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I think that TB's with specific missions get a bit more attention. The ones that say 'travel from cache to cache' don't get many pictures or notes. I will go out of my way to drop a bug that wants to go somewhere specific where it wants to go. One of the good bugs I've seen lately is a morphing bug. When you find it, you take off whatever it is attached to and attach whatever you want. Morphing Travel Bug I have one bug that wanted to go to Hawaii. It made it to Hawaii and the cacher dressed it up with a Lei and took pictures of it and write a great log. Round Head TB

very last thought (OK, I like to write!)... There is a series of caches in Virginia that are simple mostly guardrail micros off the interstate. They are called JOE (Just off Interstate). I did eight of these in one day. There really wasn't much to write about, but as I was driving I started 'talking' to the next JOE cache. My logs are below. I got a very nice email from the cache owner saying he loved the logs. That made my day. Here are my logs: JOE, It has been very nice meeting you today. You are very easy to get along with and bring me much joy. I hope to see more JOE's today. JQ JOE, Wow, you sure get around; this is our second meeting today. I have enjoyed finding you again, and I am happy you have changed a bit since our earlier meeting. I wouldn’t like it if you were the same every time we met. JQ JOE, Our third meeting today, and I am still happy to be finding you! You bring excitement to my life! Plucked you off, did my thing, and put you back. Easy! JQ JOE, This is the forth time we have crossed path’s today, I hope you don’t think I’m stalking you. I just enjoy your company. TFTC! JQ. JOE, Yipee, you are one reliable, steady friend. This is our fifth meeting today, you are easy to find and I have enjoyed you every time! JQ JOE, Now that we have met six times, I feel it is time to come clean with you. I enjoy other, more fruitful types much better, but I am enjoying you today. JQ JOE, We have seen each other seven times today and I feel it is getting a bit excessive. I feel the need to start exploring other types out there. I see a cacher I know from home pbookman has visited you recently. I had no idea other Delawarians were seeing you. Know I know. JQ JOE, Now that we have run into each other eight times today, I need to break off our relationship. I need to seek other, more challenging relationships. Thanks for being here today when I needed you. JQ

another thought.... If I don't have much to say about the cache, I like to write about the area where the cache is located. Here is a log from another recent cache: Beach of Sore Eyes Cache I have been watching this new cache every day, thinking that it would be found. With the onset of new caches in the last few days, this one is buried off of the main page, but still not found. Today I had some free time, and there is no FTF yet, so off I went... In 1988, the song 'Get out of my life and into my car' by Rick Ashley was playing on the radio. As that song was playing, my boyfriend proposed to me on this very beach. Well, that didn't work out too well, but this FTF did. After the DNREC guy left, I was alone at the beach today on an overcast, breezy 65 degree summer day. There are several million places to hide a cache in this location, and I looked in many of them before finding the cache. I was wondering weather all the rain we had may have washed the cache away. I was wondering what was going through debjoey's head hiding a cache here. I was wishing I hadn't found it yet so I could spend some more time here! It was very relaxing being out here with the water and the birds. TN, Left $1,000,000.00. Thanks to DebJoey for the cache!

I'd like to see examples of logs that are really good. I was at an event last month, and when I introduced myself to some cachers, they said "you are the one that writes those really good logs". I was very proud and happy to hear this. I like writing logs, I like to write stuff about my day and have people pay attention. I have had trouble condensing my log to fit within the 4000 character limit. I totally agree that I write much more detailed logs for caches that are especially fun. Here is a portion of one of my latest logs for a very cool multicache: Hillside Cache ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-cache I tried a few runfrog caches. It seams that Mr. R.U. nfrog and I have different ways of thinking about geocaching. I like a little walk in the woods with a nice prize at the end. He likes to be exposed to every possible challenge in the woods and get a little tube at the end with more coordinates to another equally nasty place to find. Why I like his caches - I don’t know. But I do know that I have trouble with them, so I’ve enlisted help for this one. When I saw that Gregwein had successfully done several of runfrog’s caches lately, and that he likes to take pruning sheers and make trails where thorns used to be, I asked if he wanted to do this one together. We decided to meet at 8am. 7:18am The cache owner is currently in Albequircky, at a frog reunion or something, but since he generously gives out his cell phone number in the cache description, I gave him a friendly ‘Hiya’ text to make sure he was ready to hear our whines and pleas for help. He texted back that it is 5:19am where he is and he is going back to sleep. Oops, now that I’ve disrupted the frogs sleep, I hope I haven’t ruined my chances for help with the cache. Parking Lot We haven’t even started the cache yet, and have to make a decision already. Where to park??? Two spots, both about the same distance from Stage 1. After much debate I picked Parking #2. This ended up being the right choice. I suggest you take a cooler, fill it with frosty cool beverages and perhaps a grill with some burgers since you will pass this parking lot several times when doing this cache. Plus, it takes all day, so you may get hungry. Stage 1 ‘Dead’ The phrase ‘Needle in a Haystack’ applies here. We learned that two GPS’s can be next to each other, and have readings that are up to 300 feet different. Who knew? I was totally ready for the stream crossing with my watershoes, and my inflatable rowboat with oars, but alas, we didn’t need it because there was just a trickle of water in the stream bed today. It was just a hop across. Does that lower the terrain? If so, it was a terrential water forge and I needed Greg to throw me the life jacket and I had to use my scuba oxygen tank just to stay alive. Around GZ, the GPS would say 35 feet with 40ft accuracy, or 10 feet with 60ft accuracy, occasionally one of us would get to 10 feet, or 6 feet, but never in the same area. We kicked, shoved and moved around every stick, leaf, log, tree, plant, rock and dead animal and found nothing. Then when walking in yet another circle, there it was – laying in the open. We must have made it a projectile somehow. I’m not really sure how. Or maybe runfrog pressed his magic button that made it ‘appear’. Who knows? I did the happy dance and we moved on.

