Anyone like Geocaching ???

[randco]

We are spending a couple of days in Charleston, SC. Yesterday we went into the city. We found parking in a central part of the city around Meeting St. south of the visitor center. We headed out on foot with our Garmin 60CSx in hand. We found about a half dozen caches within walking distance. We are hopefully going to find a few more around the campground. We are staying in the Lake Aire RV Park in Hollywood, SC. about 12 miles from downtown. The park is nice and clean and pretty quiet. There is a pool and a lake for fishing. Grass sites with 50 amp service, water and sewer. Our pull-through site runs about $25 per night with Passport America.

[OLYLEN]

For those with Droid or Iphone with GPS, a new "FREE" App C:geo----you can do it all from here as long as you gave internet connection and you can down load caches to the phone for off line. Search for caches in your area, has all info on the cach, find cach, log cach, all live.

LEN

[lostagain]

Great fun and you go to places you never new existed. We have 2123 finds all over the US and some foreign countries.

[AB7OH]

I have been Geocaching for 10 months now with 644 finds and my best day of 60 finds. We love it. It good for your mind and hunting for some of the hides is a challenges for you physically.

[ShannyFE]

Just got into it over the last 6 months and was very fortunate to find some in Daytona Beach while also picking up a few travel bugs then dipping them on our trip from Flordia to Greece and then back to PEI Canada. It is very enjoyable to follow the journeys of the travel bugs and know you were part of helping them in their travels. I have since started to hide some geocaches of my own and start a few travel bugs. Maybe I will start a travel bug and name it "RV - Geocacger" and write up a discription about wanting to meet up with other RV - Geocachers. Now all I have to do is find a small toy RV that I can attach a travel bug tag and it'll be on the road. I will receive emails as finders retreive and move it along it's travels. I will post a link to the travel bugs web site that anyone can follow its movements and look at its mapping.

Cheers for now, got to go shoping for a toy RV small enough to fit in some ofvthese caches.

[dangofamily]

@Shanny what a great idea.

We have been interested in geocaching for years but our busy lives get on the way. We will be full timing starting tomorrow so hopefully we can enjoy finding some caches soon.

[IRVTrekin2]

Hi my Geocaching handle is Biloxi Bay and I have over 6300 finds. I just found this thread, I usually don't get this far, get hung up in the MH section or Tiffin. Geocaching has really been growing by leaps and bounds over the last few years, currently there are over 1.5 million hides world wide. Rving and Geocaching just seem to be a natural fit, traveling around the country, caching brings you to places and shows you things you would never see if you were not caching. My caching partner 'Leftygator' tried to introduce me to caching in Oct of 2003 when we had our rv's in Natchez for the balloon races. We had been friends and campers with our wives for a long time. He had just started this new thing called Geocaching and talked me into going into the woods to look for one, of course neither of us really knew what we were looking for and the only thing we found that day was a huge case of the red bugs. He tried to get me interested a couple more times over the next couple of years but I just didn't seem to have the time. I found my first cache in July of 2007 when I retired and have been hooked ever since. I cache with Leftygator about 95% of the time and the other 5% I take either of my grown kids, son-in-law or grandkids. The grandkids love it, a big treasure hunt, they like finding the larger containers that hold swag (stuff they can trade like, compasses, small toys, whistles, etc). I use a Garmin NUVI 760 that I load the caches into using the GSAK software, this little unit gives me driving directions to the caches. I use a Garmin 60CSx hand held GPS for the finds once we park and get out of the truck. The NUVI also holds all the cache page information in the unit so we can read about it on the way to the next cache. A really great part of caching is the nice people you meet at events or on the trail caching.

[ShannyFE]

I have finally taken the time to order some travel bug tags and register them. Currently I am trying to find somrthing close to an RV, like a small toy trailer or coach. This will not be an easy task as it will have to be small enough to fit most containers used as caches. If I fail, what I will do is create something to attach to the tags with the hope that some other RV'er comes across something that would fit the bill an attach the tags to it. The reference number for the travel bug is TB48PZ4. This will allow anyone to acces its travels. I am presently traveling on my way back from Calgary thru the States and am presently in Bangor just getting ready to start our last keg home to PEI Canada. I will drop the TB and hope it makes its way of the island before winter. I will keep everyone up to date on its travels.

Cheers for now

Frank

[IRVTrekin2]

Travel bugs and Geocoins are a great sideline to Geocaching. It is really neat to find one in a cache and move it along to another cache for the owner. Each trackable travel bug or geocoin has their own web page so that the owner can track it's movement where ever it goes, as long as the cacher that finds it and moves it logs where he found it and the cache he drops it in. Anyone can watch any travel bug or coin move around by putting what they call a watch on that travel bug or coin.

I own 8 travel bugs and 23 geocoins and have moved or discovered 427 others. I have one geocoin 'From Dawn until Dusk Geocoin' that I have logged in and out of every cache I have been too since I started caching and it currently has 61437 miles on it. Of course these miles are figured by the program in line-of-sight miles between the caches and not true miles as driven which would be a lot more.

I had one geocoin 'Proximity' that had 7249 miles on it moving around in Europe and someone in Germany took it. Had another one "What's in Your Mailbox' with 14,214 miles on it that was taken to Jordan and a cacher picked it up and said it was on it's way to France, but that was back in January and it hasn't been logged into another cache yet.

There are still a lot of travel bugs moving around but not too many coins anymore because people take them and don't log them and they are gone forever, so not many cachers put them out to move around anymore. Best of luck Frank on your new rv travel bug hope it goes many miles.

[diepenj]

I was introduced to geo caching almost 10 years ago. I do a lot of driving in my job so it's a natural fit. Quite often I will do a little caching when I'm staying overnight in a new town. I like the caches that offer bit of history to the area.

Another advantage to caching while I'm working or RVing is taking some travel bugs for some nice cross country rides.

Over the past couple years, I've used my iPhone with the APP. It's an easy way to find caches while driving cross country. The iPhone APP isn't as accurate as a hand-held GPS but the convenience outweighs that.

Happy geo cache hunting.

[JimM68]

Interesting. My DW has talked about this on and off for a few years, but we've never done it.

I have a magellan roadmate gps, and the closest I've come to looking for a chache was to discover thare appears to be no way to enter a lat / long into the thing.

Thanks for the tip on the android app, that could work for me. maybe I'll surprise her and setup some to find locally?

[ShannyFE]

I have finnaly found an RV toy that I can use as a travel bug or in this case a travel RV. I will try and post a photo as soon as I can. Looking forward to getting this little fellow out there with hopes that fellow RVers will move it along.

Cheers

Frank

[IRVTrekin2]

Was in the Georgia Mountains the week before Easter to do some fly fishing. The night we arrived it poured all night and the Toccoa River was up about a foot and very muddy the next day so no trout fishing that day. We (my son, son-in-law, and two grandkids) decided to try and find and old cache that was hidden in 2001, Toccoa Suspension Bridge (GC2680). We drove along many dirt roads, made a stream crossing in an SUV and finally had to park it when we came to a huge mud puddle that someone had laid sapplings across to try and cross. We hiked the rest of the way and finally were rewarded at the sight of this really neat old suspension bridge in the middle of nowhere. The cache was hidden about 400' up a steep hill from the bridge. This is the kind of cache that makes geocaching so much fun and challenging.

[ShannyFE]

Here is a photo of the RV travel bug that I will be dropping here in the first cache that I hide. This is the link to the web site that displays the TB along it's route (TB48PZ4) Travel Bug Dog Tag - RV travel Bug