[djwini]

making that post got me thinking about caching. and the sun was shining today. so i said the heck with making rum balls for christmas, i’m going caching. loaded the gps with the the cache i was going to. hit the road. turned on the gps. no cache. back home to load it again. drove to the park. the road is closed. had to find an alternate road to the park entrance. parked. found cache. froze fingers signing log and stuffing it full of tb’s. then looked at the sledding hill and got my sled out of the car. went up and down the hill many times before i got tired and had to go home to make those darn rum balls.
i’m back in the game!!!!!!!

[djwini]

nobody was bringing up the cost of going to the court. is it in your hometown, or do you have to drive aways to get there? do you have to take off of work to go?
my daughter got a ticket and went to court. all she got out of it was a payment plan. no reduction in points, no reduction in payment. she had the time to go, but if it were me, i’d just pay it. oh yeah, that’s what i did when i had my geocaching fender bender.

[djwini]

wow, step away for the weekend, and see what happens to a simple post.
easy guys, this was just a post to say that i thought i was the only one deleting. when i first told people i was going to do it, they thought i was nuts. so it felt good to see that there were others that thought the same as i did.
i don’t care one way or the other about how anyone else logs temps.

[djwini]

rats, we were there this past weekend, and they were on my list. but trying to go from milwaukee to lascrosse and back in just two days, and grab caches along the route, just didn’t leave time to do as many as i wanted. and it was cold and got dark way too early.

[djwini]

i bought the fusion program. BUT you have to also have a copy of windows. and not just any copy that you have–it has to be a full install and not OEM. i was trying to use my upgrade install and it won’t work. i’m looking for a copy of windows xp on ebay right now, but so far i haven’t won any bids.

i’ll spend some time looking at the mac caching program in the future and the suggestion for looking at what it exports to is a good one. i’ll try that.

[djwini]

if you’re looking for that on google earth, you might have to download the geocaching plug-in again. mine either expired or died and after i redownloaded it, the pushpins and gc numbers came back.

[djwini]

i had my geocaching accident 2 years ago in ripon. partly it was the gps telling me to go straight and the road signs telling me to turn left with the construction. unfortunately i was in the right lane and the guy behind me to the left was going straight when i decided to follow the road signs and not the gps. i watched this car getting bigger in my side mirror and couldn’t figure out what was going on. pow. $2000 worth of body damage. but i did another cache that day, just to settle down.

[djwini]

this time of year i prefer to hunt in city parks, but we do have the blaze orange jackets with us.
we’re going on a 10 county cache trip over thanksgiving. it’s hard to know ahead of time just what type of land we’ll be on. having something in the cache listings would be helpful. some do.

[djwini]

maybe another question to ask yourself is, do you want the cache to be found? i want people to find my boxes. and because i don’t look for micro caches, i would never hide a micro. i love the reward of signing the log. i very rarely look at the star ratings of a cache, so it’s hit or miss if i am going to come across a very hard cache. and most of the time, if i go and look and can’t find it, they go on my ignore list. as was said earlier, gas is getting very expensive.

[djwini]

i use firefox.
but now i see how when i click on the route, down below there is a delete. i was trying to do it from the listing page.
thanks guys

[djwini]

sometimes those events with not a lot of people attending are the best. gives you a better chance to get to know the others.
wish i could go but sundays we have other obligations.

[djwini]

we visited the valley of fire national park. there were some excellent petroglyphs on the canyon walls. well worth the time to visit. wasn’t geocaching then so i don’t know if there were caches there.

[djwini]

i did the same thing earlier this year. in between muscle relaxers, i’d spend time on the computer doing the research for a bunch of puzzle caches. just take it easy when you do get back to caching. we all know how much bending and ducking we do on those wooded trails.

[djwini]

i have one with 35,000 miles. started here, went out to washington and oregon. went to singapore and china and japan. went to malta and got lost. restarted the copy in florida, and it’s bouncing around down there.

i’ve also got one in scotland and japan. i’ve got another that the last log was in afghanistan. finder is in the air force. sure hope nothing happened to him.

[djwini]

If you open up the file in a text editor, you’ll see all the Google Earth XML tags. Ignore all the stuff at the top and find the section at the end. If you look at all your KML files in order, you’ll notice that the last coordinate for one file os the same as the first coordinate for the next file.

Copy everything between the tags from the second file (but not the tags themselves) and paste it after all the coordinates in the first file, deleting the duplicate tags I mentioned above.

Open your third file and repeat the process.

Ignore all the other XML tags in the file. When you upload them to GC.com, they are all ignored except for the name of the route, but you can change that after the upload.

i knew i once saw that answer. just had to delve deeply in the old help questions

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