HJS

I recently bought a Venture and I like it. But I'm having second thoughts. Is the Legend a lot better? It seems that the map capability of the Legend is superior. How detailed is the basemap in the Legend? What map data is available for downloading? It seems there is no capability to download maps into the Venture. Or am I wrong, ahem, misinformed. Again, I like the Venture but wonder if I should have spent the extra 80 bucks for more bells and whistles. Thanks for your input HJS still new at this geocaching

" What I would LOVE to hunt instead would be an offset cache whose published coordinates took me to a point in an open clearing, where there would be good GPS reception, then I would be told (either in the published clues or at that spot) to proceed on a compass bearing of XXX degrees, for a distance of YYY yards, straight into a jungle thicket at the bottom of a ravine. Would be different/much more fun, and perhaps easier to find, than the "stumble for 45 minutes around the bottom of the ravine trying to get more than 2 satellites" routine." That sounds like a good way to hunt a cache under thick cover. I think I' really enjoy that. Should be listed in the cache description!

For the last few days in the public forum they have been posting links to 'geocache bills' to be tagged (whatever that means) Some of those bills have zero or one hit, but (I guess) mention geocache in the user notes. That's why I asked if anyone knows whats up. I'm not sure what's going on. So I thought I'd ask here. If all they are doing is keeping them out of the top ten, I guess we can say, nothing's up. I do recall about 2 weeks ago a couple of malcontents were needling the heck out of the moderator about 'geocache georges' (HEY, did I just make up a new word??). Just asking if something is up. At the same time I thought I might get some folks to talk about combining geocaching and wheresgeorge. Since I am new to this, I am interested in what you got to say about that. Thanks for your replies to my original post!

What's up with wheresgeorge.com?? Looks like theyre collecting links to bills that have visited geocaches. Are they trying to get rid of them? That would be too bad. I'm new to geocaching and to wheresgeorge but it looks to me like the two could complement each other. I have found 3 marked bills, and when I find one, I leave one of my marked bills. Anyone else here leave wheresgeorge dollars?