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I did three caches today - 2 in NB with Bzzliteyr, and 1 in PEI. I'm downtown Charlottetown right now updating website stuff since my arranged motel, well, didn't have anything... aargh...

I finally did a cache near Bradford last night. Left a few X-TREME GPS TEAM cd's and tapes, and a geocoin - took a TB. I also left Bradford one GPS lighter than when I arrived, but you have a family of 4 cachers now (JAMBoree).

I'm in Thunder Bay - caching has been a bit tough... I'm sure I've driven right by tonnes... LOL Leaving here by 10 am eastern for Sault Ste Marie. No modifications. stock in every way, and no cruise control either. Air pressure was bumped up a bit on Sept 1 - and I achieved 113 mpg (imperial) on two fills while on the way from Prince Albert to Yorkton - and that's with 125 kg+ of cargo and 'stuff'. I'll be going for 100 miles per US gallon on the return trip I think. I need a couple boxes in Winnpeg for packing stuff into.

I am in EDM right now, near downtown, right beside a Tim Horton's - departing in the AM. I hope to do 1 cache here at least. Have only 30 minutes to do this. Thank you for all your help folks, I will be utilizing many of these ideas and offers.

That's handy - I'll be trying that too. I have 10 PQ's run already for key places I'll be. I even came across a very very remote cache in Quebec that has no finds and you can only get there by boat... and I'm on that boat... with an hour stop there roughly... but I don't know if I can get it... will be interesting. I will however get that new cache in Natashquan.

From Birch Hills, it looks like 3, 6, 5, 35, 16... then I'm in MB heading to WPG... this is the eastbound journey... depart Birch Hills on Sept 1 in the am.

I'm still open to (many) suggestions for relatively quick caches to do in certain places I'm staying.

I'll be looking up that cache and event for sure. Dagg - I'll be in Victoria Sunday. Okay - the event is out, as I will be on a ship in the St Lawrence on that day. However, the NB cache is on my route. Sept 10th will see me there as I head to Charlottetown. I think I'll have spent the night in Grand Falls, NB on the 9th camping, unless I get an offer of accomodations there.

I will enter Labrador via the ferry from from St Barde to Blanc-Sablon, about a 1.5 hour sailing. Then I take the Relais-Nordik's 36 hour sailing from Blanc-Sablon to Natashquan where the highway begins (back to Montreal)... I hope to do some remote caches on short stops if we're allowed off... Sure, L/100km is how you will find my economy listed as well, but calling the website 2pt8litresper100km.ca was kinda, well, not that appealing... 100 mpg is a bit of an urban legend. There's the 100 mpg carburetor conspiracy of course, and then we also have (in Canada) the price hitting higher than 100 cents per litre. And then there's the price of oil predicted to hit $100 a barrel. Anyway... the energuide still shows both numbers, and that's straight from the government. Canada has never fully made it to metric in the same way Europe did.

Great event. Thanks to everyone who came out!

PS - I'll be on the road for about 33 days. Except for the two days I am on the water in NF and Labrador.

I'll be in Birch Hills soon to do a cache or two... hope there are a couple nearby. Should be there on August 31.

Hi all, I'll be setting out for St Johns, NF on August 28th. Starting my journey in Victoria. I'll be crossing Canada in my smart car, and the goal is to do it on $500 of fuel or less, and also achieve several tanks with fuel economy of 100 mpg or greater. (Imperial gallons BTW, of which my best thus far is 93.) There is a travel bug activated for this special trip: http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=78856 (Thanks to the Love Bugs for the TB tag!) At least 1 geocache will be done in every province, and hopefully Labrador. You can learn more about my journey at my new website: http://www.100mpg.ca Hopefully I'll be updating my site every day with photos and stories. Already on my list to pack are a few geocoins to distribute, and also some TEAM KFWB GPS cd's and tapes. My car is easy to spot, so if you see it parked somewhere, come and introduce yourself.

I used to hide micros to elicit forum topics chewing me out for doing so. No quantity of illicit pharmaceuticals could ever help such a situation nowadays. Apparently, being ill 'is it'.

Since we are talking about a specific cacher, and therefore, specific caches, be it known that I agreed yesterday to adopt 1 of 6 land-based caches. (Which has happened - Hydee made the changes...) Today (prior to seeing this thread, FWIW), I asked to take the other 5 land-based caches over as well.

Holy crap, I still have one! I guess I should hide it in a cache. Actually, I will do that soon.

There's always 1 or 2 less caches than there should be.

What's a geocoin? Actually, I have a few I'm keeping.

I realize that Bremerton's Cache Machine is the same day, but my money is on the smart car event... we'll be at the needle in Seattle at roughly 1:30 PM on Saturday June 18th... I was going to start a smart car TB. There is a cache at the needle in Seattle methinks? Maybe it should start there?

I hope it's non-hydrogenated margarine...

Hmmm.... isn't there a locationless cache for this?

Hear here. Or there. So long as something positive for once and for all happens... Please e-mail me where I may send my $1.00 per month.

I also vote Nay, based on the volume of posts over a certain time span. If it were thrice as many - perhaps...

Here, view the multitude of crash test results for the smart. In any event, back to geocaching... I'm going to customize a GPS set-up for the car using a laptop and an external antenna that I already have, failing that, I'll use a Magellan on the dash, which is huge and has a lot of places to mount one.

You just described every motorcycle ever made - and they can handily outperform economy cars. This isn't such a crazy comparison as both seat 2 people and offer very little in terms of protection during a crash. The smart has 4 standard airbags and is quite safe. Even if your GPS gets crushed by your knee. People say to me 'I wouldn't want to get hit by a semi in that car...', and I say 'I work for a trucking company with 200 trucks on the road. Pick a car you would like to be hit in, and I'm sure I can arrange a demonstration...'