The San Diego Thread

2.1k · May 13, 2005

Hey folks.....check this out:

Open Casting Call for Treasure Hunters

I'd totally be down there with...I dunno.....Tom and Duncan....

But I'm going to be in Honduras for the next week. Bummer...I think geocachers would be perfect for this! If anyone goes and they say "they know this guy who'd be perfect but is in Honduras on a treasure hunt..." I'd be eternally grateful

--TT--

Well since you asked, I'm going to show up and Duncan is going to try to get off work early, and we're going to bring some sort of likeness of Jeff. How could ANYONE pass up a chance to cache for real cash? Where's the $kimmer on this one? This is where it's at, baby!!

May 13, 2005

Sounds interesting

I will be there, if only for the show.

May 13, 2005

Reality TV... our times' Bread and Circuses (thanks to Faux TV and those that chose to follow their lead.)

Parsa

Edited May 13, 2005 by Parsa

May 13, 2005

Hey folks.....check this out:

Open Casting Call for Treasure Hunters

I'd totally be down there with...I dunno.....Tom and Duncan....

But I'm going to be in Honduras for the next week. Bummer...I think geocachers would be perfect for this! If anyone goes and they say "they know this guy who'd be perfect but is in Honduras on a treasure hunt..." I'd be eternally grateful

--TT--

I saw this 2 or 3 weeks ago, and if I were in a position in my life to take 4-8 weeks off from work I'd be all over this. C'mon.... puzzle solving, world travel, and treasure hunting? I'd be so there. Good luck to anyone who has the ability to go for it.

14.3k · May 13, 2005

Hey folks.....check this out:

Open Casting Call for Treasure Hunters

I'd totally be down there with...I dunno.....Tom and Duncan....

But I'm going to be in Honduras for the next week. Bummer...I think geocachers would be perfect for this! If anyone goes and they say "they know this guy who'd be perfect but is in Honduras on a treasure hunt..." I'd be eternally grateful

--TT--

I saw that last night while watching "The Apprentice"! Geocachers would dominate! The FTF and puzzle gurus would be the best candidates among the geocachers!

May 13, 2005

Hey folks.....check this out:

Open Casting Call for Treasure Hunters

I'd totally be down there with...I dunno.....Tom and Duncan....

But I'm going to be in Honduras for the next week. Bummer...I think geocachers would be perfect for this! If anyone goes and they say "they know this guy who'd be perfect but is in Honduras on a treasure hunt..." I'd be eternally grateful

--TT--

Hmmmm.... 4-8 weeks away from work.... kids with the grandparents(!).... solving puzzles.... finding treasure..... kids at the grandparents(!!).... world travel.... cameramen following you around(?) Could be worthwhile, but we can't even solve one of TT's puzzles, guess we'd have to give that a lot a bit of thought.

May 13, 2005

I could be there on Sunday, the PB B&G is just down the road from my place. What time is anyone else going to be there?

11.3k · May 13, 2005

Sounds interesting

I will be there, if only for the show.

Me too!

I might show up just to watch. Since I can't do puzzles, I wouldn't be a good candidate for anyone's team . . . :unsure:

May 13, 2005

Reality TV... our times' Bread and Circuses (thanks to Faux TV and those that chose to follow their lead.)

Parsa

I guess Star Trek's Romans are just as "over the top" as Monty Python's version. Somehow I doubt theirs had a lisp.

:unsure: Had 'em confused for a moment there.

Like the web site too Parsa. Good job.

May 13, 2005

Just might have to show up too, gonna be down there dropping my father off at the airport anyway. Hmmm.... but then someone might find the jeep TB and get the coords for "Sometimes here... Sometimes there...." and "TT annoyance cache #2". Would be interesting to see the kind of folks that would voluntarilly have cameramen follow them around and capture their silly mistakes on tape to be broadcast on TV.

May 13, 2005

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

"Stwike him, Centuwion, vewy woughly!"

"Oh, and, uh, throw him to the floor, sir?"

"Oh yes....thwow him to the floor, please."

Edited May 13, 2005 by TucsonThompsen

May 13, 2005

Welease Wodewick!

14.3k · May 13, 2005

Blessed are the cheese makers!

May 13, 2005

Blessed are the cheese makers!

