Rich the Bushwhacker

I was surprised to see the auction end up at $76. I guess green jeeps are in demand as collectibles. We'll have to see if my Travel Bug ends up back in circulation.

I contacted the seller. He picked the two travel bugs up from an estate sale, has no idea what geocaching is. I offered to send him $10 for shipping, but someone bidded the Ebay auction up to $15 bucks before he cancelled the auction. In the end I decided to let the auction go and take my chances on the buyer putting it back in circulation. I'm guessing buyer only wants the Jeep. I figured the seller would just put the TB's in the trash if we reported them stolen to ebay. Currently, the auction is at $51 with two days left.

A cacher alerted me to one of my travel bugs on Ebay. I've contacted the seller to see if I can get it back for the cost of shipping. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Geocaching-Vintage-Old-Style-Travel-Bug-X-2-One-Is-Pretty-Green-Jeep-Other-Is-/122289694399?hash=item1c7908a6bf:g:Z78AAOSwImRYZEBx

Took me a week, but finally figured it out with the use of the hint.

I took about a 350 mile round trip ride to find this one. It was a nice day, and my motorcycle needed a good run. Lots of Zero's It was the nearest Degree Confluence to the House with a cache. I ended up wandering in the woods for about a half hour before I gave up trying to get my GPS to show all Zero's on the longitude and latitude.

I picked up a space pen. It's usefull for me because I have a horrible track record with pens. This one has a caribiner so I can attach it to my pack and never leave it behind.

What did/do you leave in a cache(s) worth mentioning? I left a 1700 year old Roman coin once. I hand cleaned it myself and it came out pretty good. It had a nice picture of Constantine on the front and a Roman warrior on the back. Optional additional answers: Why did/do you leave it? I thought that was pretty cool, I left it as a FTF prize. Did you watch the logs to see if it was mentioned after your visit? Yes Were you disappointed if it wasn't mentioned the way you thought it would be or wasn't mentioned at all? The finder mentioned he picked it up.

I switched from buying New Ammo to Military Surplus Ammo so I could get good containers.

Homeland security is probably watching the area. It's a major corridor for the import of power for California. Three DC power lines into the LA basin provide much of the power to the area. It's one of a list of likely targets that are the goverment's watchlist. Since 2001, survelliance methods have become more sophisticated, it's likely overflights in the area have picked up unusual activity. You wouldn't notice them as they fly 20,000 feet or higher and rely on advanced optic and infrared sensors to monitor the area. Wikipedia actually has a page on the line, which is called Path 27, or the Intermountain DC power transmission corridor. Path 27

Face downwind when opening the cache and signing the log. Avoid breathing near it. It's elimated my mold allergy problems, which are quite severe.

I've done it once. I even came up with name for it, GeoAuditing. You combine the neccessary task of replacing a log book and add the fun of an audit, - GeoAuditing. Actually, I was curious about who was logging my cache and what they wrote in the paper log. I found about 10% of the logs in the book never logged it on the Geocaching website and everyone who logged online signed the paper log.

I often follow the arrow to the cache. I've never felt the need for a machete. The one time we used a machete for caching was when we took a canoe up a narrow river. It's helpful for cutting back the picker bushes, they can cause real damage when they slide down your arm as you canoe by.

I've got asthma and mold like this sets it off. Sometimes bad enough to pull out the inhaler so I can get back to the car. I've never seen it as a problem, once I figured out what the probem is. I just hold the log downwind and sign at arm's length.

Homemade Jerky and dehydrated fruit for snacks. For long trips I add an Onion bagel for lunch. My last hike I tried the Mountain House dehydrated ice cream sandwich. It was pretty tasty and definitely a unique snack.

SiminSue came up with my name. I tend to follow the arrow on the GPS through swamps, briars, streams and other fun terrain.

When I first started using GSAK, I ran into the problem with archived and disabled caches not being removed. From my experience there's two practical options: 1) Use a filter on the Last GPX column to identify to caches that haven't been updated and delete manually. 2) Delete the database and reload with fresh PQ's. Usually I choose to delete the database and load new queries as it's the easiest option and results in the freshest data. It's a pain to reload on my Palm, but it works.

I hate them because they're in the middle of a parking lot. I started Geocaching to get back in the outdoors, not drive from store to store to sign little pieces of paper. Another reason I detest them is the turn off factor for new people to the sport. When my brother who lives a 1000 miles away bought a GPS, I asked him to try out Geocaching because it was fun. He found the first one brought him to a storm grate, the second brought him to a Light pole, and the third brought him to a private residence where someone had a cache on the porch. He emailed me back that it wasn't fun, he didn't find any trails or interesting spots. After that he never logged into his account again and gave it up. It took me two years to get him to try it again. When I recently visited him, we drove down a road full of caches. They were all on strip mall row in the parking lots. We eventually found a few in the woods, but they were the rare exception in his area. He promised to try again, but he said he wouldn't try his local area as it was too hard to sort out all the parking lot trash.

Why do you feel the need to publish this on your profile page? It looks like you just want to publicly chastize your brother and another cacher for some perceived wrongdoings.

I haven't seen one in years, but it is a big world. My thread on Jeep TB attrition has been following the reducing number of moving Jeep travel bugs. My latest numbers are from August, based on those numbers: 9%, or 355 of the 5000 Yellow Jeeps are still moving. (defined as moved in the last 90 days) 14% or 620 of the 5000 White Jeeps are still moving. Of course, moving could mean someone just dropping and picking up the Jeep from a cache periodically and keeping the bug.

If anyone decides to build one of these, keep in mind GPS is becoming more and more vital to navigation, health and safety applications and commercial uses. It's not just for geeks and surveyors any more. The FAA would not be amused if someone put one near an airport. GPS with WAAS has become an integral part of navigation for aircraft. Google FAA and GPS if you want to see the details of their Nextgen naviagation program.

I wouldn't fix it. My philosophy is a cache owner should be responsible for maintaining a dry cache with at the least a clean usable log. Caches owned by absentee owners should be flagged with a Needs Maintenance when they have a damp container, a full log, or other problems. A Should be Archived should be used for caches that are clearly not maintained, or where a Needs maintenace log has not been attended to for several weeks.

Lithuim disposable batteries are a good choice in cold weather. They aren't affected as much by the cold. They aren't cheap, but are worth it if you spend time outdoors in winter.

Usually, I can identify a Geocacher because they're walking along holding the GPS like Spock holding a tricorder.

While I'm on my around the world motorcycle tour, I'd like to stop in and visit this cache as a stop over. GC9734 - Blue caves Of course, I've still got to figure out how to get a year leave of absence from my job, buy a KLR650 and come up with about 20 grand to fund the trip. It's probably not going to happen, but I still spend a buck a week on a powerball ticket hoping my numbers come up.

Travel Bug has been recovered thanks to Condoqueen & Leedr and RREngineer. Thanks to everyone for the help to recover this bug. According to their cache log, Condoqueen & Leedr picked up a nice container for use in placing another cache.