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Sara, I agree about Jodi Picoult. I read “Perfect Match,” have you read “Plain Truth?” My book club had that choice earlier this year and it was riveting subject matter, especially since where I live, contact with the Amish is a fairly frequent occurence for us.
Just finished “Anansi Boys” by Neil Gaiman. Now I’m reading “The Memory Keepers Daughter” by Kim Edwards. Next on my list is “Animal Vegetable Miracle,” by Barbara Kingsolver, and in between all of this is “Return to Wild America” by Scott Weidensaul.
So what are you reading, Marc?
Congratulations indeed! That’s a lot of miles to reach this accomplishment. We might make it in, oh, 2020!
Our challenge right now is the Zuma Miles series. We have to get all of those. The first “unfound” on our page is the final for this series! LOL
SammyClaws, I agree with you, putting out caches–and releasing geocoins/TBs–is more our way of repaying the caching community for letting us play. I do enjoy the logs, but I understand not everyone wants to write a book about their experience.
After checking one of our caches today–one we placed in mid-April—I wonder if anyone will thank us for it if they do it right now! Though I have to say, some of the thorny stuff one passes to get to the cache includes black raspberries! I’ve been eating my share of those as I cache lately. No nettles or poison ivy there, just lots of underbrush to find this one. And hills. And a bit of a hike. Especially the way we chose to go today. I’m all in now! Trekkin’ kept complaining that we weren’t even getting a smiley for this one!
I did put my red Jeep and a geocoin in it, though. Can’t wait to read any new logs. No one’s been there since April 29. 😥
Frizz, no kidding! You guys are the lean, green caching machines! Keep it up and congratulations!
The geocaching community is an extremely opinionated one.
Marc, Fear not, controversy like this isn’t the sole province of the geocaching community. The birding lists get into it. The storytell list will argue endlessly about “paid v. non-paid,” “what is storytelling?” ad nauseum. If you want to see real nastiness, hang around some of the large scrapbooking websites long enough. I’ve seen people have their career RUINED on those, talk about contentious!
According to Trekkin’, the historical trekking boards aren’t any better. Guess people are just funny, no matter what their interests! 😉
Well, I’m a storyteller by trade, so what does that tell you? 😉 I will say that I try not to go on for too long, although certain caches truly deserve full accounts. “Lair” is one that comes to mind, for instance. I had a blast doing that log, because that cache was such an adventure.
There is a new cache in our area, the only one that I ever really cared about getting FTF. Without saying too much about it, it demands long log entries. I’ve been surprised it hasn’t gotten more action, because it’s in a great area close to at least three other caches, including one of ours. I wonder if people are shying away from it because they’ve looked to see what’s been logged already and they just don’t want to have to do that?
Congrats to you! Hope our caching paths can cross one day!
bugsmasher, that’s just terrible! We released another coin today, but in a cache that is pretty of out of the way. I think it may have a terrain rating of 3 as well, but around here, I’d say over half of them have at least that! LOL
It does make me angry to think someone’s out there taking advantage of the generosity of those who put coins out to share, instead of spending the cash to buy their own. May a curse fall upon them!
Thanks for making me LOL, frizz! Just don’t let Loungin’, our 17 year old, get hold of logic like this. He has enough of his own as it is! 🙄
Oh joy! Adding to the good news stories, our missing coin reappeared in a cache that was actually not too far from the one from whence it vanished. Someone found it today in a different area, then dropped it and logged it. Hurray!
Whoever grabbed it never logged it out, never mentioned taking it. I emailed all who’d been to that cache since it was placed. No one remembered it, but maybe someone found it in their stash and dropped it in this other one for people to find.
It happens. We’re just glad to see it’s getting to travel again.
Trekkin’ said the same thing. Opening weekend, he usually is on one of the trout streams around here while I’m birding. Not this year.
We went geocaching. 😳
Welcome, I think there are quite a few “state straddlers” here. In the storytelling world, we say folks who cross the border from Illinois are crossing the “Cheddar Curtain!”
Welcome, Devils Lake is an awesome area. You can still scramble up the rock trail there, and there are some cool birds that show up every winter there, too.
That was my first experience with actual rock climbing, btw. Long ago. But I’ve done it since, too, as recently as last summer. And I’m OLD!
Tell us about caching on the east coast!
Thanks, I place the blame squarely on the ones born with Italian surnames–Trekkin’ and his brother Mr. TE, who introduced us to this!
Tomorrow we canoe again. This is more work than teaching little kids!
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