It is showing you the caches from the centerpoint of the city you selected.

Oh No, Not another cache where I am on one side of the creek and the GPS is pointing to the other side! (this happened to me again today). I have a history of falling into creeks. Or crossing them, then the GPS points back to the side I was originally on.

I travel a lot for work too, so I agree that it would be nice to be able to search on a TB's 'mission' to find ones that want to go to a certain state. But, I think it would be hard to do since this information is buried in the TB mission. What I would REALLY like to see, is a way to search for all caches containing multiple TB's! Right now I'm 2000 miles from home, and I have 2 TB's I want to drop off, but I want to trade for 2 TB's that need to go back east. I have to look at every cache with a TB to see if there are multiples. GSAK doesn't really help because it doesn't show me multiple TB's either. Then I have to manually check the mission of each TB. One trip, I was in Denver on the way to the airport and I picked up a TB. It didn't have the mission listed on the TB. I got home to Delaware and found that it's mission was to get to Denver! oops! I would like to enter an address (usually of the hotel I am at), and search for low terrain, low difficulty caches in the area with multiple TB's. I would also like to find a way to search for all caches I can do in work clothes. Maybe this can be added as a cache attribute? Sometimes the only cache I can possibly get after a meeting is a LPC. Sometimes it is hard to figure out which ones are LPC's without looking at every discription.

I am in town for a conference, and don't have access to a car, but the Marta station is right across the street. I am looking for cache suggestions that are easy to get to from any Marta station around Atlanta. I have a few TB's I want to drop off. Any help is most appreciated!

I got a picture last week of an animal I thought is a Fox. Somebody added a note that they think it is a coyote. Anybody know what it really is? Here is my log and picture: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LU...a3-077a86d7a637

I can usually spot an ammo can by the large number of sticks or other type of ground cover needed to hide it. Although these are 'natural' items, an excess amount of rock or stick cover stands out if you are looking for it. Good Luck!

I drive up and down the NJT and GSP fairly often. There are rest area caches, but I like to pick a spot a mile or so off the turnpike where I can get a few caches. I find this little 'break' breaks up the drive better than the rest area caches. A few weeks ago, I did these three caches and they are my very favorite NJ stop! They are close together at a really neat location where you can stretch your legs and see something that you have never seen before. One of them is one of NJ's oldest caches as well. Enjoy! TAE Info Trail by TwoCat (GCWKB6) Edison's Edification by JLOUISMAN(adopted by Mopar) (GC2EF5) Let There Be Light by KingGroovy (GC60B) JenniferQp

I want to be able to search for public bookmarks that contain the words 'Delaware' and 'Favorite' or something similar. Is there a way to do this? Is there a way to see all public bookmarks that contain a cache within 10 miles of my home location?

Thanks Peter and Gloria, I tried this and didn't get good results, but then realized it was because I only had waypoints within 10 miles of my house in GSAK. I plan on running a query tonight to extend my range, so I will have more caches to search. That may just do the trick! jennifer

Is there a way to write a query, use GSAK, or use any other means to find only TB hotels within 200 miles of my home location? I know I can find just caches with TB's, and I can sort in GSAK to find anything starting with 'TB' or 'Hotels' but most TB Hotels have a identifier as the first word, like 'Josie's TB Hotel'. Thanks in advance!

I do the same steps as you do, except after a find I just keep going with the same cache info in my GPS. I have about 450 waypoints loaded in my GPS, so at any time all I am missing is anything new since I last loaded up. I have email notifications for anything new, so if anything catches my eye, I print it out and enter the coords manually, or just add that one GPX to GSAK and recopy to my GPS. This way, I only need to re-load' periodically, like every 6-weeks or so to get the most up-to-date info. I don't load 500 waypoints into my GPS so I have some extra room to mark parking spots etc.

When I click on the 'Insert Link' option, I get the error 'Error! You must enter a URL You must enter a title'. This makes no sense to me. Where do I enter a URL? Where do I enter a title? The error message is grammatically incorrect and confusing. I was able to just paste in the link, but it would be nice if this button worked correctly.

Thanks for the great read. Here is a similar FTF that happened yesterday with a different outcome http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LU...f3-851a2936dafd

I think it would be more interesting if the owner of a cache could add comments to the finders posts, similar to the way blogs work. I've seen this done now as 'notes', but not often. I think if the owners had the option to comment on a users log, more owners would post comments. IMO, reading and writing the logs is one of my favorite parts about geocaching, and if I write an exceptional log, I would love to get feedback from the owner.