Danbike_Lizbike

Forgot to add it says Groundspeak on the front in a box.

FRONT: An Eagle and American Flag. Top says TRACK THIS COIN 2006 WWW>GEOCACHING.COM There is a 5 digit numerical code on the coin. BACK: You are the search engine. Used with permission from Groundspeak.com. Geocaching.com With the GC.COM logo in the center of the back. I found them in an envelope with several other items I bought from Groundspeak.

I just found some old goecoins that I must have bought back in 2006. They have a tracking number on them ,but I cannot find any activation codes. Is there anything I can do to activate them? They are the"TRACK THIS COIN" WWW.GEOCACHING.COM coin from 2006.

My late father's last assignment with the Army was at Patch Barracks outside of Stuttgart. Geocaching was not even a dream in the late 1950s and there were not too many memorials to the Wehrmacht back then. If you go do some digging on GC.COM in the Stuttgart area, specifically near Patch, you will find multiple caches honoring different units of the Wehrmacht from the WW2 time period. I'm not going to use a politically sensitive word, but if you uniform has a symbol on it, they you might be construed as supporting that movement.

We once did a cache that had text in Thai to be translated. Found a thai restaurant and presto had the translation.

You want CREEPY. Take a look at first the web site and then the address. http://www.death2ur.com/john_wayne_gacy_grave_and_house.htm 8213 WEST SUMMERDALE AVENUE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Doesn't get much wierder than this spot.

I was down in the Oak Lawn, Il area on a cache run. The size was not selected. The comments said "it is an ammo can". When we approached GZ, it was obvious it was in a parking lot. How about a GI JOE sized ammo can under a lamp post skirt!!!

Someone dragged a Baldwin upright piano out into a forest preserve near the Ill/Wi line and used the keys as the log. That's the good news. I don't think it was ever removed after the cache was archived.

I brought a TB back from Europe and was enjoying watching it move around the US. It was placed in an event in Michigan. I just got a strange message from the event owner/sponser: "A cache containing your trackable item has been archived. The trackable's last known location was the geocache XXXXXX. You may be able to determine more about the cache and your trackable item’s status by reading the most recent logs on the cache page. If you cannot determine the current location of your trackable item, you should mark it ‘missing’ on its reference page." I don't know how things are done in other areas, but where we are, if someone sets up an event, they maintain a log book of the TB so that none are unaccounted for after the event. I was a bit surprised by the note but am learning to curb my comments. Where you have an event, does the event owner/sponsor take any responsibilty for clearning out the TBs when the event is over???

Lizbike and I had driven to Beloit, Wi (as in just over the Cheezeline) to hunt some caches. We drove up to one near the river separating Beloit and South Beloit. I parked the car and was looking at the GPS as I got to where I suspected that the container was at. All of a sudden two officers climbed up the river bank and asked me what I was up to. I explained and then told them that if this was a "sensitive" area, I'd just leave. One asked me "what the heck is geocaching?" The other told me that they'd wait for me to log the find, but that I needed to understand that this is not the best of areas. The second officer then admonished me that "you better not find a body on my watch, like they did on Law and Order".

So give us the GC# so we can learn who the problem child is.

Why not add making the text in some obsure language. I'd recommend one of the Celtic languages.

Memorials are a matter of your perspective. Go take a look in the Boeblingen Germany area. There are quite a few to one Army in particular.

If my memory serves me correct, there is a cache somewhere in the eastern New England area that was placed using an RC helicopter. Don't remember many of the specifics.

Thanks for the suggestion. Works like a charm

I've tried searching but come up empty. I believe that there is a way to save a cache page in an Adobe PDF format. Can't blunder in to how to do it. Has anyone been there and done that? Thanks in advance.

Actually, he does have time to respond. Piaggio, the firm that makes Vespas, produced a private jet several years ago. All he needs to do is buy a vintage Piaggio jet on ebay and then get back to the business of Groundspeak. I don't find it odd. Historically, Groundspeak has never been particularly quick to react to forum threads, and even less so since Jeremy started spending more time assembling the new corporate jet from old Vespa scooter parts.

I used the googlemaps search function and found over 400 caches in a large circle around Frankfurt Main airport. For starters GCA33A is a virtual inside of the airport that requires a photo of you at a particular gate. "Just take a photo of yourself together with the plate “Gate A42” (see picture) and add to your cache-log. Of course only once per cacher." If you go to that cache page and then select find other nearby caches, I'm sure you'll be able to fill a layover in the neighborhood. PS>>Tell you son thanks for his service.

Both the AMA (motorcycle related) and the NRA offer lifetime single pay options. At the time I looked into them they were $500.00. I know that they are more expensive now. Remember both groups have active lobbying activities and both groups have engaged in legal issues on behalf of their members. Don't know if this is a good comparable, but it is one perspective. A professional society I belong to also has an interesting angle. Once you reach 50 years of age and 25 years of service in the professional area, you only pay one more annual fee. From that point forward, you become a "lifetime certified" individual. That lifetime certification carries on after retirement at no charge also.

What a novel suggestion. Wonder how many people will heed your suggestion. Merci, Danke, Thank You

Perhaps you could rename it a geostash?

If you set up notifications for a second area, distant from your home coordinates, do those notifications function in the same was as the ones for your home coordinates? Thanks in advance.

We have had OUTSTANDING luck with any TB that ended up in Germany/Austria/Hungary/or any of the eastern European countries. Don't understand exactly why but they take TBs and coins very seriously.

Well put. Wouldn't it be nice if we allowed each other to participate as we wanted and not in a manner that some bureaucrat or bureaucrat wannabe wanted. I'm beginning to think that the Germans are correct and some of us are wound a bit too tight. Perhaps they could channel that passion into the future of their Country and leave all the rest of us to pursue pastimes. Don't get me wrong...I still enjoy the game (some even call it a sport). It's just annoying that somebody would log 25 Finds on a single cache to inflate their numbers. Why?!? Why does it annoy you? I really, truly, honestly want to know. Help me understand why something like this would bother you. If you quoted my entire post, rather than stopping where you chose to, the last phrase says it all... "...I guess I'm a purist...1 GC# = 1 Find." No, it doesn't. Describing your own personal logging standard doesn't answer my question at all. My question relates to why you are troubled by the idea that others may have a different personal logging standard. I get that you don't care to multi-log that cache. I problably wouldn't either. The difference between our viewpoints is that I don't care whether others do it and ignore it happily, whereas you described it as "annoying." Hence my question: Why?

Thanks for the tip. I couldn't get in yesterday afternoon or EARLY this morning. All is well now. I do go thru an ATT DSL link.