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HEY! THanks for all your help! I think that I'll go to the maze and not expect a life changing experience, but a novelty time. It seems like there are a couple of caches that are Have To Finds and a I now have a few great choices on places to eat! THANKS! I knew that this was the place to ask to find the best spots! THANKS!!

These are all great insights, thanks! Sadly I'm in Nashville for about a day and a half and don't plan on renting a car. I only have one morning to myself before my meeting at 1pm... SAD... Then I leave the next day in the morning. I'm staying at the Opryland Hotel and taking a taxi over to 'THE MAZE' and back. I saw that there are two by my hotel that I plan on getting, too. A little off topic, but I think that I' might have a few hours to myself, in the afternoon, the day I arrive . I belive that Nashville is known for their BBQ and country music? (Sorry if I am stereotyping, I APOLOGIZE. I just don't know any better). Are there suggestions on a great place to eat and get a TRUE Nashville experience? I'm comming from Los Angeles and don't know if I'll ever be back to Nashville again...

I meant to post this a little bit ago. Thanks for all your replies. It all helps! I think that the urban caches' coordinates needs to be pretty right on because the hides have to be so very well hidden (the muggle factor and to not look overly suspicious). Hey, if any of you have any other suggestions on how to get even better on more accurate navigation points, please let me know!

I'm going to Nashiville, TN next week for work. I have a few hours on Thursday morning 8/4/11 to go. I plan to be there from about 10-11:30ish. Has anyone else gone, yet? What should I expect? I'm going by myself, Is it mainly for the kiddies? Are there a lot of things to buy? Any free SWAG? How fun is that maze? I went to the event site and read a number of the logs and it seems fun, but I thought that I'd get the Forum's opinion...

These are very helpful! Thanks! I plan on rechecking some ones that are near me today! I hope to find a few!

I live in the city and there are a number of TELPHONE POLE HIDES. I've never been able to find any of these types of caches. I don't know how many times I've looked like I have just found my one and true love in a telephone pole by touching it, caressing it, staring at it, and to a point talking to it! Are there any suggestions, so I just don't look like I've fallen back into The Age of Aquarius and getting ready to go to another Grateful Dead show?!

For the longest time, I was looking for the perfect bag to use at work, hold my computer, day trips, over night traveling, Geocaching, and that it doesn't look like a school backpack or anything that looks a little TOO HIPSTER. Well, a while ago, I came here to this thread and read up on bags. I found the http://www.Maxpedition.com site. I surfed it for a while and then I saw IT! I saw the one that was for me... The Maxpedition Kodiak Gearslinger. I also bought a phone holder assessory. It wasn't cheap, but I know that it will be well worth it. I've had it now for a couple of weeks and still don't regret it. I've used it for all my intended purposes and there has been NO PROBLOEM. Another selling point for me was that the smaller version of this bag was used in the Transformers 3 movie... heehehe... nothing like feeling like a secret action hero!

I know that this topic has been touched upon, but I think that this one is different because it's asking: How many of you have made the choice, not by mistake or malfunction that something goes wrong, but the actual decision of going for a cache knowing that it was a super stupid thing to do? My Super Stupid GEO Story... About a month a go I couldn't go to sleep. So, I thought that I would do some night caching several miles away from where I live. I always saw them, but never got around to getting them for some reason. I found the two that I wanted and was heading home. Then I saw that there was one comming up and I thought, "Oh, what the heck, why not?!" So, I pulled off the freeway and it was about a half a mile out from the freeway exit. It was underneath a bridge. I was being SUPER GEO STUPID and I wasn't even thinking that it was about 11:30pm and I'm going under a bridge that was located in the heart of East Los Angeles (for those of you who don't know, it's an ok area during the day, but at night...DIFFERENT STORY! I know this because I work in East LA). Well, putting on my SUPER STUPID GEO mind-frame on, I went to go for it. Well, I got to the bridge and saw that it was just to the side of it. And, the only place to park was further down along side the bridge on this graffiti filled dead end street. Well, I thought, 'OK, it's going to be a quick park and grab.' Well, the second I parked the car and opened the door, three large shadows quickly came out from under the bridge, walked directly towards me and after they took about ten feet, they started to rush towards me. For a slight second, I had the deer in the headlights moment, then it came to me, 'GET BACK INTO THE CAR!' I threw the car into reverse, as they were about 30 feet from my car (It could have been my imagination, but it looked like one of them was reaching into their jacket), reentered the main street in reverse without looking, shoved it into drive and took off. This story is of no exaggeration, I'm actually diluting it. The Cache page didn't say, 'Don't go at night', but any person with any sensilility or any ounce of common sense would NEVER GO by just looking at the pictures and area! Well, I did... I don't know how much more super geo stupid I could have been! At any rate, I've never been back to get it. Maybe one day.... DO YOU HAVE A SUPER STUPID GEO STORY? Or, am I the only one that's this stupid?

