Edisto Patto

I was glad to have had the opportunity to find Mingo about 4 years when it was still in its original state and with all its original logs. Frankly I am surprised it has lasted this long given its easily accessible location. How many other "just off the exit" caches survive any length of time???? Most of the older caches that have survived require some amount of effort to find or get to. If I hadn't yet found it, I think I would still want to no matter what form it was in just for what the location represents to the geocaching community. I missed the opportunity to get the APE cache several years ago while out in Seattle for GeoWoodstock and was somewhat disappointed when it was archived. On the other hand, I have been fortunate that I have been able to find enough of the old caches to complete the Jasmer challenge as well as a number of other "oldest or first in the state" caches. It seems like a number of these caches have recently come under attack either by muggles (or folks with a personal vendetta), natural occurrences or construction. As more and more people take up geocaching and it becomes more well known, I think the amount of intentional destruction of caches is going to increase. My personal rule is "3 times muggled and its out" unless there is really a good reason to keep the cache going....If Mingo were my cache I would keep it going as long as I could before archiving but I would first see if someone else wanted to adopt it. Mingo is still Mingo although the cache page should be updated. JMHO

Just went Platinum!!!! Have 58 finds in 3 countries and 20+ US States plus the 3 required placements. Plan to work on developing a few more..

Colts 38---so says my husband!!!

Thanks ever so much for the trade. Received your Red/Gold coin the other day and sent my trade out today. Hope you like it. Also included 3 of those smaller bits of shiny metal (which are unmentionable here) to keep or put out in caches. Thanks again...Pat

I just checked and it seems to be working again--did not do anything other than reattach my gps

I Sent a TWEET to the gogeocaching Twitter page. According to the Twitter posts---they are back up. No mention of any problems.

I have been having the same error occur....hope it gets fixed soon!!! Glad its not my gps or computers.

Wow!!! Two of my favorite things: Tolkien and Geocoins!!!! Beautiful design. Antique gold would be my choice. Definitely would be a "gotta have" for me.

I don't know if this observation has any validity or not, but the last time I was involved in a coin frenzy on the Geocoin desgn site (for the Lady Luck coins) the same thing happened to me as far as not being able to access the site. I had been logged in and waiting and then got kicked out when the new coins were added and could not get back in for days on my primary computer. Luckily, I had 2 other computers up and running at the same time and when I saw I couldn't get in---tried one of the other computers and was able to snag the coins I wanted. I could also access the site from the 3rd computer. All 3 computers were running on the same network using a cable modem hs internet connection. The only thing I could think of at the time is that for some reason, my IP address on my primary computer was being blocked by the site (perhaps from trying too many times to access it??). The computer I placed my order from had a different IP address and was running through a VPN. The other computer that allowed me to access the site at the same time was a laptop using a wireless connection and also had a different IP address. As I said, I was blocked from accessing the site for 2 or 3 days on my primary computer while at the same time could access freely from the other computers. I did not have problems with the site last night but had the other 2 computers ready to go in case I did. The only problem I had was the 2 tone LE sold out bfore I could grab one.

Received my coins and wanted everyone to see how fantastic they are. I have activated the lead one that I will carry to events for Discovery only. Will let them age naturally. Thanks Scavok!!!!

I had a problem with logging into their site for several days after I had gotten kicked off their site just as the Lady Luck coins went on sale. I thought at first it was just traffic and it may have been so I kept trying to relog on time and again. Finally I gave up. Several hours later, I still was unable to log in. I was finally able to get into their site using my company computer which runs through a vpn (and luckily was still able to get the coins I wanted). So. my theory is that my IP address got blocked (I also use comcast). It wasn't unblocked for quite a while but it is ok now.