KommisMar

I got a pretty bad exposure when I was out a few weeks ago. I actually thought I'd rubbed up against some rust or something, as it initially looked like a few rust-colored blotches on my inner wrist that just didn't want to wash off. Within a few days, they looked like three huge bug bites, and by a few days later I had tiny red itchy bumps on both of my forearms, my neck, all over my abdomen, and on my inner thigh. It could have been a snake or spider (or gator!) bite, so I didn't want to complain too much, but the itching was so bad that it woke me up nights when it was at its worst. I finally had to cover my wrist because the scratching in my sleep was causing the sores on my wrist to bleed. Yuck. Very hot water and rubbing alcohol were the cures for me. I also tried Cortizone-10 and Lanacane with no success, although the Cortizone feels nice on the dry patches that I have left.

I like finding handmade items and things with place names on them. For example, last week I found a pencil that was made in Scotland. In another cache that I found that day, there were some handmade dog collars and some shells that were labeled with the names of the beaches they were found on. I didn't take those items but I thought they were cool. I like it when people put a little thought into their trading items. I have also found a LOT of what I would consider junk, but you know, "one man's junk"... I am still fairly new to the sport and have been leaving old coins as trade items. I broke open a roll of uncirculated wheat pennies and had a bunch of well-circulated buffalo nickels that I wasn't doing anything with. They fit in most cache containers. They cost .25-.50 apiece, if that, and I would think they'd be cool to find if you weren't a coin collector.