Woodroce

Hi, We have a person who has picked up our very first trackable and has had it for ten days. In that ten days the person has created ten pages worth of logs! First is was all "Took it to" logs. Pages and pages of these logs. Took it here, took it there. But the last several logs are "Placed it" and "Retrieved it" logs. Placing it in a cache and then taking it right back out? I don't understand. Some of the caches the person puts in it and takes it out of are not even active caches! I sent the person a message and asked them what they are doing because we don't understand. Also, the person is ignoring the travel bug's GOALS! This is our first trackable and we are disappointed in what is happening with it. Any advice? Why would someone do this with a trackable? I thought you were supposed to just pick them up and drop them off keeping their current goal in mind.

. Howdy! The first thing I did was get the Geo caching app for my android and it works with the gps in the phone. It's great! I think it cost seven dollars, but I am not sure. You don't need to put in the coords, the app takes care of that for you. Also, I highly, highly recommend that you pay the thirty bucks and become a Premium Member at Geo Caching dot com. We went on an adventure to the Adirondacks and being a premium member, I could download the caches into my phone's hard drive. Because there's no cell phone signal in the mountains, but you still get pretty decent GPS signal, you can still go caching. For me, it was worth the $30 to go premium just for me to save a huge list of caches in the Adirondacks to my phone so that we could go from GZ to GZ hassle-free. Also, be ready to buy a back up battery for your phone! You'll eat a battery up in no time. We always have one plugged in to the car's lighter jack while we are driving so we have a back up. We are new to this adventure, too. We just found our 56th cache today. I am really into it. I am finding that my Galaxy S III used to be really cool, but seems to be less & less reliable for us. I am always questioning the accuracy. I am constantly waiting for the thing to catch up. Plus, I am always wanting to use it for other things, like a PHONE, weather radar, text messages, calculator, camera, etc... So, I have decided that I must have a handheld GPS unit. I am just deciding which one. I think I have decided, but I need to do some more research. So, yeah... have fun. Your kids are going to love it. My seven year old has learned so much from our experiences caching. What a great experience for kids! The hardest lesson of all is patience! LOL Hope my advice helps. Just dive right in, that's what I did. Trust me, though, when I say- just drop the $7 for the app and the $30 for the premium membership right away. You'll be glad you did! It's sooo worth it. .

. I'm brand new to Geo-Caching. In fact, this is my first post. I have enjoyed reading this thread. I've learned a lot! I think the one thing that this newbie finds frustrating is when I go bounding off on foot for five miles, over hill & dale, through swamps and pricker bushes to finally find the cache, then discover a 65 foot trail to get back to my car. .