His_little_lamb

I am for the first time starting a travelbug of my own, actually two travelbugs. One I'm making my bicycle the travelbug (TB213GR) and the other one is a normal little stuffed animal dog(TB213JF). I have both of their goals to compete with each other. On April 30th, my family and I will be flying down to Pensacola, Florida and then riding our bicycles to Owen Sound, Ontario following the Underground Railroad (it'll take about 2 months). Of course I will be geocaching along the way. I leave the dog travelbug in Florida and its job is to try to beat me and the Bike Bug to Owen Sound. If you want to kept track of our progress just watch the bugs' webpages. There aren't pictures up yet, but their will be soon when I get around to it. What do you think?

My family and I are going on a 2 month bicycle trip from Pensacola, Florida to Owen Sound, Ontario (following the Underground railroad) and I'm going to see which can get to Owen Sound first, me (and the travelbug I'll carry with me) or the travel bug I'll leave in Pensacola. If you live around Pensacola please be on the lookout for a new travel bug a cache near you on April 30th. I have yet to receive the travelbugs so I haven't named them yet. I'll update this thread one I have their tracking names and names. If you live anywhere between Pensacola and Owen Sound and come across it, please move it on quickly. Its goal is to get to any cache with in 5 miles of Owen Sound before me. Please help it not to sit stuck in some cache no one ever visits. If this is off topic and only belongs in the travelbug section then I apologize to the moderators. I put it here because I wanted to get the message out to geocachers who weren't looking in the travel bug section

My family and I are going on a 2 month bicycle trip from Pensacola, Florida to Owen Sound, Ontario (following the Underground railroad) and I'm going to see which can get to Owen Sound first, me (and the travelbug I'll carry with me) or the travel bug I'll leave in Pensacola. If you live around Pensacola please be on the lookout for a new travel bug a cache near you on April 30th. I have yet to receive the travelbugs so I haven't named them yet. I'll update this thread one I have their tracking names and names. If you live anywhere between Pensacola and Owen Sound and come across it, please move it on quickly. Its goal is to get to any cache with in 5 miles of Owen Sound before me. Please help it not to sit stuck in some cache no one ever visits.

How is it better? I don't have gmail but I make an account and try that, thanks for the idea.

I know how to do pocket queries, get the gpx file and then convert in on my mac and make it work for my Magellen explorist 210. But aparently the rules have changed... Now when I download the file from my yahoo email instead of having a file entitled something like "1235015.zip", I have one called "secure download" which does nothing with my convert program (GPSBable). Did geocaching.com start using a different file type and me and my mac get left in the dust? I sure hope I don't have to go back to entering caches manually...

I log most of my DNFs, but if I already have a DNF on a cache I quit logging all the new DNFs. There are only a few caches that I've had more than 1 DNF on anyway.

Ah ok. The picture that you originally posted was the exact same as mine (with the words "cake created by His_little_lamb on the bottom). Did you get it from my profile? (not that I mind)

A virtual cache is one that isn't there. The co-ordinates simply take you to some interesting spot. To log the find you answer a question that the owner has put on the cache page. The answer can be figured out from something at the site. There can not be any new virtual caches, geocaching.com has discontinued them. But they allow the existing ones to remain. An example of a virtual cache is here

Sounds great, only problem is that the watch I wear is digital...

I have a GPS and it serves my needs right now, but next summer I'm going on a long bicyle trip (I'm talking 2+ months) and will be going many miles. My current GPS (Magellen explorist 210) only has enough memory to handle a detailed map section about the size of Ohio. I don't want to have to reload map sections every week. So I'm looking into getting another GPS. I don't want to spend much money though. Is there a good Magellen GPS with either a large internal memory or expandable memory that you could recommend? It should be Magellen so it works with the map system I already have.

Yep, thats my cake. ( it even says so on the picture) Glad you liked it. It was nice meeting you too. Rockin Roddy-- sorry the blue was eaten first that day kingsting-- that is a cool cake. Did you make it? Keystone-- There was another thread about my cake? I'm famous and didn't even know it! How can I tell which post are from the other thread?