And I thought to myself, 'a little fermented curd will do the trick'. So I curtailed my Walpoling activites, sallied forth, and infiltrated your place of purveyance to negotiate the vending of some cheesy comestibles.

May 13, 2005

Congratulations, Kawikaturn, on half a ton of caches!!!

May 13, 2005

Congratulations, Kawikaturn, on half a ton of caches!!!

He hasn't logged it yet!

May 13, 2005

THANKS!! :unsure: :blink: That was a fun cache with a T-Shirt for the memories. The candies were good too. Not many caches have that FINE Hersheys chocolate for the reward!

Go for it Harmon!!

5.5k · May 13, 2005

THANKS!! That was a fun cache with a T-Shirt for the memories. The candies were good too. Not many caches have that FINE Hersheys chocolate for the reward!

Go for it Harmon!!

Kawikaturn,

Wow! I am ever-so grateful for the great photo. Got to give this one some serious thought.

Harmon

2.2k · May 13, 2005

THANKS!! That was a fun cache with a T-Shirt for the memories. The candies were good too. Not many caches have that FINE Hersheys chocolate for the reward!

Go for it Harmon!!

So you just couldn't wait. Congrats Dave, you passed me up, but I am right behind you hanging at 999! RM

May 13, 2005

I know there's a puzzle cache in here somewhere...

5.5k · May 13, 2005

I know there's a puzzle cache in here somewhere...

Got to be called "Ruby Blues."

May 13, 2005

Funny....cause I have that same doctored picture on my cubicle wall.

And my co-workers call me tasteless. At least the once with no sense of humour. I particularly like the logo of the band called "The Dead Kennedys" in the background.

Once and for all proof that Osawld was set up. He was jammin with Jack Ruby the whole time.

</conspiracytheory>

14.3k · May 13, 2005

Congratulations, Kawikaturn, on half a ton of caches!!!

Congrats Kawika on 1 !!!!

-Paka

3.3k · May 14, 2005

THANKS!! That was a fun cache with a T-Shirt for the memories. The candies were good too. Not many caches have that FINE Hersheys chocolate for the reward!

Go for it Harmon!!

So you just couldn't wait. Congrats Dave, you passed me up, but I am right behind you hanging at 999! RM

Rocketman: You mean you don't want to stay at 999 as Kevin and Susan have permanently done? They continue to cache and log finds, except their finds are logged in as notes, not finds. They have several FTF's this way; must drive the locals nuts. I once sent them an email [before I realized what they were doing] asking them if they meant to log a note as a find; they promptly ignored me. They don't realize they have found over 1K finds if they continue to sign both the cache and webpage logs.

If it's not about the numbers, why log their finds at all, especially FTF's, as notes, except only to taunt their fellow cachers? I just don't get it ; am I putting too much thought into this? Good grief.

Incidentally, "official" find #999 was Snakes and Ladders .

Back to sanity: Congrats Kawikaturn on 1K; how 'bout a brewski .

Edited May 14, 2005 by Chuy

5.5k · May 14, 2005

Go for it Harmon!!

Hey! anybody else want to be in this photo?

Edited May 14, 2005 by SD Rowdies

5.5k · May 14, 2005

Go for it Harmon!!

May 14, 2005

Anybody up for a little Wizards Chess? I am gonna give it a try Sunday Morning starting about 0800. I think I have one teammate lined up so far. If you are interested let me know and we can exchange contact info.

2.1k · May 14, 2005

Congratulations, Kawikaturn, on half a ton of caches!!!

Congrats Kawika on 1 !!!!

-Paka

Ditto, Dave! How many of those were with Laa Laa and Tinky Winky? I bet almost all of them!

14.3k · May 14, 2005

Go for it Harmon!!

Nice socks Dave!

Oh No! Is that Harmon flying a sock-seeking spy plane I hear in the distance?

May 14, 2005

Reality TV... our times' Bread and Circuses (thanks to Faux TV and those that chose to follow their lead.)

Parsa

400 Quatloos on the newcomer!

2.2k · May 14, 2005

THANKS!! That was a fun cache with a T-Shirt for the memories. The candies were good too. Not many caches have that FINE Hersheys chocolate for the reward!

Go for it Harmon!!

