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I guess what I would like a WG/GC experience to be, is a way of passing a bill to someone else who would then spend it freely. Lord knows I spend enough of my own cash on a regular basis -- I'd consider this to be like passing bills to my wife before she flies to a different state. I'm not the one spending them, but I have encouraged their migration to a wholly different locale. D

My caching is a solo activity until at least spring; my wife has said she'll come along at least once when the weather is warmer. If she doesn't care for it, though, it'll be back to solitary hikes and treasure hunts, both of which are great excuses for gettin' off my behind and away from the hypnotic glare of the computer screen... D

I was interested in leaving "Where's George" dollars in caches I find, in order to possibly encourage them to be spent in far-ranging states, but I read the geocaching guidelines on the WG site and have some concerns, particularly as regards the removal of the bills from the summaries (item #3 in the linked document). If a bill I enter is "tagged" as a Geocache Bill and removed from the summaries, that kind of defeats the purpose of tracking its movements -- if it doesn't show up in my summaries, how am I supposed to know where it went? I don't want bills like this to be Travel Bugs, moving from cache to cache, but if I were to put one in the cache, I'd like the person who removed it to spend it during their travels, encouraging its spread even further. I've read a number of cache logs with WG bills listed as a "left" item; what's the general etiquette among the caching community? If you take a WG bill, do you log it yourself? Do you note it as being found in a cache? Do you move it to another cache, or do you spend it and let it roam free? I almost feel as if I should print a "bill etiquette manifesto" to enclose with a WG bill, so that it doesn't get lost to the sands of time... Thoughts? Pointers to previous discussions on this topic? Thanks, D

Heh, found my first one yesterday. It was nice to find a traditional cache without too much difficulty; the GPS got me within a very short distance indeed, and a tiny bit of wandering got me where I needed to go. My online log includes some detail on local fauna as well. Had an unsuccessful hunt for a different one the day before, but I'm not giving up on it yet, as I had only some sketchy hand-written notes and hadn't realized it was a multipart with a micro starter. I can probably get to the general location without even using the GPS next time, to try again. Today would have been good, except for the thunderstorms and frozen rain. Kinda itching for the next one already... will it be something close to my house, like the one I found yesterday, or one close to work? Anything involving travel is going to wait until I've found a few local ones first... there's still three in the forest preserve less than half a mile from my house waiting to be found! D