Actually, I do take orders. But only if you are willing to come to NE Ohio to pick it up!

Hmmm.... I'd have to say that its people's own fault if they tresspass. Yes put a warning on the cache page but ultimatly its the cachers responsiblity to not break any laws. The same thing goes for all other laws in the USA, ignorance is no excuse. I once tresspassed in private property to get to a cache. I was new at it and assumed that it was a cacher's field. I had not read the cache page and learned that it was on a public trail behind the property. It was no ones fault but mine that I did that and I had to deal with the concequences. (questioning by property owner, having the police called and putting myself at risk from the property owner's rotwiellers!) I learned from that and will never again seek after a cache without being certian that I'm getting to it legally. Personal responsibility is what I believe.

Yes, later on people ate from the cake. When I got up to it in line it was about half gone and I think later it may have been totally eaten. ClayC- that would be cool to do an ammo can. It would be harder but not impossible. Monkeybrad- Nice cake! I love the pretzel bridge. -edited for a spelling error-

Actually it was quite easy. I've done a lot harder. I only had to use two different tips the whole time, #4 and #18. and to H2OBob: sorry the cake wasn't spice. It was bannana chocolate chip.

ahh.. ok, then they must be from geocaching.com, I'm not familiar with the Hider, Finder, Stalker and Sue firm. Nope, I didn't find the chevy, I didn't come anywhere near winning but thats ok, I had fun. His_little_lamb read my edited post above. I see it now, thanks for the info. It looks like I was just fine then. The cake wasn't wasn't commercial (I didn't sell the cake) and I certianly didn't make more than 25 of them!

Sorry, it was the heaver buttercream icing. I can decorate better with it than with a whipped frosting.

ahh.. ok, then they must be from geocaching.com, I'm not familiar with the Hider, Finder, Stalker and Sue firm. Nope, I didn't find the chevy, I didn't come anywhere near winning but thats ok, I had fun.

Why?

What do you think of the cake that I made for the "Dude, Donde esta mi Chevy?!" geocaching event yesturday? I do cakes and just had to bring one to this event when I saw that all participants should bring a dessert. I imagine that geocaching.com didn't mind me borrowing their logo. (If this is in the wrong forum section could a moderator please move it? Thanks)

Great idea..but MY Money will be on the Travel Bug. hee hee yeah probably It depends on what geocachers it hitches a ride with. I've seen some travelbugs with goal to go somewhere and first they travel thousands of miles the opposite direction. lol

I've ridden my recubent bike to many before but never a unicyle. Have fun on that.

So a couple of nights ago I was trying to fall asleep and I came up with this travelbug idea. In the summer of '08 myself and my family plan to ride our bicyles cross country. I was thinking it would be fun to drop a travel bug in Colorado where we start and race it cross country to Maine. I'd attach a tag to it stating its goal. I think that would be really fun. What do you think?

I had read an article in the newspaper a while ago and then decided to check out geocaching when I bought a GPS. I started looking into it and found geocaching.com before the gps arrived and I couldn't wait to get started. My first geocache ended up being one that I walked a mile and went through 10 feet of briars to get to it. Plus poison ivy and walking around the edge of a lake most the way to get there. I was going from the vacation cabins on a big lake to the cache, and I didn't really know what I was doing. But still I was hooked. I'm still a relative newbie with only 40 finds, but I think I understand it better now. Some of my family thinks I'm nuts to tramp through the woods through all the stick-tights, poison ivy, thorns and everything. But my little sisters like it.

I also have a mac and a palm. Another member suggested what I use, Cachemate. Its not free but it only cost about $8. To convert the gpx files to the right kind for the palm I use MacCMconvert. It is a free download. After I got my palm I waded through the muck of trying to see what would work with mac and palm and this is the only thing that I found to work. I couldn't get plucker to work, but maybe you can. Anyway, Cachemate and MacCMconvert work wonderfuly for me.