billslake

I better start designing a steel anti falling satellite umbrella now if I'm going to get it to market with enough time to make a few bucks before 2012. An aluminum foil hat will do the trick.

The only DNF that I log is one where I suspect something happened to the cache. Otherwise, I prefer not to advertise my ineptitude.

US Army, active duty 1967-69. Vietnam, 1968-69 as an officer w/101st Airborne. Reserves until 1984. Did my Infantry OCS prior to such new-fangled things as GPS. Learned compass and map-reading which led to backpacking in the 80's and 90's, then a natural progression to geocaching.

As a retired history teacher, I have to add my two cents worth. When I was teaching I sometimes took my classes to a local cemetary to plot a section of graves, with info about dates of biryh and death. We would then look at local documents (newspapers, etc) to note causes of death, epidemics that wiped out all the children in families, etc. The students came to view cemetaries as rich historical sources . . . the same as i do. When I was in grad school a professor was doing research on cemetaries, noting that different thnic groups had significantly different cemetaries. If cemetaries were only for the dead, there would be no use for tombstones. I personally like cemetary caches, because most of them enhance my knowledge of the history of the area.