I was wondering the ettiquette when asking for help? There are a few caches that I have tried to contact the different COs and there have been no responses. I've gone the route of cliking onto their names and seeing thier profile page and then sending them a message either throuhg the Geocaching website and/or through their publicly posted e-mail address. Do you think that the initial asking of help (first contact) should be done through the Cache Operator's Geocaching Cache Detail site or directly to the CO themselves via e-mail? Or should help be asked at all? Also, do you think that I am being rude in asking these type of questions and that the answers to these questions should be unspokenly understood that one just has to figure it out themselves? The questions that I have asked in the past: 1. Am I really looking in the right place? (with attachment of myself and GPS in a picture) 2. I'm goin do some traveling to your area and saw that your cache's last few log ins were over a year ago and they were DNFs. Do you think it still might be there? 3. Could I have a better hint on the puzzle? (With attached explaination of my thinking process of how I just don't get thier puzzle) 4. According to my GPS and Google maps I need to hop a wall/ go throuhg a fence, am I reading the info correctly? Or, is there a better way to get to your cache? Help....?

Yeah, Geocaching is therapy for me. A while back, I had to go to the emergency room because I was REALLY sick. I ended up staying in there for about two weeks and not knowing if I was going to make it out. Well, making it out and going through several months of treatments, I knew that I had to get healthier. I know that I'll have to make regualr visits to the doctor and keep up my meds and treatments, but I'm doing a lot better. I'm not one to 'work-out' nor am I the one to join a gym and do any type of aerobics. So, I was searching the net to try and buy a good commuter bicycle that I can ride to work. Well, low and behold, I came arcoss the Geocaching website. Ever since then, I've been hooked and loving it! Since I've started, my health has gone up, my drive to get outside (because there was a time that I just didn't want to go outside) has gone up, and it's a pretty darn fun thing to do! I also love the surreptitiousness of this gameplay! Well, I carried my addiction to work. I'm an art teacher and I have now began a Geocaching group at my school. For the past month, we've been going hiking in the mountains for caches. We'll do sketches and drawings of the area and one time we went to the top of this cliff over looking the beach and spent the afternoon painting! I love being a teacher in the summer! Again, Geocaching for me has been therapy and I hope to make it last for a long time! I'm glad that this thread is here. It's nice to know that there are some in the same catagory as I in the Geocaching world!

Well, I'm fairly new to Geocaching, been finding for about two months and have under 200 finds and still strongly obsessed! Anyway, I've also placed two urban caches (I live in Downtown Los Angeles) and sometimes the buildings, telephone wires, metal fencing makes the GPSr navigation bounce around. I've found that it's difficult to get an accurate reading better than 10-15feet. Of the two that I've placed, I've not only averaged out the waypoints about 200+ times each (Maybe I should let it do more?) using my Garmin 60csx, I then go to google maps to verify it's satallite location to get a visual on how it's marked, and finally I go to iTOUCHmaps.com, it can show the decimal longitudinal and latitudinal navigation points, to reverify the location. However, I can only get about ten feet accuracte. Sometimes, I've even been about 50 feet off on one ones that I am currently wanting to place! I have planned out three caches and where they are to go, but I don't want to place anymore until I can figure out a way to make sure that I can mark a positve GZ for my caches. Is there a program or better system to find absolute GZ in a busy metropolitan area? I think that I would look pretty strange, but would buying the Garmin extention antenna help?

Hello all. I became a member recently. I'm in the Downtown Los Angeles area. If anyone is interested in doing some Geocaching together, let me know. I'm the only one in my circle of friends that truely enjoys this. I'll drag some of my friends around, but I think that it would be fun to see how it'd be Geocaching with others that are as obsessed as I have become! Well, I'm done trolling this forum and I'm begining to post. I'll see all of you out there!