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hi avroair, we like the balloon coin idea heaps. this really sounds great but like all Tb's you are dependant on meeting the goodwill of others. Some of us go out of our way to always try to be good hosts, others are like holding onto my kids bug for nearly a year and at least it ain't lost! So how about random draw for those that help a bug in the race? say for every bug you help you get a ticket in the draw? Also the bug attrition - can you please make it ok to replace a stolen oops lost coin with a double resurrected in a nearby cache otherwise count us out. Getting a coin stolen is bad enough without the possibility of deliberate sabotage wrecking the fun of the game as well. and BTW kudos for thinking of this game - perhaps it has a place here www.cachinggames.com (you can see me missing out by one spot on a prize!

well I don't need to win an LE but have my decoders activated and now just activating little greycells. How do you get around Groundspeak to put a waypoint witht the rangers inside building? I have a library book hide that was gonged - it was good too, someone even tried to check it out but the librarians put it back!

whoa these went quick! Anyone got a spare Prowling Panther? White Bear? Brawny Bear ? Also still seeking jungle garmin, 2005 christmas geo-ornament thingy, DNF glow+pin, sock puppet+pin my trades: coinsandpins night cache pin/coin compass rose 2006 dancing fool 2005 dorkfish double dragons gold double dragons bimetallic dressel dragons Fliegenpilz LE gold (pending) great reward (pending) greenman koi gold LE loggerhead baby maths puzzle blue/red monarch rock and crystal cammo heart Sheridan County wizard of Oz tracking time twin peaks LE gold twin peaks nickel wildlife muggles cache bandit (gold) +pin spinning coin

You should know there are some really nice cachers/coin owners out there (big thanks to everyone who has traded with me and sent stuff!) ..... as well as a few sharkz..... and minting your own may in the long run be the best option

Groundspeak is redoing their TB/geocoin helppage to make it a lot less obscure. In the meantime the monster list of geocoins http://www.geocoins.net/monsterlist/coinsm...df0dc3f6b9c141d is searchable by keyword 1.if it is a GC trackable coin: There may be a notice saying trackable at GC.com You need to look on the coin for a tracking code - it's always 6 characters long, 2 letter prefix+ 4 other letters and/or numbers and you enter it into the travel bug tracking page same as for a tb http://www.geocaching.com/track/ eg a personal coin might have "PCH732 trackable at geocaching.com" on it 2. If it's trackable elswhere or not trackable at all, ( in which case it's usually a nice swap - lucky you,) you might find it on this page signature items tracking site http://www.sigitem.com/ or this page; monster list of geocoins http://www.geocoins.net/monsterlist/coinsm...df0dc3f6b9c141d post a photo if you can cheers

Hi seeking input. is this a dud idea or a good one - be gentle and constructive pleeeese. After our very first attempt to find a TB - kid all excited and so on he was very sad to find teddy teh Travelling turtle had been muggled out of the cache which was out in the open - appropriately a graveyard cache! Teddy haunts us to this day - we cannot go caching without remembering his sad story - kidnapped from Philedelphia and then vanished into the wilds of a foreign land. But his TB number is paid for and useable - so we thought of resurrrecting him by asking for the TB number to attach it to an untrackable loggerhead error coin or a plush toy, and letting him free from a special lazarus cache where you can put the numbers up for 'organ transplant' request - many schoolkids would love a TB and could attach your number to a new toy or yes a coin! In fact we have for a whopping 20 - 50 cents some lovely collectible currency coins all over the world, minted in millions but what the heck they are still coins and would make a nice souvenire of travels if they ever make it home. In fact one 20 cent piece here is so collectible I have only ever seen one in circulation in 3 years.

Yeah, we've had the same experience. Australia and New Zealand are very good places, as well. I think that this might say something about Americans that we don't want to hear, but really need to. As for the attitude expressed by Davispak, we agree completely. Once we put it in a cache, it's ultimately just another piece of swag. If a note in the ZipLok, asking that the coin keep moving, isn't enough to keep someone from keeping it, then maybe our eight bucks has just bought that person a lesson in honesty, somewhere down the road. One Can Hope. yeah - send them out to Australia! especially tassie - see some real wilderness. We have a stargate cache now at bottom of the state so it can ping back to you after a short road trip. I found one of the grand experiment coins and a rather rundown looking USA coin we polished up. Decided to make a coin safehouse for some puzzle coins. Travelbug tags are almost as dear as coins by the time we get the tags and bugs won't always FIT. I have spent lots of time and money on this hobby but imho it's a better investment than the gym; keeps tum and brain trim and you can take the kids so what the heck - I'll be using recycled containers from now on and putting a coin in for FTF

