Team Tecmage

I prefer to walk along carrying a couple of fluorescent bulbs.

I like the idea of using the same reverse. It's a great design and would also help keep the cost down by recycling it. We're keeping the obverse the same. Last year, the reverse was the bridge which was cut into the coin surface. I'm asking if we can find a good image for the reverse, would anyone mind if it was 3D as well.

Did we get FARK'd

We've been talking about a wagon for our oldest, so the plan is to barrow one today and see if Solana will ride to caches. Two rails to trails cache series have gone up near us, and we are either going to leave the kids with a sitter, or find a way to get Solana to sit in something for up to two mile round trip walks!

After Torry's design, I REALLY like the Wabash & Erie Canal idea! Seriously, I've started looking for a good image of a barge being pulled by a mule or horse. Something that we could possibly use as our reverse side. Anyone interested in having the reverse in 3D? It would add some more detail to the coin.

We have three coins touring Finland and two headed to Germany.

Not sure how we would handle that.

In the last three years, our team has doubled in size, and our caching activity has slowed way down. We're trying to get out more and are dealing with the challenge of a 35 month old who loves to walk (okay, who am I kidding loves to run wild) for a while- like .25 - .5 miles, but refuses to ride in a jogging stroller. Of course our 6 month old is very content to ride in a different stroller. Who else out there has small ones in tow on the trail, and how do they do?

Very nice coin!

Well, JAPTKD and I would have the same opinion as Team Neos. We would like to each get a coin (ok, so we only own about 12 coins total between the two of us right now) if there was a special Indiana metal. Would it be possible to either limit it at 2 per addy (just for the special metal) or to limit it (again, just the special metal) to one per gc account? I know - then you run the risk of sock puppets, but I'm trying to think of a compromise, so that you don't have unlimited purchases (and the rising prices), but so that husband-wife/ roommate-roommate/ significant other-significant other/ etc pairs have a chance at each getting one. I'm sure someone likely has a caching family, and could make the argument for more than 2 (thus the "one per gc account" idea). Payment addy is the easiest to work with- paypal, check or money order work well. Again we can do whatever the group wants.

Team Neos, thanks for the feedback. We can do as many LE coins as people want, one per addy, or something in between. We're kicking around ideas, and everyone that has an opinion should speak up.

Good idea. Limit one special per Indiana address. We could use addresses based on payment (money order, check, paypal). Last year, there was about a 10% difference in reservations and payments. It turns out that 10% would have sold, but payments is our most accurate method of ordering.

I also think that having one metal just for Indiana residents might be nice. I know we would buy one each for ourselves and still buy more coins in the other metal to use as swag, etc. I don't care about tracking and so forth, but I realize others do. Personally, I would like to see the price stay reasonable because I like to see them actually get put into caches for others to find. I think the big rush to collect every coin ever made is just about over anyway. I hear you guys loud and clear on costs and prices. There are plenty of coins out there selling in the $9-10 range. We produced a great coin at a great price last year. I would like to have tracking on the coin, but tracking costs $1.50/coin (minimum $750 for the coin issue), and the icon is $150. Without any changes save the year and design of the reverse, we'll probably be at last year's price- $4/coin. If we made major changes we might end up at $6-8/coin. I'm guessing partly because we haven't settled on a design, partly because Aaron and Tess are out of town and Coins and Pins no longer has their pricing online, and partly because we don't know how many coins we would order. Production costs change at 300, 500 and 1000 coins.

Rupert! Good to hear from you. Are you suggesting a series of coins? What do you think of the idea of having some limited edition metals or coins? MIGO and Texas put out two to four coins a year.

Coins and Pins minted 750 numbered coins this time last year. We didn't have tracking numbers or an icon last year. The original intent was to use this image as the obverse a few times, and change the reverse image every coin. This year's run should probably be bigger. I've gotten emails and phone calls from people wanting to buy some.

It's time to get the '06 Indiana designed and minted! Do we want to keep anything from last year's design? How about tracking numbers, an icon, and LE coins?

Count me in!

If you watch what happens on ebay, you'll see people overpaying frequently. There are coins being auctioned there that are going for more than twice the price from the seller. I agree with other posts here- if you're happy witht he trade, then that's all that matters. If you're looking to invest in some sort of collectible, then I 'd avoid geocoins.

This is a long multicache that I did while visiting England. Even though it was long, three of us did it in 1.5 hours. If you look at it, there wasn't a lot to maintain. Tracy and I have done long multis, but now that we have two little cachers (under three) we're less likely to do long multis. We have a longish one planned out, but it will only have one container to maintain. If you want to take on the challenge of maintaining a long one, I say have at it!

Looking for: Joshua Tree Wales 06 New Zealand SnowWolf Torn Mailer Mississippi Louisiana Nevada 06 Prague Arkansas Utah 06 Trading: Signal- January 06 McDoodles (Texas Spinner) MOGA 06 Fundamental and Venlis 06 Indiana Micro Gold Indiana Micro Silver Pirates of Harriman Tennessee 05 Kansas Micro

Woodbutcher68 hit it on the head! Porter County, Indiana is affluent AND one of the top three counties in the U.S. when it comes to Heorin use, yet people here want to pretend there's no problem. We have rapes, robberies and murders in Valparaiso just like other places. How much crime is directly related to high drug use hasn't been released, but it doesn't stop us from caching or taking the kids out to a park to play. BTW, in Joliet, Illinois, the police arrested seven Catholic high school students AT SCHOOL for running the largest Heorin, Coke and X ring in town! Has anyone noticed that the OP hasn't posted again? The OP also claimed in another post to carry at least one gun at all times, so I go back to a question I asked of the OP- do you feel safe anywhere?

Update Looking for: Joshua Tree POW Ontario Wales 06 New Zealand Minnesota British Columbia SnowWolf Torn Mailer Luxemburg Trading: Signal- January 06 Sunshine Gang GBA Faultline McDoodles (Texas Spinner) MOGA 06 Time Tracking Coin Compass Rose 06 had two for trading, both gone Fundamental and Venlis 06 Indiana Micro Gold

Looking for: Joshua Tree POW Ontario Wales 06 New Zealand Minnesota British Columbia SnowWolf Torn Mailer Luxenbourg Trading: Signal- January 06 Sunshine Gang GBA Faultline McDoodles (Texas Spinner) MOGA 06 Time Tracking Coin Compass Rose 06

Looking for: Joshua Tree POW Ontario Wales 06 New Zealand Minnesota British Columbia SnowWolf Torn Mailer Luxenbourg Trading: Signal- January 06 Sunshine Gang GBA Faultline McDoodles (Texas Spinner) MOGA 06 Time Tracking Coin

I grew up in the "inner city", what some would consider a ghetto (predominantly minority, city neighborhood), and Tracy and I have cached through some questionable areas. If Geocaching never takes you someplace that you don't discover something unexpeted, then you aren't really caching. The most uncomfortable place we cached was a county park outside a small Missouri town. The parking lot was full of spent shotgun casings, beer bottles and broken glass. We found the cache- someone used it for target practice. A week later, we found out that this particular county was notorious for Meth labs and drug use. The earlier suggestion of igmoring caches in areas you don't feel safe in is a good suggestion. Why do you carry everywhere? Do you not feel safe anywhere?