Saturday, January 27, 2007

Geocaching


I was 1 out of 2 today. I didn't find Blisterine but did find "Get to the Bottom of This. It was a small Tupperware that was full of ice. I broke the log book out of the ice and it was surprisingly in good shape. I left a red ball in the cache. On my way to the cache I passed this area that had all kinds of stuff. Suitcase, bags, coats, caps, BBQ grill, tubs, pocket watch, big mug, toothpaste, deodorant and more. I brought a tub, suitcase, a bag, cap and the watch back with me threw out the suitcase even though it was in pretty good shape I didn't know how to clean it up. I will look at the other stuff tomorrow see what is worth keeping and what I should pitch. Of course I picked up a bag of cans too. I found a bag and case from the first cache too. I also saw a toilet in route to both caches. I seem to see a lot of those.


I thought of a new idea. Posting the coordinates of the historical markers on the road. MD has lots of them and I have taken a picture of a lot them although I think I lost a bunch on one of the 1 time use cameras I was using that couldn't be developed. I took pictures of two today and marked the coordinates.


There is a site: http://www.waymarking.com/ you can post the coordinates for most anything. It is arranged in categories and subcategories but you have to be a premium member to create your own categories. There is a "Signs" category and I suggested a historical marker sub-subcategory. Well see if anybody starts it.


There is also http://www.waypoint.org/ that just collects way-points. I have added a bunch to that before maybe I will add the signs to it.

Here is the kind of sign I am talking about:

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