Metaphor

Support the website that feeds your addiction. "All of us are standing in the mud, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde

Log Travel Bugs IN and OUT of caches. "All of us are standing in the mud, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde

How about this one: Passport TB unfortunately stalled in Arizona for the last two months... "All of us are standing in the mud, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde

Ain't summer grand? Congratulations, and have a great year... "All of us are standing in the mud, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde

I saw a BrianSnat once on a cache hunt. "All of us are standing in the mud, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde

I signed it -- I use both, but really prefer MAC. Part of the problem is that it's a Catch 22-- Mac is number two because there isn't software for Macs, but because there isn't software, Mac is number two. Oh, and a lot of people who have never used the MAC, or remember it as the old 1980's APPLEs, are vociferous in their protestations against MACs. If we compared DOS to modern-Windows, would we argue in favor of DOS? Once, my sister, a PC snob emailed me with "Can a Mac write programs in Borland?", and I replied, "Can you?" She never emailed back on that topic. Now with Unix and OS X, what's the big deal? "All of us are standing in the mud, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde

Durn it-- I promised at the Catskill event that I would find a BrianSnat cache before year's end. "All of us are standing in the mud, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde

The best swag is swag that is interesting, unique, and local (or un-local) items. If I can get it at a chain restaurant, dollar store, wal-mart, etc., it probably isn't one of the above. Highlights to date: pins from around the US and world; foreign coins and bills; fossils and sharks' teeth; a chain-mail hackey sack; CD's (legal collections, like the freeware Grateful Dead concert tape I found a couple of weeks ago); Travel Bugs; cache "business cards"; Mr. Spock ears; etc. "All of us are standing in the mud, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde

Yes, by all means take her again, if it will produce more stories like this one. "All of us are standing in the mud, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde

I asked the stewardess on a trans Atlantic USAIR flight, and had no problems. In fact, she gave me the impression that people using GPSr's was pretty routine. I took readings from the window seat about every half hour, which gave a cool track from London, north past Glasgow,Scotland, further north into the Atlantic, then arcing down toward Halifax, NS, the coast of Maine, Boston, and finally to Philly. "All of us are standing in the mud, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde

Congratulations! I'm sorry I missed you at the Royal Welsh -- I would have enjoyed congratulating you in person. Maybe next year, as I'll be in Builth about the same time. Good luck and thanks for the cache. "All of us are standing in the mud, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde

Metaphor is the name of my sailboat. I also teach English and Writing, and have found that many of life's lessons are best explained through the use of metaphor. "All of us are standing in the mud, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde

And bears. Watch for bears on the other side of the berry patch, Waterboy... "All of us are standing in the mud, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde

Aw shucks, guys, 'tweren't nuthin'... "All of us are standing in the mud, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde

Bring it to the Eastern Shore of MD. Let's toss it back and forth, not bury it, to make it fun... Keep it moving. Ah''m going ta plaoy fur tha Mur'lin soide... "All of us are standing in the mud, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde

File all complaints with the U.S. Department of Redundancy Department in Washington D.C. (Dang -- someone beat me to it...) "All of us are standing in the mud, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde

Perfect. "All of us are standing in the mud, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde

Bump -- one week away... Let's get the particulars and contact info down solidly this weekend. I'm going to drive up and bivouac close by on Friday, and meet up Saturday morning. Kaaterskill High Peak, approach from the SW, cache camp and day hike... "All of us are standing in the mud, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde

MD, DE, VA, PA, NY, IL Belgium, and hopefully Wales in a few weeks... "All of us are standing in the mud, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde

BUMP-- June 28, Kaaterskill High Peak, two "tangible" virtuals -- AirCrash 1&3, great views, campfire tall tales... "All of us are standing in the mud, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde

Not a whole lot...I went out in a torrential rain to find numbers 97, 98,and 99 yesterday. I could have hunted a couple of more in the same area to hit the magic 100 count, but finding the caches was secondary to sloshing around in the rain, listening to the sounds of the forest, breathing the moist air -- the cache hunt was only an excuse to get out and wander by myself. I've been doing this since March a year ago, and I have found caching to be a sideline to going to interesting places that have always been there but were unnoticed. I've cached by plane, train, car and boat, gone into swamps and on mountaintops, in the dry heat of summer drought, the chill of winter snows, and in the mists of early morning fogs. The cache was only a destination point, not a notch to be added to my geocaching list. I will find satisfaction in attaining my 100th cache soon, but not if it is an easy side-of-the-road type. The most I have ever done in a day was 9 caches, all in the same park. Even then, I could have done fewer and been more satisfied. I don't have any envy for the numbers people; in fact, I kind of pity them -- life is too fast as it is, and any chance I can get to slow it down by wandering quietly instead of rushing from point to point is so much more desirable. But if that's what satisfies them, then it's all good. As the Appalachian Trail mantra goes, "You've got to walk your own walk.." "All of us are standing in the mud, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde

I was there in February and had no problems. They are the same satellites used in the US. I did change over to metric units to make it easier to follow road signs. "All of us are standing in the mud, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde

I use Mac (OS 9) with Explorer 5 and have plotted caches on LostOutdoors.com without any problem... "All of us are standing in the mud, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde

I thought of bumping it as well. I'm still in. Interesting note about the Roundtop colonial fort -- any 'net accessible info? "All of us are standing in the mud, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde

Pretty much everywhere around here is 100+ miles for me. The shortest distance was 25 mile (one-way) the longest, a 6000 mile round-trip, but that also coincided with a cabin-fever mid-life crisis beer-run... Generally, it's about 150 miles r/t, unless I'm traveling to somewhere distant for other reasons and can hit the odd cache. "All of us are standing in the mud, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde