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Amen to Sparrowhawk! Thank you for sharing this with us. As I read this I am going through a very difficult time of my life and I realize that I need to get back outside and get back to caching. I especially want to spend some quality time with my wife and I think that caching might fill the need for that - at least it won't hurt. I hope that I can still turn my life around while geocaching. Thanks to all of you for your postings.

how would i log it? there is no number on it. you would log it with a chain saw and a truck.

I agree. I was driving to work the other day and this guy in a Black LandRover Defender was checking out my Wrangler! Today we woke up in a snow storm and the Wrangler loved every bit of snow on the road.

the 'FIND' button? i guess i don't spend as much time on the geocaching website as others.

i was afraid someone would say that. i've been away for a while...

does anyone know if there's a problem taking a GPS on a commercial flight?

quote:Originally posted by Stu & Sarah:I rather like the http://www.gpsdrawing.com/ project. Their gallery is pretty cool. Stu yes, it looks like something on the Nazca Plains.

quote:Originally posted by Breaktrack:Hmmm, well, I have to agree with that posted above, it is amazing no Markwells have been inserted up to now....lol. But I suppose that's a good thing. can someone tell me what 'Markwell' means? i've seen this used many times, i understand it was originally someone's screen name? as for me...we were discussing my family's heritage one night at dinner and my kids (they have their mother's sense of humor) named me 'Squatting Dog'. Chevy Chase was named that in some movie.

quote:Originally posted by RuffRidr:You can use a GPS to mark the greens on a golf course. Then on subsequent visits you know how close to the green you are +/- 15 ft. --RuffRidr But isn't it hard on the GPS to whack it with a Five Iron?

Anybody have any interesting stories of novel uses of GPS's? For example, I recently heard of a woman that suspected her husband of seeing someone else, so she put a GPS in his car, then later retrieved it and followed the breadcrumbs to a motel.

quote:Originally posted by Criminal: quote:Originally posted by Squatting Dog:really great idea! i might even be able to get the right kind of props where i work! Yes, but can you mail me some? I may be able to trade something for them. http://fp1.centurytel.net/Criminal_Page/ well, the ones i am thinking of are pretty big and pretty heavy.

really great idea! i might even be able to get the right kind of props where i work!

more likely that some political bigwig lives on the stretch of overdeveloped road and had it widen/paved for his convenience. i've seen that before.

quote:Originally posted by Criminal:I have this great idea for a unique urban cache that would rock. The problem is I can't place it because I'm at work, and I can't tell anyone about it because the locals might see it. dadgum! And yes, I'm aware of how the combination of the subject header and my avatar tagline could appear... http://fp1.centurytel.net/Criminal_Page/ ok. curiousity has the better of me. send it to me too. thanks.

no. i don't respond to poles, czechs or germans.

both squatting dog and frazzledmom are IT folks for the USG. we'll be caching in/around brussels very soon.

quote:Originally posted by smithdw: quote:Originally posted by Squatting Dog:ok. i'll bite. where'd you get this thing? and how much $$ was it? i've seen them in europe, but never around here. quote:Originally posted by smithdw:Is this what you're talking about.... http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/27079_300.jpg The base vehicle is a highly modified Mercedes Benz Unimog chassis with a custom body, completely new power plant, computer controlled suspension, and integrated electrical, hydraulics and electronics systems. Many of the onboard navigation, power, lighting, communications, computation and electro-optics systems were developed specifically for this vehicle. Here are the http://www.maximog.com/specs.html#BASICSPECS <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I wish that it was mine.... There's an article in the June 2003 Discover magazine on it. The owner won't tell how much it cost, but said it was $millions. It took 5 years to build. The owner, Brian Ferren, used to be the head of Disney's Imagineering research. "The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec." -Marcus Dolengo<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Well now I don't feel so inadequate! "Refrain from talking to characters on the screen. Tests have proven they cannot hear you."

ok. i'll bite. where'd you get this thing? and how much $$ was it? i've seen them in europe, but never around here. quote:Originally posted by smithdw:Is this what you're talking about.... http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/27079_300.jpg The base vehicle is a highly modified Mercedes Benz Unimog chassis with a custom body, completely new power plant, computer controlled suspension, and integrated electrical, hydraulics and electronics systems. Many of the onboard navigation, power, lighting, communications, computation and electro-optics systems were developed specifically for this vehicle. Here are the http://www.maximog.com/specs.html#BASICSPECS

quote:Originally posted by Pick:Hi everyone! My name is Pick, and I'm responsible for a great number of the caches around Brussels, among others. I had this idea one day, that we could set up a kind of geocaching hosting network around Belgium, so that potential geocachers could find a cheap accomodation. It would be a great opportunity for us, hosts, to meet people who share our great hobby! Maybe some of us, Belgian geocachers, have a guest room that they would be ready to rent for a few euros a night to geocachers from around the world. Then, who knows, if it works in our small Kingdom, we could then extend the system to other countries! If you have anything to say about this project I would be happy to hear about it! Looking forward to getting your reactions, Pick hello, pick, my family and i are moving to brussels this summer. any tips/suggestions you have for geocaching there would be appreciated. thanks, squatting dog

quote:Originally posted by Stunod:It's a bug that will soon be fixed. It was discussed http://ubbx.Groundspeak.com/6/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=5726007311&f=8016058331&m=73260725 http://208.55.63.109/images/homer.gif __"Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand."__ thanks!

i've been away from the site for a while. i see a new format for our personal profiles and that some of the info entered into the profile does not appear in the new format - also, the new format has spaces for info about us, like 'about (name of geocacher)' - or something like that, but no way to edit that field. did i miss something while i was gone?

quote:Originally posted by Tomebug:My husband and I were camping for the first time together about 10 years ago. We were laying on a blanket by the fire (now coals) looking at the starts. I saw what I thought was a satellite moving slowly across the sky. As I watched, it just stopped. I remember thinking it was as if it just parked, and looked just like any other stationary star. Don't know what the heck it was. i grew up in the country and remember seeing many satellites in the nighttime sky. they always completed their track across the sky and never appeared to stop. i don't know what you saw when you were camping, but it couldn't have been a satellite. maybe it was the 'mothership'?

quote:Originally posted by Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking:Ooooh please share stories. I love to hear about haunted places. ***************** Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang interminable changes On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated -- so: "Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges -- "Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!" Rudyard Kipling , The Explorer 1898 [This message was edited by Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking on April 23, 2003 at 03:49 AM.] just the usual footsteps, flying things, lights going on and off and faces in windows!

this is all pretty interesting - i grew up in an old farmhouse that was supposed to be haunted. so this brings back some memories!

you can hit "i spy" and "db cooper" caches easily as they are in the same park.