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I have the Oregon and that often happens to me when the letters or numbers are at the edges of the screen. I have found that a lighter touch seems to help with this problem, but not always. I know that’s not much help.
WoW! We knew you guys worked hard, but that’s pretty amazing. And I thought I saw you were still able to get out and find a few, too. Thanks for all the hard work you both do.
Ha ha Marie, you’ll get no sympathy from me! Let’s see…..Hawaii or new caches in Wisconsin?
No contest. Have fun. Which islands? I only visited Oahu, but hope to go back and visit other islands, too. Paradise on earth.
I took it as an April Fools joke, which inspired me to create an April Fools Challenge.
So would this challenge involve finding fool’s caches? We have over a hundred here if anyone needs to find caches owned by fools! 🙄
Since leaving the WGA Board, I have chosen to pretty much stay out of these discussions and hang out to congratulate folks or play pointless FTP games in the non-geocaching forum. However….
There are many things about getting older I have not liked. Feeling the aches after a long day of hiking in the woods. The deepening crease between my brows from worry. And there’s the rub. One thing above all I have celebrated about age is this….none of us can really control the actions of another. We can’t worry about that over which we have no control, which is basically the actions of everyone but ourselves. We might be able to have some influence by walking the talk instead of talking it. But that’s about it.
There are logs that we didn’t sign. If we cached with a group of friends, usually it fell to the finder to sign us all in. We have signed the wrong dates on logsheets. Comes from being retired and losing track of time. We have solved every puzzle on caches we’ve found, if not before the find, then before we log the “found it.” But we all know there are others who don’t adhere to that personal rule. So be it.
This is a game. Nothing more. It may have as many versions as there are geocachers, but it’s still a game. All we can ever hope to do is go out, find caches and enjoy ourselves. We will never be able to control what others choose to do when they go out. I know it sucks when people want it so bad that they’ll do things to get it, but that’s not my problem. Even when it’s my cache. If I have encouraged others to try something new because of a cache, even if they didn’t “find it as the owner intended,” I’m happy. I’ve learned, with age, that there ARE important things in this world for my energy and outrage. The geocaching habits of others are not one of these things.
Ghandi was a smart man. Be the change in the world you want to see. People are watching. If people decide to react, people will look at that differently than if you quietly go out to enjoy this game according to whatever your geo-ethics might be. Yes, I am reacting with this post, but I have also taken the words of some great statesman whose name I can’t remember (age again) to the effect that doing nothing can be as bad as doing something. Disreali, I think.
Enjoy placing the caches for the fun you know others will have finding them, no matter their intent. Enjoy finding them in the same way. If anyone wants to discuss my comments, go ahead and email me. But this is all I’m going to say now and maybe forever on this never-ending topic.
Hope you have had a wonderful birthday, Bec!
Letterboxing. Different enough that it catches my interest.
We’re up to at least 30 of the nasty little deer ones now, but get this…
Yesterday, we’re in St. Paul. We were trying to get this one cache where we had to wear our waders, walk almost .2 in an underground storm tunnel with the crayfish, and while trying to find the cache, I pulled a deer tick out of my hair!
Only tick either of us had all day and we did a bunch of caches in a nature preserve….after that one.
Trekkin’s brother Timberline Echoes had been geocaching for a couple years, and kept telling us how fun it was. We thought it sounded kind of stupid. Dick had his GPSr for hunting and fishing. I’d been up doing a birding workshop at Trees for Tomorrow and met with TE for dinner one evening, and they told me we really should look into giving it a try. Fine.
So when I got home a few days later, we looked up the closest cache to our home, which was http://coord.info/GCPCBH
Interestingly, in the almost six years since that time, there are now four more in between that one and us. Another point of interest is the fact that when we started in 2006, there were not quite 25 pages of caches listed within 50 miles of our home. Now there are 109 pages of caches in that range.“Trail Toys” is still there. In fact, we took sandlanders to it not too long ago. The rest is, as they say, history. Thank you Timberline Echoes for finally convincing us to have some fun with this goofy game!
Congratulations….we do appreciate the challenge of getting to a number like that in a lightly saturated area….we had to go down near Decorah Iowa when we were at that point, too.
Glad it all worked out so well, down to that date and hour!
Congratulations Pete! You know, if you’d done this a month ago that quicksand wouldn’t be a problem!
Seriously, great milestone for a great guy.
That’s the spirit, Becca, but I’m deciding to scrap the idea. I will say, I do have my dulcimer packed and ready to head to the World Capital of Folk Music….bring it on!
We’d love to do that event, but it’s always held the same weekend as my storytelling conference. We cached the island a couple years ago and had a blast, and a good half of those caches were archived and replaced with new, so there’d be lots for us to do. Hope you can find someone, because it really is a fun place to cache.
That could explain our Internet going out for several hours! Too crappy to go outside today anyway.
Oh how fun! I’m tempted to sign up, but I learned my lesson about far advance planning last fall when I wanted to do the Warrior Dash thing.
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