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This brought back some bad memories. The last time I was in England, I was taking a cab from our factory (in Frimley Green) to my hotel (in Woking). Its about 15km through the countryside on winding roads, so the drive takes about 20 minutes. I’m sitting in the back with a consultant, discussing a project. Well, an hour goes by before we notice, at which time we look out and notice that nothing looks familiar. The driver says he’s lost and pulls over to ask directions. Apparently no one in the pub knows where Woking is. I notice he has an in-dash GPS. Looking at it, we are about 40km from Woking. Then he tells us that he was trying to follow the GPS to Woking, but the TWO navigation systems keep giving him different directions. It turns out that the company programmed the correct address into the in dash, but he had his OWN GPS in his cell phone(which turned out to be set for the Holiday Inn in Central London!) So, why didn’t we end up in London? The guy was turning whenever EITHER GPS told him to turn, essentially going in a 20 km circle, rather than just following one of them. 2.5 hours after starting we got out of the cab 3 blocks from the hotel. (I wasn’t going to trust him to drive the 10 blocks on one way streets it takes to travel those 3 blocks!).

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Woohoo! Great job!

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Congrats, Roger! (But you realize it doesn’t really count until you can log a find on “Get Your Free Maps Here!”)

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@tyedyeskyguy wrote:

Well, since this thread is titled “Sugest a new place for an event” I nominate Rocky Arbor State Park in Wisconsin Dells.

Jay, just playing devil’s advocate on your idea:

Pluses: Central location, great scenery, proximity to lots of permanent caches, proximity to other lodging/activities
Minuses: No group camping, kinda small (250 acres and only 2 miles of trails, Peninsula is around 3200 acres), South of Eau Claire 😛

Maybe this might work for the picnic, but probably too small for the campout. On the other hand, I think it would be great for a local event.

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Hey, we have some finds in NE Illinois too! 😳 Besides, people are placing caches around here so quickly that we can’t even keep up with those. I think I received around 25 notices last week for Kenosha County alone. We in the middle of a geocaching boom! 😀

Thanks for the sentiment, Mark. Seriously, the next planned junket is to Dane/Rock/Green county (we know, we know, they are still south) to pickup those counties and their Delorme pages. After that, I think the next stop will be up to your neck of the woods. (We probably will have to spend at least a week solving all the puzzles before we go!)

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Unfortunately, there are some people who will COLLECT anything, even things that don’t belong to them. There are a lot of words that would describe people like that, but the nicest is THIEVES! The Jeeps are especially bad, because they don’t actually belong to a person (they belong to Daimler-Chrysler, I think), so some people think its ok to steal from a corporation when they wouldn’t steal from a person.

Now, quit whining and go get the Jeep out of Clue:TA.

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@Cheesehead Dave wrote:

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You can find a database of all the ones I’ve entered here.

Do you ever NOT make a webpage for one of your projects? 😆

Nice job on this too. I get a kick out of some of the other public routes out there. “My house to grandma’s house”, etc. Do these guys think someone else is going to use that route?

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Not quite what you are looking for, but have you tried the caches along a route function on GC.Com. You can specify a particular highway route and then get all the caches within a specified distance of the highway. There is a fairly large number of useful routes already uploaded to GC.com (as well as an even larger number of useless routes originating from peoples houses) and you can search for routes by zip code or city. Once you have a route, you are only a couple clicks from a working PQ of the area.

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They used that same number in that report issued by the DNR that someone posted here. I think they did a survey and just extrapolated, because it also said that something like 80% of the population are hikers and something like 90% are fisherpersons. Given the number of people that we see on the trails every weekend (we can hike around Bong and see NO hikers for hours), we can safely say that the question answered for the survey (not necessarily the question asked) was “Have you ever participated in or do you hope to participate in (blank)?”, rather than “Do you regularly participate in (blank)?”. It appears that the goal of this survey was to make it look like most of the population is spending their time on the state recreation lands. It would be nice if it were true, but we all know differently.

If you think about it that way, maybe there are 90000 people who have gone caching once with a friend or relative. We even had a stranger tagging along on Oak Creek Tiny Park Tour when they saw us searching around WP3 and offered to help. (He thought we had dropped something down the XXXXX where the waypoint was hidden.) He followed us on his bike to the final and found his first cache with us. Now, did he ever try it again? Who knows, but probably not. But I bet if asked in a survey, he would say he was a geocacher.

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Congrats! One goal down, on to the next.

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For those of us using GSAK, there is a macro on the website called (appropriately enough) counties.txt. This macro will put the name of the county in the User Data 2 field. Very handy and quick to use (after the first run, which takes a while. Also, you need to download the coordinates for the Wisconsin counties (and any other state you are interested in.) Instructions are provided.

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@PCFrog wrote:

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@tyedyeskyguy wrote:

I for one would be glad to buy many of them.

Jay, they don’t have any ammo cans small enough to fit into a fake walnut!

Please tell me he does not actually have a cache that is a walnut.

Without naming specific caches, some recently hidden caches (not hidden by me!) in SE Wisconsin have included all sorts of fake objects, including nuts. No one ever said it had to be easy! Fortunately, we have lots of ammo boxes, film cans, key holders, and just about every other type of container, so if you don’t like hunting these “creative” containers, you can just hunt the “regular” ones.

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Woohoo! Great job, Anne!

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I guess it depends on how you define “OF THE MONTH”. I personally would define it as either the current month or the previous month. Since this cache has been disabled for more than 2 months, I suppose some people must define “OF THE MONTH” as “sometime in the past”. That said, I don’t think it is necessarily against the rules, just kind of odd.

I think the main purpose of COTM is to draw attention to worthy caches for others to seek. It is basically a glorified recommendation system. Nominating (or voting for) disabled or archived caches would seem to be counter to this purpose.

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@tyedyeskyguy wrote:

I for one would be glad to buy many of them.

Jay, they don’t have any ammo cans small enough to fit into a fake walnut!

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