Digital_Cowboy

After reading your log if it had been me, I would have insisted on getting the officer's name and badge number and filing a complaint with his superiors. You told him why you were there and what you were doing. Had you known about the fire happening before you'd gone out in the area? Regardless of whether or not you knew about the fire he had no right/call to treat you the way that he did. Not to mention how do we know that even though he now knows what geocaching is that he isn't going to treat the next cacher harsher? It also kind of reminds me of something that recently happened to me. I was riding home from a local seafood restaurant.when I think that I stumbled on a police stakeout. He used his hand to signal me to turn off my headlights, as I was doing a pretty good job of lighting him up. I guess IF he'd wanted to be a hardass about it he could have busted me, although I don't know on what charge. Digital_Cowboy

You don't. Guilty until proven innocent. Better to just grind it under foot in the dirt than to turn it in innocently and then having to hire a lawyer to explain your way out. Sadly, that is pretty much what I had thought. Myself and everyone I was stationed with over in S. Korea had wished that a SSG who had found one in the transit's barracks had done that. Instead he turned it in and we all got "the plastic cup detail" for our troubles. Digital_Cowboy

Just found one like that with a friend over in Tampa, only it was a darker shade of green. Digital_Cowboy

I wouldn't go that dar, a i 'm sure most of us haven't been stopped. Digital_Cowboy

I wouldn't go that dar, a i 'm sure most of us haven't been stopped. Digital_Cowboy

I wouldn't go that dar, a i 'm sure most of us haven't been stopped. Digital_Cowboy

I wouldn't go that dar, a i 'm sure most of us haven't been stopped. Digital_Cowboy

Earlier this year when I did an upgrade to my eTrex it installed the icons for a geocache and a found geocache. What I'd like to see is an icon for benchmarks. Digital_Cowboy

Earlier this year when I did an upgrade to my eTrex it installed the icons for a geocache and a found geocache. What I'd like to see is an icon for benchmarks. Digital_Cowboy

Hmm, correct me IF I'm mistaken but don't ALL cache log pages warn that there may be spoilers in the various log entries? And for others to read them at their discretion? So then given that why should cache owner delete any log entry that contains a spoiler? I would say that the cache owner who puts a "log this find this way or it'll be deleted" has control issues, and should lighten up. Now then IF it's one of the few remaining virtual caches such as Down by the Banyan Tree . Where one has to send an E-Mail to the cache owner with a certain word or date to prove that they were really there, then that is a whole other "story." But as I said anything else just seems to indicate that the cache owner is trying to be too controlling. But that's just me. Digital_Cowboy

TFTC = Thanks For The Cache TFTH = Thanks For The Hunt TNLN = Took Nothing Left Nothing SL = Signed Log CITO = Cache In Trash Out Digital_Cowboy

Or even a magnetic key holder as a micro cache. Digital_Cowboy

Clearly hard to beat, but we recently found a pair of dirty surgical gloves (with holes in them) and half a marijuana joint Hey, don't "bogart" that j. Seriously I hope ya disposed of it properly. Uh, IF one were to find another one or something of a similar nature how would they turn it in to the cops without getting busted themselves??? Digital_Cowboy

CC, Where the extremest environmentalists are concerned I can't help but remember a good old saying: Everything in moderation. Digital_Cowboy

I'm always impressed by the intelligent use of terrain by the local deers and cows. I sometimes follow their paths when there are no established human trails available. I wouldn't underestimate the brain capacities of "other creatures." I agree that we (as humans) don't really have good reasons to go off trail, because we tend to get lost... so much for OUR brain capacities. In an earlier post in this thread someone mentioned something about greenhouse gases. I wonder how many of the so called environmentalists know or realize that cows are one of if not the "dirtiest" animals alive? In that they annually produce more greenhouse gases then most automobiles. I can't help but wonder what the next dirtiest animal is. Digital_Cowboy

You raise some very good points. Sadly in a lot of areas we are getting nickeled and dimed to death/poverty. And one has to ask when/where does it all end??? And as it's also been pointed out don't these "anti" this or that people realize the good that the majority of a given group actually do? Yes, sadly as has been pointed out there are some bad apples, but (again sadly) one will find bad apples in any group. Digital_Cowboy

So far the only thing I've found is $0.15 in a micro-cache. Digital_Cowboy

Everywhere you go in Tokyo. Also quite a lot in Berlin although, in typical German style, instead of temporary paint they often use a different pavement surface to identify the bike lanes - more permanent . Cool, I only flew through Japan on my way home from S. Korea a "few" years ago. Didn't have enough time to do any sightseeing. Herman

True enough depending on the time of day. Later in the day/evening when it's getting darker it can prove to be dangerous, esp. with inattentive drivers out on the road who are too busy yaking on their cell phones and NOT paying attention to their driving. Digital_Cowboy

Sounds like you had a good outing. Where were the sidewalks with painted bike lanes? Some of the streets here in St. Pete have 'em, but sadly not enough in my opinion. I think that it was passed that when streets are widened that they have to included a bike path, but I'm not sure on that. Digital_Cowboy

Nero, Thanks it's nice to hear that I'm not the only one who caches using either or both a bike or bus for transportation to a cache site. On the cache that I'd mentioned, had I gone out earlier in the day I might not have been put off by the distance, but it was getting close to dusk and I didn't want to be out on the rode on a bike too much after the sun had set. As even with a well lit bike we're still pretty invisible to most "cagers" err motorists. Case in point I was going to a neighborhood pub/eatery "burning" not one, or two 12 volt headlights but three. Two mounted to my handlebar and one mounted to my helmet. And this "fool" starts to pull out with ME in the road in the middle of the driveway. . . Had I "hit" my breaks the car would have "T-boned" me, fortunately I don't give into panic. There was a gal there with her boyfriend/husband/whatever and I heard her comment (and I think she was a little surprised) that even with all my lights the fool driving the car almost hit me. Sadly I don't think that she really knows just how close that bloody fool came to hitting me. As I would have been able to put my hand on their cars "bonnet." Or had I wanted to kick their grill I would not have been able to do so because I would not have been able to move my foot in anyway other then pedaling my bike forward. Digital_Cowboy

StarBrand, Thanks for the list, although I think that ya meant duct tape and not duck tape. ;-) Digital_Cowboy

I was wondering approximately how many geocachers out there who don't drive and rely on either public transportation and/or a bicycle for their transportation? I ask because not too long ago I'd gone out on a multi-part cache, and when I got to the third part of the "local" sites and "found" the coords for the prize it was around four or five miles away. In the description of the cache the hider said "now you have to get in your car and go for a little drive." I'm sorry, but when one doesn't drive and relies on either (or both) a bicycle and public transportation four or five miles is hardly a "little drive." Especially when stops to consider that public transportation isn't likely to be the most "direct" route to the end of the hunt. Digital_Cowboy

I'm sure that it varies from person-to-person, but what makes up a cache repair kit? Digital_Cowboy

I'd like to apologize for all of the repeated posts. I was using my PPC and even though more then 15 seconds had passed it kept telling me that I was trying to post within 15 seconds of my last post. Digital_Cowboy