So you just couldn't wait. Congrats Dave, you passed me up, but I am right behind you hanging at 999! RM

Rocketman: You mean you don't want to stay at 999 as Kevin and Susan have permanently done? They continue to cache and log finds, except their finds are logged in as notes, not finds. They have several FTF's this way; must drive the locals nuts. I once sent them an email [before I realized what they were doing] asking them if they meant to log a note as a find; they promptly ignored me. They don't realize they have found over 1K finds if they continue to sign both the cache and webpage logs.

If it's not about the numbers, why log their finds at all, especially FTF's, as notes, except only to taunt their fellow cachers? I just don't get it ; am I putting too much thought into this? Good grief.

Incidentally, "official" find #999 was Snakes and Ladders .

Back to sanity: Congrats Kawikaturn on 1K; how 'bout a brewski .

That's funny that you mention Kevin and Susan doing S&L as their 1000th and then not logging any more finds. I did S&L with fkrexcal and Trailgators and we ran into Kevin and Susan on the second day of our hunt. They were totally stuck on what to do next, but they had noticed something that helped us to move along from where we were stuck. We did part of the hunt together, but got stuck again near the end. They told us about their plan to stop logging caches at 999. I think they told us that they were going to start a second user account and start over again. I guess they just decided to stop logging their finds as finds.

I am definitely going to log the big 1000 soon, maybe tomorrow. I just have to decide which it will be.

Edit: Right now it's a toss up between one of TT's hardest caches that Trailgators and I have solved and a mountain hike.

Dave

Edited May 14, 2005 by Rocket Man

14.3k · May 14, 2005

That's funny that you mention Kevin and Susan doing S&L as their 1000th and then not logging any more finds. I did S&L with fkrexcal and Trailgators and we ran into Kevin and Susan on the second day of our hunt. They were totally stuck on what to do next, but they had noticed something that helped us to move along from where we were stuck. We did part of the hunt together, but got stuck again near the end. They told us about their plan to stop logging caches at 999. I think they told us that they were going to start a second user account and start over again. I guess they just decided to stop logging their finds as finds.

I am definitely going to log the big 1000 soon, maybe tomorrow. I just have to decide which it will be.

Dave

I'll never forget wandering around the mall with them. We all must have looked like a bunch of geeks!

May 14, 2005

I'll never forget wandering around the mall with them. We all must have looked like a bunch of geeks!

Yeah, I heard there was a cache inside the mall.

nuff said

May 14, 2005

So, with Jeff off in Honduras for a while, does anyone else have a chance of solving this one and making it a double annoyance for TT, missing the FTF?

I'm getting nothing so far, and it's a long way to go before I have a clue...

May 14, 2005

My significant other is good at puzzles but he doesnt cache with us. Wonder if I could get him to help figure out the TT puzzle? Doesnt hurt to ask right?

May 14, 2005

So, with Jeff off in Honduras for a while, does anyone else have a chance of solving this one and making it a double annoyance for TT, missing the FTF?

I'm getting nothing so far, and it's a long way to go before I have a clue...

In just a few seconds of looking at this one, I got a reasonably good Longitude, but for the life of me, I cannot get anything that looks anywhere close to a Latitude.

The numbers in the Hint, mean nothing to me - I have tried all my math tricks on them to no avail.

May 15, 2005

Go for it Harmon!!

Congrats to all three of you!!

However, in light of the sock violation, you must subtract one cache.

Way to go Dave!

The Splashes

5.5k · May 15, 2005

However, in light of the sock violation, you must subtract one cache. Way to go Dave!

The Splashes

Say, come to think of it, those big KissMobile Kisses look like Bon-bons.

Harmon

2.1k · May 15, 2005

Who's gunna be crazy enough to grab FTF honors on my newest cache, The Flume? Maybe Rocket Man and Trailgators will go after this one for the Kilo???

Edited May 15, 2005 by FlagMan

2.1k · May 15, 2005

Congratulations, Rocket Man, on the KILO!!! I happen to have inside information on his FTF bagging of my new cache, The Flume. He's out there right now with TrailGators and kawikaturn. They "cheated" but only at my insistence. Way to go, guys!

Edited May 15, 2005 by FlagMan

5.5k · May 15, 2005

Go for it Harmon!!

Somebody stop me, I'm hypnotized by the sock!

DustMobile locationless cache. No, wait, definitely located in Iraq.

