funkymunkyzone

Super annoying for someone like me right now trying to plan a big US road trip, centering on certain caches and trying to get a list of caches nearby.... no I don't want a list of caches near my home, some 10000km away... lol

Finally got to do some travel to new places again, bagging Indonesia (specifically Bali), Laos and Malaysia - bringing up 86 countries. Bali was pretty nice, as we totally avoided the crowded, noisy, tourist party nightmares of Kuta and Seminyak. In Laos we saw just about the most beautiful waterfall in the world, while in Malaysia we didn't see a great deal, but did buy a lot of Lego from Legoland : D

I just started going through a backlog of about 4000 drafts, left over from a bug with the field notes years ago... The vast majority had already been logged correctly, so mostly I'm just going through and deleting them one by one. But I did find one that I had not logged from about 2013. I'll probably find more in the roughly 3900 I have yet to go through...

Self imposed and obviously lack of commitment. See this for appropriate level of commitment:

I found the toy she was playing with...

Ah now I get you. Tbh I had not noticed, probably because the app etc never updates for us in New Zealand until well into the night anyway - so even when we find a cache or ad lab for the current day it doesn't tell us. I guess it's more noticeable if you expect it to work and it doesn't. We just don't ever rely on it!

The streak challenge, and souvenirs, does include ALs. If not then I owe Groundspeak a couple of souvenirs back.

I found a stash of heroin. I didn't take it and left the area pretty quickly after finding that and realizing that there was a drug deal currently underway in the vicinity of GZ.

But you do have the souvenir.

Indeed, even between website and app...

The seven day souvenir.... worked! Yay

Proof again that you're just ahead of your time

I was curious so listened in. It was really interesting.... but it seems like those 2 virtuals were not Aug 2000 but in fact Aug 2002 anyway. There seems to be more to this twisted tale - changing hide dates to suit?!

4 day streak now but nothing. Was hoping they'd fix it once back in the office on the 5th, but maybe they're on a longer holiday. For most of the seasoned cachers, who know this happens from time to time, we would know this will get sorted, and of course there will be a lot of cachers who dont care at all. But it must be a bit disheartening for less experienced cachers, who might just think they've done something wrong and don't understand how the game works, if they've seen this promo and it has encouraged them to get out caching. My impression is that they are the target market in which case this is quite the fail. Anyway, maybe tomorrow it will be fixed. Hopefully not too long or there might be a bunch of people who would have been keen but who give up and make it impossible to even try for the hard souvenir.

They are aware of the issue.

Yeah I was worried about that last month with the logging on 20 individual days, but it seemed to all work perfectly. If it doesn't work this month though, that's going to entirely mess with the whole streak challenge - I have found and logged on 2 consecutive days but it doesn't recognise it... :/

Nearly midday on the 4th of July here.

Completed a 2 day streak so far - one cache find and one ad lab - but no souvenir received. I can't tell from the description of this month's streak challenge - maybe ad labs don't count this month? Anyone else having an issue?

Yeah, I don't really recommend combining blizzards and popping out while in transit. It was a bit silly. I've also had plenty of in-transit cache dashes in fine (ish) weather - LAX, Oslo, Frankfurt, St Johns (rented a car and visited the most easterly north american cache), Houston. I think the Frankfurt dash may have been my first visit to Germany, but I've been back a few times and collected all the states as well.

The first time I cached in Canada (not the first visit to Canada by a long shot, and have since found many caches there) was on a transit stop through Vancouver (from sunny NZ to sunny Portugal). There was a cache near the Elephant & Castle pub a few km down the road from the terminal. It was a snow storm at the time, but we raced out anyway, caught a bus down to the end of the island where the cache was, and then headed back to the bus stop. The snow was really pelting down by now, like full on blizzard, everything was white including the roads, and when we got back on the bus there was just the bus driver and one airport worker on the bus having a conversation - that went something like this: "The weather is getting pretty bad, eh" "Yep" "You guys keep driving?" "No, we're shutting down, this is the last bus". It would have been about a 3.5km trudge back to the airport through the snow!

Would have been on this list already if it wasn't for COVID - the trip to Atlanta, and several other southern states, was being planned when it hit the fan.... So it's just triple for now.

No reason you can't have a Jasmer Challenge cache that "promotes" triple or quadruple Jasmer, so long as the actual challenge is just single, and there's no suggestion that anything further than single Jasmer is required for the challenge cache. That's what I have done with the Jasmer challenge cache that I own.

Just don't miss the site of the very first geocache hidden outside of the US... https://coord.info/GC892XR

I just need to get back to Norfolk Island and the Philippines and I'll have all countries I've visited covered. That is, ignoring those where I just visited an airport in transit, like Panama.

Or that might be a good reason to change one's username.....