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Unfortunately their CAPTCHA sucks.. I've tried 4 times to read the letters and failed all four times. Not worth any more effort. @jgaiser I have decreased the complexity of the noise in the CAPTCHA. I do get two or three valid new users a month and about 15 or 20 invalid spambot registrations. Given this I was not aware that it was so hard for real people to read. I have not frequented the GC forums in several years so I am unlikely to see any thing posted here. Some of our locals that do visit here pointed out your comment to me. Please try to join our local forums again and if you still have trouble contact me directly.

Hey Wayne, you might try PDXgeocaching.com. Most local folks hang out there. Good luck. -soup Thanks for the info. I signed up but can't post any messages till I get comfirmation. I would really like to visit the plaque that started it all. I don't know if or when I would ever get out this way again. Wayne Sorry I am a bit late in the day. Your account on pdxgeocaching has been activated.

Hmmmm I knew there was a reason I stopped looking at these forums

Well I had hoped Haulin Cache would do a bit better, but it looks like he will only make 21 states (with my trip to Ohio via Atlanta last week) and fall short of my personal goal of 30,000 miles with 29,250. Oh sooooo close

Nope... The solvent ink will not run when wet so I do not bother. As for Michael's disks. They will work, but the bulk from the link about works to about 8 cents apiece and when you are doing hundreds that can add up. I usually spend an evening stamping and then am set for several weeks so the time is worth it to me.

Along with my wooden nickels, I also had a rubber stamp made. It is the same artwork you see on the wooden nickel in my original post. The stamp cost $12 and I will be using it in logbook entries. It also was produced at wooden-nickel.com. Using a stamp on blank wooden nickels sounds good also. I'd be interested in seeing how good it looks. How about posting a picture? Check out Fisur's page linked above, there is a pic on there. They look really good I think. It does require a solvent based ink (the pigment based commonly found will smear on the wood), available at any good stamp shop. My stamps were a bit more intricate and cost about $20 each. I do not remember the sight off hand, but there are many that can be found online. Once I got the stamps I removed them from the square mounts they came on and attached them to each end of a 1.5 inch diameter thread spool. Having a round mount the size of the nickels makes it a lot easier to center the image when stamping.

I often find myself asking this very same question. Can anyone explain to me exactly what it is about a traffic circle in the middle of a neighborhood street that makes people want to place a cache there???

I went with blank, bulk wooden nickels at $18 for a bit over 200. Then I had two custom rubber stamps made the same diameter as the nickels. This way I can produce more easily when needed and only have to pay the price of the blank nickels. Plus I have a stamp I can use as a sig stamp in log books if I choose

Will you post a thread about them in the NW forums, or will you only advertise them on the Oregon or PDX sites? I will post a thread on the NW forum as well as the EVC forum. However I suspect that the Oregon and PDX forums will be a bit more active in the design phase simply because that is where most of us hang out...

I have several Oregon coins, new in Air Tite cases. I will trade for anything except: Washington California Conejo Michigan Moun10bike USA Also keep your eyes out for Oregon coin version 2. We will probably be redesigning them for the spring 2005 run.

They will not do it for any more coins. It is more than just the DB hits, DB space is a factor as well. We tried with the Oregon coins, as did California, Texas, and several others. Simply not an option. As for selling just numbers, well there are plenty of others sites that do just that. GC is a profit machine now and there are many factors besides the basic ones you have given that they must consider...

Like most US Military surplus I believe it work be illegal to ship them outside the US...

The link on the main page is opening wrong. It opens in the frame with the navigation bar redrawn. When this happens I cannot seem to get to the tracking page. Had to right click and open in new window to get it to work correctly... Also agree that you should be able to log where you left them, not just where you found them. I tried Found in mailbox and a note for where I left it, but also get Server Error in '/WSGA' Application. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Runtime Error Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine. Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".

Wow... A note??? They just left mine on the porch...

One of my coins had a bad activation code on the sticker. I tried it twice, then sent an email to the site folks. Just a head up in case this happens to others.

You have a stoop?!?! Doesn't everyone older than 40???

Went home at lunch and found mine on my stoop They are really awesome!!! Got #24 to add to my collection and the others in the 1100s will go to a few lucky caches

I have some Oregon coins and would love to trade for some of these others. Anyone interested? Drop me an email...

Yup... And last I checked aluminum did not rust...

I have thought about buying a few USA coins myself, but $5 each is too steep. The Washington coins are only $5 each and they are full color. The Oregon coins come from the same place as the USA ones, are the same metal and only cost $2.35 including a protective case. I realise the USA coins are TBs, but like most coins I doubt they travel for long. Some day I break down and buy a couple, but for now I will just keep finding and moving them. Well all but the first one I found, whose goals is now to remain with me (big thanx to OhNo for making it so).

You could always look at that copy tag that came with the original too...

Well it does say "Visit www.Groundspeak.com to learn more about me...". Come on folks get a clue...

And exactly how is that going to help? If the want to keep it they will simply remove the tack little laminated tag, the little TB tag you spent $4 on, and give that cute little toy to their cute little 4 year old... Well obviously if they intentionally take it. I'm talking about the people who don't understand it's a travel bug. Snoogans' TB longevity strategy #4. Just the tag, in most cases, is not enough. TB goal sheets, the TB page, or a TB Passport, really let it be known that the item in question is in fact private property that has been left in public trust. Does the tag not say Travel Bug on it any more?? Seems like the "I did not know it was a TB" excuse really holds no water. This is right up there with people that find 2 caches then immediately hide 10. Learn the game, read the guidelines, play like you know what you are doing...

And exactly how is that going to help? If the want to keep it they will simply remove the tack little laminated tag, the little TB tag you spent $4 on, and give that cute little toy to their cute little 4 year old...

Soooo... if you are on a trip hundreds of miles from home, and you find a bug with no tag, it's perfectly fine to just grab the thing and fly it home, even if it loses months of travel towards a goal in a completely different direction? Expecially when it WAS pretty close to it's goal? Hmmmm... what is honestly tackier and really more annoying, completely messing up a TB's mission for a long time or just having some little laminated card attached to it? I would have to vote the card is tackier...