Edited May 15, 2005 by SD Rowdies

May 15, 2005

We went for a nice hike in Mission Trails yesterday. And you all know what that means!

What the Dino Saw!

(submitted 11am today, approved by 12 noon)

2.2k · May 15, 2005

Congratulations, Rocket Man, on the KILO!!! I happen to have inside information on his FTF bagging of my new cache, The Flume. He's out there right now with TrailGators and kawikaturn. They "cheated" but only at my insistence. Way to go, guys!

5.5k · May 15, 2005

Nice work Rocket Man.

Congratulations,

The Sandy Creek Cowboys

May 16, 2005

Nice work Rocket Man.

Congratulations,

The Sandy Creek Cowboys

Way to go Dave!!!!

Congrats on the Kilo.

We saw that cache come up and knew where it had to be, of coarse, the exact coordinates are another thing....

We hope you find your next 1000 in this county!!

The Splashes

14.3k · May 16, 2005

Hey Harmon look what I can do now! :huh:

2.1k · May 16, 2005

Hey folks.....check this out:

Open Casting Call for Treasure Hunters

I'd totally be down there with...I dunno.....Tom and Duncan....

But I'm going to be in Honduras for the next week. Bummer...I think geocachers would be perfect for this! If anyone goes and they say "they know this guy who'd be perfect but is in Honduras on a treasure hunt..." I'd be eternally grateful

--TT--

WE'RE IN!! :huh:

So, here's the story. John&Jess go down early and get the scoop. They call me down there at about noonish or so and we all check in. We fill out simple apps with just contact information and a simple release, and then sit around and wait, and speculate, and come up with a team name SHOW ME THE CACHE and wait some more, etc. We were almost the last team to get interviewed. Then we get called up. After some pleasantries, the interview went something like this:

NBC: So, how do you all know one another?

John: Jess and I are long-time boyfriend-girlfriend, and Tom we know through a common hobby.

NBC: Oh, what hobby is that?

John: (looking back and forth), Uhhhhh, geeeeee-ooooooooo-caaaaashing???

NBC: Oh, I've heard of that -- something to do with a GPS, right?

Tom: Yeah, sort of a high-tech scavenger hunt. People go hide things and post the coordinates on the web and then the race is on to go find it. There are caches in ammo cans that you have to climb a mountain for, then there are urban micros that are well cammoflaged, then there are puzzle caches where you have to solve the puzzle first to get the coordinates.

NBC: Oh, that sounds a lot like this show. Are you guys any good?

Tom (winking with all fingers and toes crossed): We're the BEST! I've got over 1600 finds and John&Jess are master puzzle solvers. We have one more team member with over 2000 finds who is the master at puzzle caches -- he would have been first in line here today except that he is in Honduras.

NBC: Well, we definitely want you guys to interview again up in LA. Can you make it?

J&J&T: Uhhhhh, (hearts miss a beat or two), yeah!!

NBC: How long will your friend be in Honduras?

J&J&T: About a week, I think.

NBC: OK, when he gets back, call me and we'll have you guys come up to LA to go through the next interview. Here's my card. Thanks for coming down.....

Took about a minute or two........... WoooooHooooo!

I celebrated by going out for FTF on TrailGators new El Capitan cache, Flume Bay'ed. Seems that I can't do a cache related to El Cap without having to go back the second day for a repeat performance! :lol:

Edited May 16, 2005 by FlagMan

May 16, 2005

So very cool Tom!

We may have to have a TV airing event cache for all of you.

14.3k · May 16, 2005

Wow Tom! How cool is that!!!

We'll all be pulling for you guys! :huh:

May 16, 2005

Well, we went down there also, although we didn't get out there till about 4ish. The gal asked us how we found out about it, and why we would be good candidates for the show. We explained that our hobby was geocaching, and that it was all about solving puzzles and hunting for hidden things. Unfortunately we were only 2 and not 3, but we knew of a 3rd who was a master puzzle solver. The gal was very interested and mentioned that we were the type they were searching for. Interesting process, interesting interview. At worst we get to say that we made the attempt. At best we take a tour courtesy of NBC. At least we know we had a few heavy hitting competitors. Good luck to y'all Tom, John and Jess. Sorry we missed ya there, we were busy caching (imagine that).

Todd and Marie

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