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Tallahassee Lassie

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  1. Or: Found it yet? I always find that the best question to ask strangers who may/may not be cachers.
  2. I never found one by accident, but I think it would have been completely great if I h ad. I probably would have started sooner.
  3. It'd be even more fun to attach a travel bug to the newbie and then hide him in a cache... But then what would we do with the hamsters?
  4. If I am going to put in something that I don't want to get ruined, I make sure its in a plastic baggie. Small-doll type items, items made of cloth, or other objects that may absorb odors or water all go in a baggie. Then when people are pawing through the cache, they can see what it is, but don't have to lay it on the ground, and I don't have to worry about leaky caches. I have put bubbles (in a baggie) into a cache, and have found lots of bubbles in caches, and have never had a problem. But I could see where it could be a problem if it were to leak.
  5. The correct term for a Smurf child is "Smurfling" Well, there ya go.
  6. I Know!! Just couldn't think of the name for a boy baby Smurf, except Smurf.
  7. Received mine yesterday, and will be placing it in a cache today (God willing and the creek don't rise).
  8. Congratualtions and best wishes on your new Smurfette!!
  9. If, for instance, the satellites were no longer available for use from the general public and we could no longer get coordinates on our GPS's. Then, I would probably end up doing letterboxing or its equivalent so that I could continue to search. You don't need a GPS to do a letterbox. In any event, I would definitley have to find some way to do a hunt. It's the thrill of the chase.
  10. I've been to several shuttle day launches and they were awesome. I wish my responsibilities didn't prevent me from going to this one!
  11. Groundspeak hosts the web site. Oh, in that case................... BTW, I was talking to a reporter yesterday, and she asked about the history of geocaching, and I could NOT remember Jeremy's last name!!
  12. Ummmm, I have to givemy geocaching password to them to get a bug?? I don't think so.
  13. My biggest mistake was (and is) going too quickly. Slow down when you get within 50 feet or so and let the GPS catch up. You can easily overshoot your target if you are walking quickly. And remember, the GPS may act a little crazy if it is under trees.
  14. And be careful on the date that you put. You wouldn't want to log a found it today when the cache has had 10 DNF's in a row and is probably missing. It may delay getting reviewed to be archived.
  15. You also may wish to look at the people signing logs that you have also signed. You can check them out to see if they are local, and then e-mail them to see if they would want to cache together. That's what I did, and made a new friend Tally Dragon.
  16. I usually use nearby schools and specify clearly "The coordinates are to blah blah high school. The cache is not located at the school. To find the cache...... blah blah blah".. Yeah. like that will stop them. If they don't read the cache page beforehand, they might just end up arrested.
  17. And my favorite DNF was my family's very first search. We went the wrong way into a park, bushwacked (and I mean BUSHWACKED!) about half mile, waded througha stream, only to come upon a nice trail with benches and a small waterfall. We ended up having to go back the way we came, and we laughed and played the whole way. It turns out the cache was actually missing, but that started my youngest son on wanting to forge rivers and streams on every cache hunt. It was the nicest hunt ever, but thank goodness I finally figured out how to enter coordinates into the GPS!
  18. One of my kids lives in PCB and goes to college there. I've been caching there and must agree that it is a lovely area to visit. (And it's only 90 miles from my home!)
  19. Hmph! You have to read the web page? I just find the caches by telepathy with the hider. <insert condescending look here>
  20. Woo-hoo. I love caching! It's the most fun you can have with your clothes on!
  21. Also, you may want to look at a map of the area (using Google Maps or other) to see where it is you are headed. I DID NOT do this for my first few caches, and was very sorry. I ended up bushwacking over 1/2 mile for no real purpose when there was a much easier way in. Voice of Experience. Trust me on this.
  22. I only have 2 people on my phone-a-friend. One is my hubby, who usually doean't cache, so if I'm stuck, I ask him to go online to see if any more clues about the cache can be gleaned from the cache page. The other is a fellow cacher who has done many that I haven't, and vice-versa, so we help each other out on occasion, maybe 2 times in the last 10 months.
  23. I'm not so sure that a life that is so pathetically empty and devoid of other diversions, interests and pursuits, that I have nothing better to do than post thousands of times on a silly Internet bulletin board is something worth celebrating. But you'll always have Torry...
  24. I like "muggle". My kids love to whisper, "Watch out for those muggles", at which point they generally break out into loud laughter, calling attention to ourselves (of course). Anyway, the term is here to say, so we might as well use it. Just like the term "dog" to refer to your friend is an annoying slang for many people, it doesn't seem to be giong away either. Am I rambling yet?
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