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Another thing I tend to do is take a photo of the Geocache with all of the travellers I'm carrying at the time. I 'visit' them all in as I go, write a story and upload photos of the mob.

http://img.geocaching.com/track/log/large/7e4a54ba-fd02-4598-85e4-0e1c8e409715.jpg Another shot I took at a cache now sadly disabled (always made me laugh this sign)

Here's one I took of a traveller I picked up Baby Aiden - I have to say I get a kick out of taking photos with the travellers - sometimes it is hard to get a good shot, but every now and then you get a classic one like this!

Gee, I thought I was doing ok having 39 actively out there!

I like to take Travelbugs with me when I Geocache and will visit them into interesting caches, take their photo, write a story, etc. I do this to get some distance up on those bugs, add to their story (because don't forget, once you release a travel bug, you are asking other people to add their spin to your bugs story and that is out of your control and I think part of the fun!). I also like to try and drop those travel bugs somewhere along the path to reaching their destination, or in a cache that will accommodate the bug or in a cache that I feel is 'safe' for the bug or even just in an interesting cache and in the meantime, rather than have nothing happen I log visits for that bug, which shows the owner it is still in the game.

:laughing: crying with laughter! We really are insane, aren't we! But we do this all the time! Often times I'm sitting there in the middle of the bush with some weird contraption (the last one being a metre long hyperdermic syringe!) and wondering what any passing muggle would think if they happened upon me at that instant.... :blink:

Because it's fun! Remember; it's a game!

My first one was found by reading the description and figuring out a rough location (within a few hundred metres or so!) and then doing a big expanding search (this was before we got a GPS and before the smart phone app!). Well we finally made the find, which was a medium sized container under a bush near a lookout, overlooking the Murray River in South Australia; a fantastic location and a glorious find! Anyway, we went on to make many more GPS free finds, before I dug out my old Garmin and we'd drive around with that hanging out the window somehow finding caches and then the smartphone app came along and its all too easy now! Of course I've got a shiny new Magellan too and heading to my 800th find (and we still laugh at all the finds we made without a GPS!) (we even used the navigational marker of a dead bunny as a clue to find a cache!)

I love hiking and I love travelling and I love exploring new places; add Geoaching to that and you have a (polygamous...) marriage made in heaven!

Remember that this is a game that everyone plays their own way? I log my own Geocaches just before I archive them and I do that because I like to see that smiley face marked on the map and I also have the advantage (*and amusement... ) of sending out one of the non active members of the jmandea on patrol team to make the find.... since starting up this fun sport we've all ended up living in different cities, so going by THE RULES it would not be unusual for a jmandea on patrol member to have great difficulty in finding a jmandea on patrol geocache (watched by a sniggering jmandea on patrol team mate...) :blink: Anyway, logging a FTF on your own cache would be tacky IMHO, but logging your own cache before archiving or moving on; why not? It's not as if we are getting paid for each Geocache we find, is it?

no waaaay! On December 27 2010, we too found our first cache!!!!! and from that moment on; hooked

Trackables are not Swappables, so you can take them without leaving anything behind. The person leaving the Signature items is just doing what so many other people do and that is leave behind a signature item they have made. I understand that a lot of people really enjoy collecting other people's Signature items and some of them are quite highly sought after. So my advice is to keep in mind that Trackables and Signature Items are two completely different issues and if you don't collect Signature items, just leave them behind. I would assume the person likes to leave them behind in a Cache they have enjoyed or if they take a Trackable; no problemo!

I think Vivian is a splendid and unique name for her! Why don't you get a trackable tag for her collar, then everyone who meets her can log that they have seen Vivian!

Going for FTF means you have a greater chance of meeting a bunch of other frazzled and laughing geocachers, as you all converge at the GZ in various forms of dissarray; a mini event to be sure!

I like my TBs being visited; it shows they are still in the game. I personally visit other people's TBs into many of the caches I visit and more often than not I have a story and the odd photo to add as well. I like to look at the map of where a TB has been, as that pictorally shows the interesting path all of our TBs take on their journies! I think surely this is interesting, irrespective of a wordy log note?

Well, he's not really geocaching then, is he? I mean, sitting in a car nearby to someone who is off geocaching doesn't really count!

I quite often place TBs in my own caches after grabbing them on my many interstate (or overseas) trips; I deliberately placed a few safe and large Geocaches in areas that see quite a few people, but aren't likely to be muggled and it is most convenient for me to do this. I would think that as long as those travellers are travelling, there is absolutely no problem with what you are doing.

Good Grief! So how will you go about enforcing those "shoulds"? I would think that if you would rather your TB does not go a visiting, then a polite email to whoever is visiting your TB around the place asking them to drop it is as far as you should go....otherwise you risk offending someone who thought they were doing the right thing. Calling someone who is thinking of your TB and getting miles up on it through visits before they finally drop it off, writing the odd story about its journey, dropping the odd photo and demonstrating that it is still in circulation is not "rude" at all!

I returned about 3 weeks ago from overseas and used my iPhone for geocaching; I turned off the Data Roaming and pre-loaded all the GPS' in the regions I was going to visit through use of Pocket Queries. Worked a treat and I got in quite a bit of caching all around Ireland and the UK! I saved all my logs etc on the phone to upload once I got back into wireless range, which was easy to find; so many pubs, cafes and hotels have free wireless; we'd often walk along watching the phone until a wireless hotspot popped up and then we chose our cafe or pub by that! Enjoy your trip and the geocaching!

I attended a memorial service, thought about all those who served and still served and then a few hours later I found 1 cache on 11.11.11 and left a Poppy and a "Lest We Forget". I really liked the 11.11.11 Geocoin too!

There is no "should" - just play the game and enjoy it and while you're at it, you have the opportunity to help other people play their game! I like my bugs being "visited" for a while, as it gets miles up and shows the interesting places people geocache! After a bunch of visits the bug is then dropped off and away it goes with the next geocacher! I love the "visit" option and use it all the time, with a combination of just plain old visits plus a story and photos among it all.

I once picked up a TB that had completed its mission, so I emailled the owners to ask what they wanted me to do with it. I found out they lived only 2 hours away and that I drove regularly through their town on the way to visit our property! So we arranged for me to drop it off to them on the way; that was fun being able to do that, but I would think it rare that many TBs return 'home' so easily!

it's just a word.

I add photos later, after I get home and upload them and I also add photos to travellers that I have 'visited' into caches; not every time of course, but I do like to go back and enhance my logs when I have the time. I don't do it for the accolades, I do it because I enjoy showing where I have taken a traveller and I know I enjoy looking at photos that others have put up. I have had quite a few people email me to say thanks for the story and photos, which is really nice, but I dont get upset if I don't get a response.

I hold them a bit longer if I can help them towards their goal or if I'm going to be going somewhere the TB has not yet been. I let the owner know in the log, or in an email if I'm going to hold it for longer and I also 'visit' it into other caches I'm finding to keep it moving and gathering distance while waiting to do the big trip. I think it's fun to collect a heap of travellers before going on an overseas or interstate trip, as you can then drop them off somewhere interesting and spread the joy!