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If anyone knows geocaching.com users twhite38 and/or pastorcjwilliams, please ask them to put my travel bugs Coca-Dayo and Darth Whiskey (respectively) into some caches! They've had them since June. My first two travel bugs ever, each retrieved the day after being released, and they've never logged ANY miles. I've sent each user one email via geocaching.com to remind them; I've gotten no replies. Thanks!

Recently garyj97 and I found a spot where a cache should be, including the glue or caulk that held the container. We logged it as a Needs Maintenance. We uploaded a photo and the owner has temporarily disabled the cache until he can fix it. There was no log to sign, and no container to put a new, signed, log into, therefore it's not a good find. Did everyone see the period at the end of the previous sentence?

Someone has to say it: You can Waymark that: http://www.Waymarking.com/waymarks/default...c8-8f4cafe02680 Your geocaching.com login works on Waymarking.com

That glow in the dark stuff will "glow" under ultraviolet light. battery Ultraviolet handheld lights can be had. Just a thought.

Over this past weekend someone posted a visit from March to a waymark that I created in early July of the same year. http://www.Waymarking.com/waymarks/details...7f-b5f23fa9eac8

There are some who say one should always log a visit when creating a waymark. I log a visit to all the ones I own. I visited. So I log it. I believe this is one of the ways Waymarking DIFFERS from virtual caching. Eventually, I'll visit someone else's waymark. I'll log that too, but I won't own it.

"unable to select database"

MS Streets & Trips with the GPS dongle (Pharos, with one of the SiRF II series of chips in it, I think) Garmin GPSmap 60Cx I highly recommend the latter. I -still- intend to play with the former with a bluetooth cradle...someday.

That'd be interesting. I visited something billed as an "Historical Marker" recently that turned out not to be a Texas Historical Commission marker.... It was an "At this place..." Okay, it was actually a "Near this place..." but I assume that'd still count.

I have a Visor Platinum with one patch (from the Palm site) running v.3.5H.2.1.5 or something. I use CacheMate just fine, feeding it with GSAK from my Windows computer.

Oh wow. Those are GREAT!

The Texas Historical Markers don't require a photo upload to visit.

If the cache page says that its with the owner's consent, then I will go -look- at it. From reading about humanloofa's cache, I'd probably do that one, next time I go to his area. As yet, though, I drive away from the others. It's bad enough when there's s private home nearby, much less if the cache is on someone's home property!

I had not. Thanks!

I'm not sure where this is supposed to be. So I'm going to put it here! I just want to make my opinion known. I think all the grandfathered cache types that have become Waymarking types should -move- off of geocaching.com and on to Waymarking.com. All the existing logs should move with them. BUT: I think, in the user profiles, that waymarks visited should show up where virtual caches show up now....that way no one loses their counts. I think the waymark forums should stay right where they are. I also think that the benchmarks should move too, especially since the non-USGS benchmarks are being handled in Waymarking.com. Just my opinions. Thanks for reading. Discussion welcome.

Well, now that I've made comments in response to other people's posts, I guess I'll 'splain my SN. One day, a few years ago, I was at work, lurking on a big conference call. (I really only needed to know the result, not actually participate.) Anyway, the call started with a problem and simple solution already determined. Over the course of the call, the solution became incredibly complicated. Based on the "common version" of Occam's Razor, "The simplest solutions is usually the best," I protested by immediately running out to AOL/AIM and Yahoo/YM and trying to register "occam." Of course it was already taken so I ended up with occam001 on each. Later, a livejournal user got me started on that site and occam was taken. I didn't want to use the 001 there so I didn't register...the following day he suggested 0ccam (that's a zero) and it worked, so I am using that on livejournal.com, geocaching.com, Waymarking.com, navicache.com. Google Mail required 6 characters, so it's something else. I try to get "0ccam" anytime I can, and "occam" if that fails, I'll fall back to the IM names, I guess.

And there was a character on Kim Possible... I watch too much TV. That's decreased since I began 'caching....

Quite a den of cats you have there. I like short-haired cats. It isn't just the hair, either. Long hair cats just seem less active. Maybe it is my imagination. Longhaired cats ARE less active. Until one gets them trimmed. We have a long haired tabby....he gets bouncy when his hair is short (in the hot months--most of them here in TX).

The posts where the explanation doesn't fit the name amuse me. I guess that's from the name change capability that was recently stopped?

I think I remember some service whereby a pet could be embedded in a "jewel." Perhaps that could be done with some human remains...I am finding that I like the idea as well!

I do too...sorta. I don't intend to have a grave, but I do want a cache as a memorial!

FWIW, I don't treat my sig item as a tradeable thing. If I trade, then I really trade..AND leave a sig item. If I don't trade, and a sig item will fit, I'll leave it. No matter WHAT, though, I sign the log.

I leave a small wooden disk with my handcarved stamp on one side and a Stampin Up! compass rose stamp on the other. http://occamm.googlepages.com/0ccam%27ssignatureitems

I use a small backpack that used to zip onto a bigger piece of rolling luggage (until that zipper broke). It carries my GPSr (when I'm not holding it), my PDA, a pen, kleenex, and my digicam in the front pocket; my bag of trade stuff, spare batteries (AA and AAA), compass (when I'm not holding it), spare ziplocs (cache repair), pad of paper, wetnaps, bug repellent, sunscreen, and a small sharpie. The pack is smaller than the pack I used to carry books for college. It's probably the size that an elementary school student might have.

I bought my first, a Garming GPSMAP 60Cx from GPSExplorer.com. It arrived when promised, in good working condition. I haven't had any other experience yet.