[Cheesehead Dave]

Is the nomination page supposed to be showing those with a single nomination as well?

[Cheesehead Dave]

Never mind!

[Cheesehead Dave]

While it’s waterproof, many baby bottles will allow the passage of air, and therefore water vapor. If your bottle has it, I’d also include that little plastic disc that will seal off the mouth of the bottle as well, or use a dab of glue to completely seal up the hole in the nipple.

[Cheesehead Dave]

#11 came true at the Mother of All Breakfasts by a longshot.

[Cheesehead Dave]

With all the caching I do in Illinois, I encounter Bears all the time.

Oh… not those kinds of Bears?

[Cheesehead Dave]

If you’re going south into Illinois, there’s no reason to stop at that tool anyway. Get off on US-41 for five miles or so, cut right on IL-21, then take Grand avenue back to I-94. It might add five minutes to your trip, but at least it’s free.

[Cheesehead Dave]

On a couple occasions, I have retrieved bugs that I know that I’m going to hand off to someone or place in a specific cache to help it meet it’s goals. Sometimes I’ll know that it might be a few weeks or a month before that handoff is going to take place, so I have a little fun with the bug in the meantime and bring it cache hunting.

For example, check out the Cache Viking. This was a missing bug that belonged to someone I know that suddenly reappeared in a cache in Illinois near where I work. I rescued it and planned to pass it on to another cacher iin Illinois who was going to move it on its way. Scroll down to August and see the Bugs adventures, which included a trip to the 2004 WGA picnic.

A different type of example is the Caching Karma Stick. This is tracked as a TB, but is never actually stored in a cache, but is passed from cacher to cacher. I did a five-stage cache series in a group of five. Someone brought the hiking stick and we each took a turn carrying it from cache to cache. When we got home, we coordinated logging the TB by grabbing it from the cache we received the stick at, then dropping it in the cache we passed it to the next cacher at.

I’m sure different people have other reasons as well. Some people have “personal travel bugs” that they wear on a chain when the cache and drop and grab for each cache they find in order to use GC.com to help track the number of miles they have traveled going from cache to cache.

And of course, there’s also the infamous event bugs where everyone writes down the bug’s tag number and grabs the bug from the event cache and drops it back in again.

There’s no real “official” guidelines for what you can do with a travel bug tag, so I really don’t get all that concerned with what other people do with them, just so long as my bugs keep moving…

[Cheesehead Dave]

Congrats to you both! Here’s to your next thousand!

[Cheesehead Dave]

I participate on the Chicagoland Geocaching Association forums and have participated in their events. I don’t see why they wouldn’t likewise be welcome here on our forums. I can understand, however, if official membership is limited to Wisconsin residents only.

[Cheesehead Dave]

I use phpwpoison

Go to my website and click on the question mark at the bottom of the page. It takes you to email.php which, after a deliberate delay to slow down the mail harvesters, generates a fairly realistic looking page with fake emails to harvest.

Thanks for the .htaccess file. That’s one thing I didn’t have.

[Cheesehead Dave]

Congrats! I should hit that in, oh, about eight years…

[Cheesehead Dave]

If you’re concerned about stats, “Attended” still adds one to your find count, so you could theoretically log multiple “attended”s for each temporary cache found.

[Cheesehead Dave]

I was in DC a couple of summers ago and it was (obviously) all virtuals only. They were all nicely spaced out so as we walked around the mall and the different monuments, there was always a virtual to be found.

I doubt there’s too many ammo boxes hiding around there right now…

[Cheesehead Dave]

I like #5. Something really clever about the name or the description that makes absolutely no sense until after you find the cache. I spent this afternoon doing a nice multi called “The Boss’s First Cache”. The name made a lot more sense after I realized that I was was walking around in Asbury Park…

[Cheesehead Dave]

To add to the list, apparently the Welcome Center in Kenosha (and starting point for the “?” Cache) has free WiFi access available.

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