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Once saw a ceramic travel bug. Well, make that the shattered bits of a ceramic TB.

Me too.. it was an Elk that I moved along I believe and I went through the painstaking work of re-gluing it all back together and putting it in something a bit more protective and was disheartened when a few logs later it was shattered again. Putting out breakable travel bugs is not cool. It’s definitely one way to have them end up in a garbage and not traveling…

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Girlie lip gloss that smells like strawberries, raspberries, etc.

Perfume. Body Spray. Deodorant.

Kleenex.

Diapers.

Hand Sanitizer. – Freezes and cracks etc. Like bubbles do.

And on a different note… things we don’t really like to see in caches:
Rocks, Pine Cones, leaves, sticks, bottle caps, losing lottery tickets, expired coupons, Broken pieces of things of no use, used batteries…

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Congrats!!

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Congrats!!

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Happy Anniversary!!

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Happy Birthday!!!

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Yeah yeah, I wrecked my car… and another lady’s brand new SUV.

Haven’t really had anything else other than the usual scrapes and bumps.

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Yeah.. when I bought my last 2 ammo cans at Fleet Farm she asked if I had found everything. My “order” consisted of:
– 2 slightly used ammo cans
– 3 boxes of little debbie snack cakes (they were on sale) and I figured they would come in handy at the campout

I said, no I was really looking for something else but since I was in the store I figured I would pick up a couple necessities.. She looked at me strange. I never offered what I was actually looking for and she never asked. Why do they bother asking if you found everything if they don’t plan on offering help if you say no?

At walmart when I clean out the matchstick containers and small notebooks, I go through the self checkout to limit the strange looks… Of course there was the time that I returned 3 times for craft googly eyes (some of you may appreciate this if you did one of my recent caches at the campout)

Oh and I have to add, Gorilla Glue to the list of items I would not own were it not for geocaching. And 3 GPS units..

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a truck!

Ditto.. Not for the same reasons. Geocaching killed my prior car.

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I tried a route from my house to West bend and built a PQ on it and it only showed me 93 caches and I told it to max out at 500 and it only went south about 25 miles and did not plot caches anywhere around West Bend. I guess I will have to play some more to see what I did wrong…

A commercial told me there were more than 500 around west bend 😉

And I find it hard to believe that there are no “unfound” caches of mine in the Fondulac & West Bend areas… I must have messed something up.

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Sure enough, on the groundspeak forums there is a 5/20 site release notes posting. They’ve updated things again. Here is the text of the post for those who don’t want to click one more time to read it:

Greetings cachers. For this month’s code release we offer a major upgrade to the Caches Along a Route feature.

In the new version of CAaR, you are presented with a tool for creating routes online using Google Maps. Create a route between 2 points up to 500 miles in length. Play around with detours from the route and you’ll be surprised that a “route” can even be shaped as a square! Basic members can experiment with route creation, too.

In addition to many infrastructure tweaks, these bugs were fixed:

Release Notes – Geocaching.com: May 2009

10274: Bulgarian Cache Note
Added Bulgarian cache note

9607: Banned premium member still receives bookmark list notifications
Banned member no longer receives bookmark notifications

10209: Caches that have not been reviewed show on hotel page
Unpublished caches no longer appear on hotel pages

10023: Change “archive” to “delete” in warning dialogue when deleting PQ
Changed “archive” to “delete” when deleting a PQ

9570: Cannot edit cache types for ‘cache along a route’ pocket query
Fixed issue with CAAR PQs not allowing edit of cache type

Please let us know of any issues you find with this update. As usual, known bugs should be discussed in another thread. Thanks!

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The trend seems to be that they perform planned system outages in the middle of the week to limit the impact on their users. Most of their users need the site UP on the weekend (when most are looking to log their finds or pick out a cache to go look for..)

If it goes down on the weekend it’s probably not planned 😯

Means they are probably rolling out changes or moving something today.

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and the reason it’s duplicated is probably that many people ignore the off-topic board altogether… (I don’t blame them, nothing good ever comes from that thread…)

and it would seem this topic is definitely not Off-topic..

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And they’re being sent to me via email to…

Here was my email response on the subject:

Sounds like news coverage hysteria to me. My guess is this story was a big ploy to get private industry to start funding new replacement satellites. You don’t think that all these GPS manufacturers will just sit and let their businesses go out do you? And I highly doubt the military will sit and do nothing either. Perhaps our economic recovery bill should have included a handful of new satellites to be built and launched… my guess is that this will spark even more accurate technology to be launched into space which will mean that alex’s coords will get better on his new caches 😉

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Matt and I are looking forward to completing all the new one’s at High Cliff. After last night’s hunt for “Rabbit Hole” and “Winnebago War”, my son cannot wait to get back to the park and find more. They just keep getting better Alex..

Now to start grabbing those sticks!

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