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It seems that PQ's are taking a bit of time to run today. Usually checking the day that you want a query to run is enough, but mine has been in queue for quite a while now. I'd guess that you did everything right and there's some delay on GC's side. Anyone else having this experience?

Maybe they're part of the cache theme

73 finds, page 19, 20.3 miles from home.

Like Team Zebra, I'd do a lot of "copy/paste" of useful cache info into a single document. I would pack as many onto a page as possible. Then I would download as many waypoints into my GPS as I could. I'd use the GPS to find the nearest waypoint and my "notebook" to zero in on the details. It was hard to keep it all organized, especially as new cahces were added. This was back few years and caches were not so common in my area. There are now hundreds where there used to be dozens. A PDA really helps and it adds a lot to my gc experience. BTW, I use a Zire 31 and I love it.

Our dogs are great companions to take caching, but we're always careful about allowing them off-leash. Keep in mind that not everyone likes dogs, even if they're friendly. My neighbor has this strange reaction to one of our dogs. He'll run up his driveway and dash into the house if our dog barks. Needless to say, we're careful about letting him out without a leash. The dog, that is.

Bicycling. Although, it is hard to be inconspicuous when you're wearing biking shorts and a hi-vis yellow jersey. Talk about a muggle-magnet!

Ours is easy - Tony 'n Theresa Weisse (pronounced whyzee). We were thinking of changing our last name to "F8921T" so we could have a vanity license plate without paying extra for it . . .

I often read the Straight Dope at lunch. A couple of years ago they had a link to GC.com (under the unusual links section called "Weird Earl's"). It sounded like fun and within a week I purchased my little yellow Etrex. I've enjoyed it ever since.

Religion CAN invoke a lot of strong personal feelings, so you certainly run the risk of getting someone ticked off. However, I think that if you traded fairly (assume the CD is just an "extra" and not your real trade item) and clearly identified the CD as being of a religous (Christian) nature, I say why not? There have been a couple of threads lately about cache items and political correctness. My opinion is that we can all be individuals and get along without offending one another.

There is a cache nearby that I've already logged as a find. However, I have learned that the cache is in the same park, but moved to a different location. I certainly intend to find and log it twice!

I like the sound of "Reverse Caching", but that might be confused with hiding a cached as opposed to finding one. My vote shouldn't count as a full one, though, because L-caching doesn't sound like that much fun to me. Tony

I've been thinking about placing a cache based on the book/movie "Pay it Forward". This would be a traditional cache with an added bonus (depending on how you look at it). People would be encouraged to log some act of kindness that they performed, say, within the week prior to doing the cache. After a few months I would post another poll here so that we could all vote on the "best" one. Winner would get the coordinates to a new cache. After a while I would just turn this into a regular mutli.

Man, this is so close to my idea for a "Wide World of Scat" cache. I want to place a five gallon pail with a toilet seat on it and everyone who visits can leave a little bit of their personal history behind. Talk about a log book!

I have spent a lot of time outdoors fishing, hunting, hiking. But it wasn't until I started geocaching that I started seeing nekkid folks out there. Twice now I have stumbled across people um, well, doing it while I was out caching. I am beginning to think that gps really stands for travgny crargengvba frafbe (encoded to protect the innocent).

Could be 'cachers on vacation without ready access to the internet. This happened to me a few weeks ago on a "first find" no less. I was away from a computer and felt bad that I couldn't log the find on the same day, but I didn't know what else to do. Finally logged the visit two days later when I got home.

Okay, no more funny posting during lunch (12:30 - 1:00, Prevailing Central Time). It's bad for my keyboard. BTW, NetDep, you can edit a post and thereby "hide" any silly errors. In fact, doing that might make MTU's reply look VERY strange indeed. Tony

Okay, no more funny posting during lunch (12:30 - 1:00, Prevailing Central Time). It's bad for my keyboard. BTW, NetDep, you can edit a post and thereby "hide" any silly errors. In fact, doing that might make MTU's reply look VERY strange indeed. Tony

Because folks are sometimes lazy. I did a cache a few weeks ago that was under a pile of rocks. Removed the ammo container and a whole bunch of rocks rolled into the (formerly) empty hole. It took about ten minutes to move rocks around before I could get the container back UNDER the pile of rocks. It was even tougher to find the moss covered ones and make sure they were all properly oriented to the north.

Okay, we've all stumbled across an exceptional cache at one time or another. I recently had the chance to visit Devil's Lake Outback and I thought it was an exceptionally well done cache. Anyone who has visted Devil's Lake State Park in Wisconsin knows that this is a beautiful area, however, this particular cache is outside of the typical area visited by most people. It was really a treat! I think that this was an exceptional cache because I felt that the cacher was really sharing something special with us. They had discovered a special area off the beaten path and were willing to share it with a few people. What do you think? What, in your opinion, makes for a special cache? Is it that sense of sharing or is it something else?

If I'm doing a virtual, then I tend to think of the sport as a game. When I'm hiking through the muck to get to a cache, then the game is a sport. I've also called it a hobby, but never a pastime. That sounds too much like something an old guy would do( . Any way you slice it, it's just plain old fun to me!

If I'm doing a virtual, then I tend to think of the sport as a game. When I'm hiking through the muck to get to a cache, then the game is a sport. I've also called it a hobby, but never a pastime. That sounds too much like something an old guy would do( . Any way you slice it, it's just plain old fun to me!

I think it would be funny. Personally, however, I would at least give folks a hint that there might be a joke involved. Maybe in the name you choose for the cache?

I have had an Opinel for about 25 years and there's only one problem with it - I keep losing the darn thing! I bet I have lost that knife ten times, but I always seem to find it again. It's a great knife and nobody else I know of owns one. Isn't it fun to be unique?

quote:Could be helpful in knowing exactly how much fertilizer to buy. Why would you want to fertilize?!? It only makes the grass grow longer and faster. IMHO, time spent mowing is time taken away from geocaching.

quote:Could be helpful in knowing exactly how much fertilizer to buy. Why would you want to fertilize?!? It only makes the grass grow longer and faster. IMHO, time spent mowing is time taken away from geocaching.