I thought about a micro but then it would be a multi right? and not a letterbox because that wouldn't be a traditional cache - the problem really looks like goecaching guidleines are circular and do not actually if interpreted to the letter ( ie not as guidleines but as law) allow anything new. This is exactly what I wanted to do http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...&log=y&decrypt= and as the guidleines will now cheerfully be quoted at me to say that there are no precedents - I 'm fed up and listing my letterboxes and caches somewhere else.

HI Guys, thanks for the help ... i think... see I am just getting started I don't even know which forum to post in! Dizzy now so I've put the original post as it appeared on *this* forum below! I have changed the cache to a mystery listing. Is that what is wanted? I think what I really need is more "positive" suggestions - do this do that, as well as reasons why "your cache doesn't conform" have another guess. Any more concrete hints for the newbie appreciated. This is the first of a planned series of child/pram friendly letterboxes and this one is even wheel chair accessible). -------------original post-------------------------------------------------------- For reviewers: re:GCR7VX Hi guys - just had my first cache gonged and archived after a tonne of work. I did read the guidelines but there's a heck of them and the reviewer wasn't very patient - like one days worth of posts and he stops helping me make it active. can you look at it and see if it that far from the guidelines and send suggestions please? It started off life as a virtual letterbox for letterboxers only with plans to make it into a real one and share it with my caching friends after I learnt a bit more about things. It's hidden now in a book in the library with the participation of the library staff who think it's a fun idea. Reviewer says buildings are under "commercial premises" - but it's a public library with no commercial activity in entire building. www.geocities.com/seachange_au/vlb.html sorry non admins, you have to do the puzzle to see the cache I am expecting 2 boxes to plant from the US and I have another 2 of my own to share with you but I am not going to spend hours marking waypoints in addition to talking to people to get them involved with boxing and caching locally where it's new, carving stamps, creating puzzles and beautiful physical caches and logbooks trying to get it straight if you aren't keen on being helpful. ( they are not your average tupperware! )

For reviewers: re:GCR7VX Hi guys - just had my first cache gonged and archived after a tonne of work. I did read the guidelines but there's a heck of them and the reviewer wasn't very patient - like one days worth of posts and he stops helping me make it active. can you look at it and see if it that far from the guidelines and send suggestions please? It started off life as a virtual letterbox for letterboxers only with plans to make it into a real one and share it with my caching friends after I learnt a bit more about things. It's hidden now in a book in the library with the participation of the library staff who think it's a fun idea. Reviewer says buildings are under "commercial premises" - but it's a public library with no commercial activity in entire building. www.geocities.com/seachange_au/vlb.html sorry non admins, you have to do the puzzle to see the cache I am expecting 2 boxes to plant from the US and I have another 2 of my own to share with you but I am not going to spend hours marking waypoints in addition to talking to people to get them involved with boxing and caching locally where it's new, carving stamps, creating puzzles and beautiful physical caches and logbooks trying to get it straight if you aren't keen on being helpful. ( they are not your average tupperware! )

Hi guys - just had my first cache gonged and archived after a tonne of work. I did read the guidelines but there's a heck of them and the reviewer wasn't very patient - like one days worth of posts and he stops helping me make it active. can you look at it and see if it that far from the guidelines and send suggestions please? It started off life as a virtual letterbox for letterboxers only with plans to make it into a real one and share it with my caching friends after I learnt a bit more about things. It's hidden now in a book in the library with the participation of the library staff who think it's a fun idea. Reviewer says building is a commercial premises - but it's a public library with no commercial activity in entire building. www.geocities.com/seachange_au/vlb.html sorry you have to do the puzzle

What was the first travel bug? We got quiet and old bug yesterday - he needs a few repairs so we were wondering. Who is the oldest bug? We tried random number searching and the oldest we found is 4 years old.

Is there a good hearted cacher out there who can help a TB nearer to his destination before xmas? he is stuck in tasmania and would like to make his date at the lake of the returned sword Hanoi. please email me.