the Google Map? Or am I simply blind? I miss my maps!

I have a "Making Tracks" travel bug with a 23 in the code. Email me if you are still need it.

I've had my Garmin Dakota 20 for about a year and am still learning the ins and outs of it. I would like to download some maps to it so that I have something other than the basic one that it came with (which really only shows highways). I've looked through these topics and in the manual, but can't find anything about it. In the meantime, I'm printing maps as I go. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

I hate when that happens too. You go to a cache, and no trackable is there. However, last week I found a cache that had a TB that hadn't been logged in over 2 years! It didn't even say that it was in the cache. Happy Days! The TB owner was pleased too.

Me too!

I've never been in a TB race before, although I have helped a couple of TBs continue on their ways. How does it work? Do we buy a TB and send it to you to put in the "starting" cache? Or do we need to live in the city where the race begins? Sounds like fun.