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@tick27 wrote:
most of the time John tags along with me. sometimes I do it by myself. my cousin loves geocaching, but she lives in California or else I’m sure we’d get together more and do this together.
Ah, tick, you have been mislead by this topic…….
AK – 15. HI – 2 !! Someone got bored, and moved?
April 2008 numbers compared to April 2007.
1234-438 Europe
692-437 California – 35 million population
544-193 Germany
214-128 Texas – 22m
204-126 Washington – 6m !!
190-107 Ohio – 11m
151-91 Florida – 17m
196-76 United Kingdom
109-74 Tennessee – 6m
125-74 Illinois – 12m
143-67 Pennsylvania – 12m
116-65 Wisconsin – 5m
116-60 New York – 19m
136-58 Netherlands
107-57 Onatrio
110-57 Arizona – 6m
61-40 Massachusetts – 6m
73-37 Australia
42-20 New Jersey – 8mInteresting how some of the more populous states have such small numbers.
Nothing wrong with looking at puzzles in other states! I do it all the time.
I’ll think this one over ………….
There has been a lot of coming and going since the last posting.
Maverick has disappeared.
Shorty has been downgraded to a field position. His replacement is ……. ?
Have lost contact with Gabby.
Anyone else ‘new’ out there?
Three of us left at 6:30 AM, and got back around 9 PM.
A total of 35 finds, and only one DNF. Also did 3 cache rescues.
bump
The fallen or damaged stones are probably a combination of both age and some intentional damage. Unless it is a particular cemetery, targeted by vandals, most damage is not too noticeable.
Time is the biggest culprit. Settling earth causes many stones to tip, and eventually fall. Any stones flat on the ground tend to sink into the earth, and gradually become absorbed.
I have heard of a group that goes to different cemeteries, and fixes the problems. Re setting stones, etc. But there are too many cemeteries in need for them to ever make a difference.
Also, different materials wear at different rates. Some stones from barely a hundred years ago are now unreadable.
Personally, I take the view that time changes all. What will the cemetery look like in 500 years, or in 1000? Will it even exist.
I had an uncle die in February, and the question is where his ashes might rest. With his parents in Missouri; brother in Texas; wife in Minnesota? In-laws in Wisconsin?
Whichever place might be chosen, who will be here in 50 years to visit? Where will all his relatives be by then?
When you visit a cemetery with fallen stones, others covered with lichen, or faded writing, you are seeing Time progress through it’s normal routine.
@K0rpl wrote:
Don’t beleive a word Frizz says. I don’t know of any addicted cachers in Green Bay….
😈Hi! My name is Justin. I am a geo-cacher!
(Repeat every day!).
(Oh, and to really parody this whole thing, Dave is ….welll ….. Dave??? I do not think he has the coffe pot going…….)
So I really do not need to know the name of the GPS in order to use it!
The xTrex, Legend and the GPS V are gone. Sold or given away.
The Ventures were worn out! That is what happens when you cache so much!
Currently I have a Venture and the Street Pilot.
OK, if everyone is bragging…..here are all the Grmin’s I have owned:
xTrex
Venture
Venture
GPS V (Sheila 1.0)
Venture
30cs? (Which ever one I won at the Eau Claire event back then….)
Venture
Street Pilot 2360 (?) (Sheila 2.0)
Venture
Congratulations!
Now, if your can make it to be bar at the immensely crowded Millennium Club, I’ll buy…..
@Timberline Echoes wrote:
Headin’ to Escanaba for the event there.. nice to know you won’t be there Marc, or else we would have to hide our Palm this year… 😆
TEI’m working on a long distance disrupter!
I thinking are hallucinating!
Congratulations, Hemi! and you thought 1000 was so far away………….
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