NevaP

LOL. Actually my Mom asked him to climb the tree. She also bought me the car. Yes, I'm the one who asked him to climb the tree. He's good at things like this even though he is two years older than I am. Here he's retreiving a cache from the mud and cypress knees under a pier in Florida. [/img] NevaLP, AKA CarleenP's mom

A visit to the graveyard and a return sure adds milage to a bug's record. My bug that recently came back from the dead logged 5855.38 miles E. to the graveyard and the same distance W. coming back, making its total mileage of over 14000 a bit misleading. But the trip doesn't show on its map. The U.S.T-Bug graveyard is listed as located in Kansas but the coordinates are given as a teensy bit north and west of where the Prime Meridian hits the equator, wherever that is.(The big atlas is upstairs and I am not about to trek up and consult it right now) It's sure not in in Kansas. The U.K. and German graveyards appear to have coordinates within their countries. NevaLP

On 9/22 I sadly placed my first T-Bug, EntSoc Bug One, in the Travel Bug Graveyard. It had been placed in a Columbus, Ohio Cache in May and not long after people began to log that it was not there. E-mails established who had seen it last. The cacher who placed it even made a visit to the cache and checked the written logs for me. I buried it to get it off the cache page. Then not quite a month later it was found in another cache in the Columbus area and it has been properly logged and moved closer to its goal. I AM SO HAPPY !! NevaLP

Recently I found a Bug in a cache in Arkansas that had last been logged, in early July, as placed in a cache in Colorado. There was no mention of the bug in the online logs of either cache. So I just logged that I had it, did a note placing it in the Arkansas cache so its travels would show up OK and then grabbed it again. NevaLP, fond of T-bugs

Carleen has said it all very well. This really means so much to us. Cachers are a great bunch of people. NevaLP, Carleen nd Cameron's mom

Being a genuine antique person with short legs, I'm definitely a trail walker until I have to get off it. But then I bushwack with the best of them, only slower. I was with CarleenP on the memorable trek up the mountainside in Colorado recently and although I didn't keep up with her I was doing better than the 13 yr old in the group. I was glad we had walkie talkies with us. We all got there together. NevaLP a.k.a. Carleen's mom

off topic - CarleenP on her Avatar > I did once try out the goth look, but thatwas > 6 years ago and partially by accident. I died > my hair black for my 30th B-day and wore a > Death shirt to classes. Somehow, I think I missed that episode NevaLP, AKA Carleen's mom (who clicked on the idiot link -

> I hope my Mom sees that! I had to do a double > take to be sure it wasn't one of her bugs. That's a beetle, Carleen , not a cockroach! In past years at the Entomological Society meetings there has been a booth selling key chains with colorful beetles encased in resin. I have one on my key chain right now. That's what I was hoping to find to use for T Bugs but last year they weren't there so I had to settle for cockroaches. I expect Nature company stores and various nature item catalogs have them. As I recall the one I have cost about $7-8 a few years ago. NevaLP, bug-lover

I checked Now and Then but it's really more than that. We're retired and traveling a lot and the caching comes in spurts when we are on the road. I've logged 187, in ten states, since I started in late October last year and most of them have been away from my home base. I really should get out one of these days and get all those caches within ten miles of my house. NevaLP

I'll vote for plundering too. My third cache (placed at an interstate rest stop) was plundered a couple weeks after it was hidden - vanished without a trace. I'm still in mourning but preparing a replacement which I will hide a bit further back- maybe in the poison ivy and nettles. NevaLP

Blissfully Rretired and free to cache: From careers as: Entomologist, full time stay home Mom, part-time income tax consultant. Spouse and sometimes cache-hunt helper is a retired entomologist who is still submitting grant proposals to finance Black Fly research.

