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Many places will send you a copy of your receipt/invoice. If he bought it online it should be pretty easy to get a copy. If he bought it in a store, it will depend upon the policy of the place he bought it. Best Buy, for instance, will provide you a copy of your receipt in store as long as you purchased with a credit card or check. If he would have otherwise qualified for the rebate, it's probably worth looking into.

Howdy, guys. I've got about 20 caches under my belt w/o GPS and I'm about to pull the trigger on buying my first handheld. Based upon my price range and the store from which I can purchase the unit, I've narrowed it down to the Legend C and the eXplorist 400. From what I've read, the Garmin has better auto-routing than the Magellan and the color screen is much better than the grayscale. The Magellan has unlimited memory expansion whereas the Garmin is limited to 24MB. Batteries are also different, AA vs. Li-Ion. Those seem to be the big differences between the two units, apart from personal preference. Right now the 400 is actually less expensive than the Legend C due to the rebate. For those of you familiar with both, how do the pros and cons weigh out between the two? I'll primarily be using whichever one I get for caching, but I'll be more than happy to use the bells and whistles for other purposes, also. If I have more memory, I'll use it. If I have auto-routing, I'll use it. I'm hoping to make my purchase very soon but wanted to seek the wisdom of the masters first.

Is that legal? Seems like it would be impersonating a construction worker or something. That, my friends, is high comedy.

A couple weeks ago I was walking along a jogging/biking trail on my way to a cache. The biggest bull snake I've ever seen decided to cross the trail just in front of me. I crouched down and talked to him as he paused to see what the big freak next to him (me) was doing. I heard someone back on the trail and turned around. It was a little old Japanese man who stopped his jog about 10 yards away from me, saying something about "biggest ever seen". I'm sure each of us only understood about half of what the other was saying, but what I did understand was that he had been coming here for five years and had never seen a snake that big. He was also afraid of snakes and wondered if it was poisonous. I told him a bit about the species in question, assuring him this was not a poisonous snake and that it was doing its job of keeping the field mice under control. After the snake finished crossing, the old guy felt safe continuining his jog. He turned around after he passed to say again, "Five years, biggest ever". Quite a few interesting wildlife encounters that day. Looking for the cache a few minutes later, I stumbled upon a terrestrial tortoise/terrapin in the woods eating a bird. He froze when he saw me, like he had just been busted eating something he wasn't supposed to. I'm a zoologist but I'm no herpetologist, so as soon as I got home I started Googling the eating habits of tortoises/terrapins. I'm still not sure which I saw going all carnivore on that bird. Anyway, I taught a little old Japanese man that you don't have to fear snakes. Aside from alerting me to the fact that some little old man was in better shape than I, he taught me that some little old men fear snakes. I also learned that vegetarians might try to sneak some KFC in when they think no one's looking.