+Team Benhamtroll Posted February 12, 2004 Share Posted February 12, 2004 Heya. You may have seen my post elsewhere, but I'd interested in getting started with geocaching, but I'm having a hard time convincing my wife to let me shell out the money for a decent GPS for a hobby that may fizzle out. So, I was hoping to maybe hook up with some local cachers and try it out. Maybe get my wife interested as well so that she'll let me buy my GPS. Quote Link to comment
+DenaliNW Posted February 12, 2004 Share Posted February 12, 2004 You might try posting on the Portland Geocaching Forums, and see if you don't get a response. There are quite a few rabid cachers in the Beaverton/Hillsboro area which is close to you. There are also a few cachers in the Salem area. Soup comes to mind. Quote Link to comment
+Zzzoey & illDRIVEuNav Posted February 12, 2004 Share Posted February 12, 2004 PedalFast is from Newberg, along with DocWMB and OurWebStop, I think... We go through there on our way to the ancestral homelands every once in awhile and we have a few caches out toward Sheridan. When we started caching we used a loaner receiver, and then we talked Zzzoey's employer into buying one that we could basically call our own... There's always a way to cache, you just have to be resourceful. And as for geocaching fizzling out... Very, very doubtful Quote Link to comment
+Team Benhamtroll Posted February 12, 2004 Author Share Posted February 12, 2004 Heh. I think she's more concerned with my interest fizzling out . . . Quote Link to comment
+Byron & Anne Posted February 13, 2004 Share Posted February 13, 2004 Heh. I think she's more concerned with my interest fizzling out . . . From what I've seen that probably is not a concern. More likely you'll get hooked. All vacations will need to take geocaching into consideration. You won't be able to pass up an event cache. The list goes on and on. Happy Caching Quote Link to comment
+Team Benhamtroll Posted February 13, 2004 Author Share Posted February 13, 2004 That's what I was thinking. I was telling her last night that it would be a great activity for the three of us (me, the wife, and our 5-year-old daughter) to get out together and get some excercise and see the area. I'll keep working on her. Quote Link to comment
+DenaliNW Posted February 13, 2004 Share Posted February 13, 2004 Is that a velvet Selleck? Quote Link to comment
+KAYAK PHOTOG Posted February 13, 2004 Share Posted February 13, 2004 Take your 5 yer old daughter on a hunt. She will love the stuff found in a cache and she will convince your wife to continue and spring for the GPS. What an easy solve. good luck KAYAK PHOTOG Quote Link to comment
+Team Benhamtroll Posted February 13, 2004 Author Share Posted February 13, 2004 Yeah, I was thinking my daughter would be a good negotiation tool. DenaliNW, it's oil on canvas. Found it in a second hand store down in Dallas. You can't NOT buy something like that . . . Quote Link to comment
+Lazyboy & Mitey Mite Posted February 13, 2004 Share Posted February 13, 2004 it's oil on canvas. Found it in a second hand store down in Dallas. You can't NOT buy something like that . . . Nor should you Quote Link to comment
+Team Benhamtroll Posted February 13, 2004 Author Share Posted February 13, 2004 Heh. Exactly. I've been wanting to get a t-shirt made with the picture on it, but it's been difficult. He's hanging in my dining room right now. Hopefully I'll be out caching in the next few weeks, since my wife has given tacit approval for a GPS. I need to start bugging my friend about his. Maybe he'll let me pay in installments, since I have two weeks to move my entire household, which generally equates to spending a bunch more money than if you have a month or more . . . grrr. . . . Quote Link to comment
+Lazyboy & Mitey Mite Posted February 13, 2004 Share Posted February 13, 2004 Heh. Exactly. I've been wanting to get a t-shirt made with the picture on it, but it's been difficult. He's hanging in my dining room right now.. . I must admit to being a Magnum PI junkie for years. What a life. Quote Link to comment
+pdxmarathonman Posted February 13, 2004 Share Posted February 13, 2004 since I have two weeks to move my entire household If you had been geocaching long enough you could've probably posted an event cache and had the stuff moved in a day Quote Link to comment
+Team Benhamtroll Posted February 13, 2004 Author Share Posted February 13, 2004 Maybe I should make it a multi-cache, with the first coordinate at my place, and then tell folks the actual cache is at the place I'm moving to. And as long as you're heading that way, why don't you take one of these boxes . . . Quote Link to comment
soup Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 If you had been geocaching long enough you could've probably posted an event cache and had the stuff moved in a day PDXMM... that is a FANTASTIC IDEA!!! I am moving my stuff out of storage in Hillsboro to lands unknown (Salem). It will be on Feb28 (day after my birthday). I offer pizza and beer to those who help with the Hillsboro side. *PLUS*: you might spy something in my junkpile that just might be part of an future event (shameless plug?). And, benhamtroll, as for loosing intest.. I think you might be surprized how addicting this little activity is... Gimme a email sometime, I will cache with ya. Quote Link to comment
+Homerz Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 You can always try caching without a GPSr too. I've seen folks attempt to do it using only mapping programs and the hint. Some have some bit of luck with it as well. If you wanted to get your wife interested, drag her along on someone's cache (don't tell her you've previously emailed the cache owner and gotten explicit instrcutions on how to find it) and let her make the find! Besides getting you all out of the house and exercising, you can use Geocaching in general to teach your child about maps, geography, satellites, etc. We've got a 6 year old who is tracking one of her travel bugs. It was released in central Oregon, has been to South Africa and is now on it's way to New Zealand. A cheap world map and some stickers and what better way to teach her what a small world this is? How much more convincing would your wife need? Also try www.gotcache.com for the home of Emerald Valley Geocachers (cachers along the I-5 corridor). Quote Link to comment
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