I just ran Geocache and it got nowhere close. Some of the questions it asked are difficult to answer and I suspect different people will give varying replies. I defined Geocache as "Hidden Container" We should all keep feeding it information and see if it learns anything about us. Thanks, daughter (CarleenP) for another neat time waster! NevaLP

I haven't looked at every post in this long thread but obviously I'm one of the seniors, age 68, and I'm having a great time. I was already a hiker, camper, birder and I love this sport. On a recent week in Florida I ruled out caches of the kind that required hiking seven miles and then rappeling down a sink hole but I found lots that were easily within my abilities. NevaLP (and I'm a whiz at punching in waypoints)

Thanks to all who have replied to my query. I had more or less decided that this was almost a find but not quite becuase I don't *really* know if it is down there or not. I will post a note, with a photo, but I won't log a find. Thanks again for helping a newbie. NevaLP

What constitutes a loggable find for a benchmark that's described as recessed below ground surface? Last week, while attending a conference at the Archbold Biological Research Station in Highland Co., Florida I looked for AF7653 which is described as an aluminum alloy rod driven into the ground to refusal with a logo cap that is recessed 5 inches below the surface and the station recessed 11 inches below the surface. The area where it's supposed to be is a grassy island in a parking lot. Following the measurements given from three of the curbs around the area and from a fire hydrant I found a distinct depression in the ground at which my GPS says I am 0 ft away. Furthermore I could find the three Reference points - nails and disks set in the nearby pavements. I'm reasoanly sure it's down there but I didn't feel I was authorized to dig or probe and see. Is it necessary to probe/dig up/metal detect one of these underground stations to log it as a find? Thanks for any information/opinions anyone may have. NevaLP

quote: Is there something wrong with the posting of Polls? This poll is not tallying any votes I didn't vote because I get all of the above plus a lot of something elses many of which others have already mentioned. My social group is mostly middle aged and above and I get a lot of blank looks and "What's a GPS?" Neva P

I'm a newbie more or less. I first went out with my daughter to see what this is all about. Then I took my husband out to find the cache nearest to home. Next on a trip, while husband was in meetings, I went out on my own and found five caches and a few benchmarks. Then husband and I spent two days together running down eight more caches. Today I was out with daughter and husband to log a find after we finished the golf round. So I quess I will do this whatever way seems to work atthe time. It's always fun. Neva P.

quote: I need "Geocaching for Dummies" or something. I haven't found this to be as simple as it is advertised to be. Any advise? When in danger, when in doubt Run in circles, scream and shout Or better yet, just keep asking until you find someone who is really willing and able to explain and/or demonstrate. I am no help for the etrex because I am still trying to translate the Mallegan manual, which like most of these things seems to assume you already know a lot (like how to get into the menus and use the up and down and sideways buttons) and in general is written for teen-age techno-nerds who won't even read it because they already know how to do all of it by instinct. But perservere, experiment, keep walking the dog and you will eventually figure it out, probably sooner than those of us who have reached medicare age. It can be done. In spite of my senior citizen status, in the past year or so I have figured out how to operate a mobile phone, a DVD player, a high end digital camera and a GPS unit. So hang in there. Neva P., who still thinks all these gadgets operate by magic

I'm CarleenP's mom (she posted in this thread on Septembe 30) After my first Geocaching outing with her I ran right home and ordered my own GPS unit. Soon after that, while traveling, I dragged her dad along for a couple days of cache hunting in Florida and now he's sort of hooked. I came home from the trip with more caches logged than Carleen had but she's ahead again. Neva P.

I've just started Benchmark hunting and I am wondering how protected they are. Anybody know what happens to Benchmarks when the heavy machinery moves in for highway construction? Do they just rip them up? I collected a bunch of Benchmarks to look for along some west Palm Beach county Florida roads that were nice rural places when I was last down there. Last week I found that Jog road, described as a dead end, is now a busy six lane divided highway surrounded by gated communities and golf courses. Beanchmark Coordinates are in the middle of traffic lanes. Hagen road, the next one west, is all torn up and under construction, being "upgraded" to the same condition. Bench mark coordinates are smack in the middle of the mess. Neva in Nebraska

I had fine time Geocaching and Benchmark hunting in Broward and Palm Beach counties last week. Mucho thanks to Geocachers in South Florida for a great bunch of caches. My daughter introduced me to the sport just a couple months ago and I already have logged more than she has. This time I dragged my husband out and he now thinks Geocaching is fun thing for two senior citizens to do. Thanks again to all of you. Neva in Nebraska