Mindy and the Boyz

GeoMaine if you were any kind of an adult you just would not do this to kids as far as I'm concerned you are against kids and not only against the BSA because if you were just against the BSA you'd have not have logged the TB as stated. It also takes tolerance of other things as well as someone being tolerant of gay rights to get along so even if you are against the BSA then you should just leave it at that and if you have problems with the BSA then take it up with them and not the kids that are involved. I'm really disappointed here and as an adult you have to act like that what a waste of everyones time and heartaches because you had to discrimanate against some kids that were in the boys scouts. SHAME ON YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just got my first micro cache yesterday and the guy put in a piece of paper with the rules on it and he had a very small golf pencil or game pencil in there it fit in there nicely and was hidden in a tree where it comes to a fork.

Oh what a good idea they'd love to make something like that and I've got just the idea that the kids would love using popsicle stickes I can buy 200 of them and a bunch of eyes and yarn and then we could put the date of the find of each one of them.

Thanks I just signed up!!!

And does it come with software or do I need to buy it?

Thanks now only if I still looked like that LOL. After 4 kids well you get the picture that's one reason I've decided to do the geocaching to help get back into shape. BGunner01 I'd love to join the group on yahoo pm a link and I'll sign up!!! Also I wanted to ask what anyone thought of the EXPLORIST 100 or 200 from Magellan? Are they any good? Has anyone had problems with them and would it be a good all around GPS unit? And would I need to upgrade later?

I didn't look at your profile before but I did this morning. Talk about a small world!! I was born and spent the first 12 years of my life in Benkelman, NE. Really wow it is a small world!!!! I'm actually from Wray, Colorado but have always loved Benkelmen and McCook areas! I do live in McCook now and have been here about 8 years now. Benkelman use to have the combine demolation that was fun and the funniest thing I ever seen I sure wish they'd have them again!!! If you ever make it this way again email me and we could maybe have coffee and do some caching with you!!! So where are you at in Nebraska?

I know how you feel about the gas prices isn't it outrageous?!?!?! Everytime they go up I tell my husband that he needs to buy me a horse and buggy I know there are costs involved there too but corn is a lot cheaper than a gallon of gas . I'm pretty good about finding things so even without a GPS I think I'll fair pretty well. I've had to find a single key in the grass at night in a field that someone dropped once and they had me look for it. It took me about an hour but I found it for them.

Either a 1997 Dodge Grand Caravan all wheel drive or our 1997 Dodge Ram 2500 extended cab. But mainly the Caravan more room for the kids .

I was introduced to it two nights ago while online a friend on another forum was telling us about it and I went to the link she provided and that's how I begun LOL. Anyway my boys are ages 3, 4, 7 (He just had a birthday so I still am putting age 6 LOL) and 14. My 7 and 4 year old are the ones most interested in it. I wish my 14 year old was but he's into racing, football and paintball. There are few of his friends that I know that would be interested in it so I'm going to have him give them a call and see if they want to join with my boys so maybe that will start a spark in him to maybe do some more with this as well. Thanks Hairymon for the links I'll check them out!!! It's actually kind of rewarding finding them without a GPS for now but I know I'll need one for the ones that I have no idea about the terrain and location.

Whoo Hooo found it!!!! The last cache in McCook!!! Now on to the benchmarks!!!!

Thank you thank you thank you BGunner01 for the site lostoutdoors that just help me find the next cache!!!!!!! Going there now!!!!

Thanks all for the great welcome!! I found my second cache today right after the boys got out of school. Brandon (age 6) asked are we going to go now to find something LOL. It was really cute. Thank you also for all the great advice looks like I'll be saving up since we plan to do more in the summer that are further away. McCook just south of North Platte about 70 miles and Kearney is to the east about 100 or so and it's along the Kansas border and about 90 miles from the Colorado State line. So far there are only 3 caches in McCook two regular caches and one micro which we found today now all I have is the one of the regular caches to find which I have the general location but think I can find it pretty easily. I did look in to letterboxing looks like there is only one in Colorado that I could do for now none around McCook area but maybe I'll email a few people or talk to a few and get something started here. I also wanted to know if any of you do online scavenger hunts and if you know of any sites that do that? (something to do when the weather is bad ). As for other cachers in the area so far I only know of one but he's the one that has hidden the three caches in the area but I don't know if he's done any of the ones that are 25 miles out or better. I am going to email him after I get the last cache he has so maybe we could team up I think he's a kid but not for sure he may be out of school but not sure. But I'll ask him if there are others in town. Thank you all again and I'll let you know how we are doing without a GPS until we get one.

Thanks guys!!! I'll keep my eye out on ebay I didn't know they went that cheap on there . Anyway I've got two more places scoped out for today and can't wait til the summer to go to my home town in Colorado where I know the terrain quite well and already know exactly where 4 more are there or at least the area that they may be.

Hello my name is Mindy and a SAHM of 4 boys. We did our first Geocache today and found it the hard way without a GPS. At the moment we just can't afford one but I ran across the Geocaching site and thought the boys would love doing this with me and they did so more caching in the future for us. My question is there any sites that could help us locate the caches or give us more of an idea where the caches might be? This gets us out of the house and doing something as a family the boys seem to like it and were excited to see what the cache we got today was we also left other stuff for someone else and they were even happy about giving something up just to have an adventure. Thanks for any input any of you guys give.