BrklynDox

Hello, fellow cachers and seekers. I’m retired in Broward County, Florida, and looking for partners to geocache around South Florida. Please contact me if you’re interested in adventuring around! Thanks.?

Thanks.

I'll be in Willmar for a few days and wonder if there are any geocachers who might want to spend an afternoon exploring caches or who might recommend great scenery and outdoor environs. Thanks!

On any cache page, click on 'geocaching.com google map'. Then at the top there is a search window. Type Portugal, then click 'search by address'. This will place the map in Portugal. Zoom out until you can begin to see caches appearing and then navigate the map along your planned route of travel. Pretty cool ain't it? YES! I was looking for that feature, as I used to use it prior to the website redesign. Thanks for the tip. That will do the trick, particularly as I already am quite familiar with the area I will be visiting.

I will be in Portugal at the beginning of October and plan to do some simple caching while there. Don't want to purchase European maps, so I plan to use paper maps and GPS together. Anyone have this experience? Would enjoy hearing your suggestions.

No, it is the micro sd that came with the vista that I have filled. Yes, I think I will get the bigger chip, load everything, and, as we say in Brooklyn, fuggedaboudit. Thanks for your advice. It always steers me right.

Searched all over the place on the Garmin site to no avail. Using maps that came with the unit and also City Navigator. I have exceeded the space limit on my micro chip. Two questions. How to: Find micro chip index to show what maps are installed? Delete all maps contained therein? Your advice is sterling and appreciated, as usual!

It is the same program but GSAK is easier to use. Plus it exports to Mapsource and lots other cool stuff! I use Easy GPS, after having a meltdown a long time ago with GSAK! I can get the caches to load into my computer with no prob. It is the CM converter that offers the syntax error, sometimes....Ideas?

Started using Cachemate to DL to my Palm TungstenE. Using the CM converter, sometimes I get a "syntax error" message. Some of my caches are listed by name and others by their call letters, but this doesn't seem to affect whether I get this error message. Ideas and suggestions welcomed, as usual! THANKS!

I would like to correspond with Portuguese geocachers! If you speak English, and want to share some of your caching adventures with a New York caching team, please write us! Thanks.

I am no pro - so maybe this will help or more likely you will think i am nuts. What i do in CMconvert is highlight all the caches and click FILE > Export PDB then it saves under a file name and asks for the palm name and whey i hot sync it loads them up. I hope this helps. I know it is so frustrating figuring this stuff out... Exactly the problem I am having. I can't get it to appear in the save window once I highlight it in the converter window and choose EXPORT.. Maybe I should try a different approach or different combination of software, like GPS Spinner?

So I read a few of these paperless forum posts, downloaded Cachemate, the converter, everything. I unzip it all and I am ready to go. I open the converter, a window pops open with my caches, downloaded with EasyGPS, etc. Opens in Cachemate in my PDA. Works like a charm.....the test run. NOW, though, when I try to download other caches into my Palm Tungsten E, the cache loads into the CM file converter, but when I highlight it for export, it will not show up in the SAVE AS window. The first, successful test download shows up, but none others. I know I should have explicitly written down my steps, but it seemd so easy at first. Any ideas from you Cachemate mavens?

AH, yes, I see how to do this now! Thanks.

How about a short description of this option on our Bookmarks list page? We downloaded it to see what it was, but can't open it in our computer. We are second-year cachers trying to advance skills a bit and explore what is available that we are not using. Thanks for your help!

I haven't been able to locate the instructions for creating our user profile photo gallery. Could someone please point me to it? Thank you!

I often visit the local dollar store for swag. We learned very quickly to carry along things of different sizes not only to accomodate the size of the cache, but also to avoid duplication. Key chains, tiny decks of cards, hair and wrist bands, moist towel packets, polished stones, micro toys and mini flash lights are frequent swag we trade. Hope to graduate to team geocoins one day! Have fun!

Found this on Google. Obviously it's the Manhattan version of the one I am describing to you.

Definitely not a cover. The three that I walk past are on three consecutive streets, on the corners, and definitely embedded in concrete. I will start to look down when I am walking around the neighborhood to see if there are more. Keep those ideas coming! Thanks!

Here is the lousy picture, just to give you an idea. Better one to follow. What do you think, Papa Bear?

But I am stumped. I noticed 3 disks embedded in the sidewalk on my walk home from the subway, one on each block. They are about 6 inches in diameter, bronze, look pretty aged. (I have a jpeg, not too clear, but I am not sure how to post it here in the forum.) Around the top it says: Borough President of Brooklyn, and around the bottom it says: Topographical Bureau. That is Brooklyn, New York, by the way. Only other mark is a sort of crosshair in the middle. I looked very closely and each are the same, with no area that looks like any sort of number or registration has rubbed off. So, any clues or ideas about what these are or where to research them?

Keep remembering that it is about the exploration, the fun and the quest, not about how many find numbers line up by your profile!

I think this is a great idea and actually logged onto this forum to investigate whether it was accepted form/protocol to leave clean-up supplies in cache site. Thanks for any info!

Happy Bugging! We have so much fun watching our TB move, when it does move! Enjoy!

Well, shut mah mouth. Now I know about discovery, but still, I think it is sort of annoying. HOWEVER, I appreciate the good sense of your geocaching expertise.

A cacher posts that they 'discovered' our TB in a cache, but it never got reposted anywhere else. SO.....I write to them and they say, we never took your bug. It's still in the cache. SO WHY POST, confuse everyone, and perhaps appear to not be telling the truth???? WAH WAH WAH, we want our little TB to move. Thanks for listening to our whining, or not........