BRTango

Good Luck. You will need it because there is almost no chance someone will take it there, at least not in the near future. Quite a few cachers move back in forth to the region, and there are many cachers in country. It is quite possible. Military Association of Geocachers have some members in country at the moment.

If you verify that it is truly gone, I'd recommend organizing an event cache to lament the demise of your bug. Something with a funeral theme, have a big cake with a headstone on it... invite others to give eulogies about thier lost TBs. Then use the event to launch a new travel bug to replace the old.

I have a couple of bugs I've been meaning to send that way as well. Haven't made much effort to do so yet though. However... my laziness aside, I'd recomend checking with the folks over at the Military Association of Geocachers. There are several members over in the sandbox at the moment and can probably give your bug an assist.

I had a coin for about 2 weeks and misplaced it. I was trying very hard to find it so I could move it along, when I got a nasty email from the owner accusing me of stealing it. I stopped looking after that. Came across it when cleaning out a drawer and finally moved it along after about 7 months. I'm not happy that I held onto it for that length of time. But after the nasty gram I got from the owner, I no longer cared. Had they sent me a polite email asking me about it, instead of accusing me of stealing it, I'd have kept looking and probably moved it along much sooner.

In ten years Groundspeak will have taken over the United Nations and geocaching will be what runs the world. If you need milk, you better be FTF on that new "Cloned Cow" cache set up by Koffi_Anan33. Wars will be fought between geocaching, Waymarking, Wherigo factions. Smaller conflicts will be fought amongst the various tribal factions within these communities. Nano and Micro LPC clans will fight with Letterbox Hybrid clans; mystery clans will fight against multi-clans (those will be longer and more drawn out due to having to puzzle defenses that have to be solved in order to find the battleground, and the fact that once your at the battleground, you'll just get coords for the next leg of the battle). The mail system will be completely defunct. If you want to send mail, packages, etc... they have to be trackable by GC.com, and be moved from cache to cache. It may take years for those flowers you ordered for your mom's birthday to arrive... unless Stargate caches drop the 500 mile limit requirement. During all of this... World Emporer Jeremy the Great (self titled), will be sitting behind his desk (imagine Montgomery C. Burns here) constantly saying "Eeeexxxcelent"

I just saw the Garmin Colorado and all I can say is <little boy jumping up and down voice> I WANT IT!!!! I WANT IT!!!!.... THAT'S SO COOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!! PLEASE MOM!!!! PLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEAAAAAAASSSSSSEEEEE!!!!! </little boy jumping up and down voice> But for now I'll have to stick with my Garmin GPSMap 60CSX. Great GPSr all around.

According to my stats, I should hit 1000 sometime around June 2018. I'm 36 now... will be 46 then... so I don't I'll win.

Looks like this took the place of the hybrid sat view / roads. Or am I missing something.

Calling other geocachers "Cheaters" is a bold statement. Define "Cheating"!!

That's a bad analogy. Other people are affected by counterfitting.I'd promised myself to stay out of this thread, but this is actually a *good* analogy. If something is rare it is worth more. If you're the only one in the world with $1000, then using that money you can buy more than anyone else can. If someone starts printing $1000 bills in his basement and handing them to everyone, then your $1000 in the bank suddenly becomes worth much less. Relating the analogy to cache finds, if you're the only person in the world with 1000 finds, aquired after years of work trudging up mountains, wading through swamps, and solving mind-numbing puzzles, then you have a right some pride in that number. Other cachers have respect for that number. If people can now aquire 1000 "finds" after a few months of park-n-grabs and attending events, then your pre-existing 1000 finds is worth much less. The cacher who aquired the finds the hard way LOST a lot of perceived respect. That's what people are complaining about. But I thought the whole argument for hiding the find count was that the numbers were meaningless to anyone other than the individual. Therefore, no respect has been gained or lost regardless of who has found how many and of what type of cache or whether or not the number is shown or hidden.

Actually, they have those in the cemetaries too. Geocaches with Llama's in them?

geocaches?

I celebrated Hanami in a Cemetary under the Cherry Trees Then I stand by my Llama theory!!

A Cherry Tree

A llama?

N 35° 42.800 E 139° 46.450

Gardens

Yes, each placed and retrieved is counted as a stop. In Google Earth they are generally off by a bit, so it can appear confusing. Some people avoid this by simply deleting the retrieved logs. I've also heard of some people who can edit the kml file on the fly to eleminate the retrieved logs.

With Google Earth Pro ($20 a year) you can download your tracks directly into GE. You can also get software (GPSync from Google) that can sync your track log with digital photos from your camera and show them at the appropriate locations along your track in Google Earth.

I grew up calling them Pluggers... still do except here in the forums. PLGR: AN/PSN-11 Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR)

I can't remember the first time I heard of Geocaching... when it really came into my conciousness a few years ago, I seem to have already known what it was. I'm sure I had heard about it on an episode of Law and Order, but even then had an idea of what it was. So I'm guessing that I had come across it on the web somewhere and at some point had read what it was, then stuck it in the back of my mind as something that I was not equipped to do. In 2005, I was working with a guy who was all about geocaching. Suddenly it was back in the forefront of my mind and I bought a GPSr the next day. Headed out a couple of days in a row and came back unsuccessful yet undettered. Headed out and found my first cache the third day. Didn't much care for the GPSr that I had, so I took ordered a new one and took the other back to the store when that one arrived. I've been hooked ever since.

I have been using attributes... never done that before. I'm not using home coords though. I've got it based on zip.

I'm getting ready to head out and do some caching since it's great weather today. However, the PQ's are acting kinda funny. Here's what the results show when I preview them: PQ Name:.....Total Records......caches shown in Preview.....Caches Downloaded in GPX Annapolis..............23..........................13...........................................13 Rockville..............139..........................75...........................................65

Yes, they are both illegal in the US, according to Wikipedia. Some 1930's era law that said you can't put non-food items into, well, food items. I'm sure it was originally meant to keep antifreeze out of whiskey and cardboard out of ground beef, but bureaucrats have applied it to Kinder Eggs as well. Stupid, I know*... however, I might make a road trip to Canada someday. *Of course, in todays (US) litigious society, some kid would probably swallow the toy in one and dimwit Mommy would sue everyone on the planet. When I was stationed in Germany, the PX and Commisary stopped carry Kinder Eggs because of that very reason. Some kid swallowed a small toy. AAFES didn't want the liability so they stopped carrying them all together. I have a German friend here in the States. Whenever she goes home to visit her family, she brings me back bunches of kinder eggs. I have a collection of the toys on my desk here at work

I've always liked the "Arboreal Numerologist" line. Muggle: Excuse me... what are you doing? Me: I'm an Arboreal Numerologist... I'm counting the trees. 1... 2... 3... 4... 5.... I've never had a chance to use it as I've never been approached while I was on the hunt... but, I always thought it would be fun