OREGON400T

We have just upgraded to a Garmin Oregon 400T. So far it is very user friendly, like the idea of paperless caching, and being able to get the cache directly from the cache page into the Garmin from the computer and the touch screen.

How we got into caching

I've never done a Blog in my life, so this may all be in vain.
We were dragged into caching kicking and screaming, May, 2004.
One very warm summer evening our oldest son and family pull into the drive and said, "Let's go caching"! We knew nothing of this, we were computer illiterate, never saw a GPS in our lives and only understood the word from what we read or saw on the telly.
"What do you mean walk in the woods and hunt for what? We camp, but, I was getting older and was in no mood to tackle salty sweat that drew bugs and mosquitoes. We declined.
The following weekend we were camping with family and friends and after we were set up, our son puts a GPS in Hubby's hands and says follow it to the cache in VOLO Bogs near where we were camping. We did and it was my first encounter with poison ivy....ever! Also downed, rusted, barb wire fencing. We were eaten alive. We were hot, sweaty and I really knew I needed a shower.
For most people that would have finished it. Not us! We bought a Little Blue Garmin. Now, I found myself trailing Hubby and he was having all the fun finding caches. After much discussion, I inherited the Little Blue Garmin and he bought himself a Garmin Rhino. From there we realized his Rhino had a radio and if we had two, We could keep track of each other in the woods, etc., plus Co-ords could be sent from one to the other. We recently sent both in for repair and ended up with two reconditioned ones. Mine was in extreme need of repair as it has taken a dip in a river along with me (Not planned) rubber worn off and bare metal exposed. Both rhinos had tape holding pieces on. I even used glue on the aerial because the rubber guard had cracked in half.
Are we Cache fanatics?? You decide.

Renee and Wally (Happy2Wanderers)


Posted by Joe by request

Introduction

You can find me on Groundspeak as greywolf1242; the last two digits gives away my age. I’ve been an outdoors person all my life, trapping muskrats, mink and fox as a kid in Ohio. It was because of my love of the outdoors and my advancing age that I decided to get a GPSr to take with me on my long hikes in the desert, usually alone, just in case I needed to contact someone and let them know where they could find me in an emergency. Shortly after purchasing my first GPSr a friend called to tell me about the Groundspeak website. I joined the same day, Jan 16, 2006 but it was a little while before I actually got out to search for any caches. But, after that first day I became addicted to the sport.
Living on a limited income, and the increased gas prices this past year, kept me searching fairly close to home. But that also lead to an aspect of geocaching that I enjoy just as much…hiding caches! Unfortunately, that activity, under greywolf1242, ended last year for reasons I won’t go into. When I stopped seeking and hiding caches I had 900 finds, 270 caches hidden, of which 31 are now archived, 15 have been adopted out, and 18 went unpublished. I also have 217 Waymarks and 349 Benchmarks.
You meet some of the nicest people through geocaching. One of those people I’ve met was indirectly responsible for me finding out about Older But Wiser(?). Quietbreezes (Corky) was a very special person to all who knew her. Although she suffered through countless surgeries throughout her life in her battle with cancer, I never once heard her complain; not about the pain, nor about her lot in life. She was a very big inspiration to me in my fight to get control of diabetes I was diagnosed with a year and a half ago.
I had the pleasure of caching with Corky on a number of occasions, when she was feeling up to being out and about, and they were all memorable experiences. She was a puzzle solver beyond belief and had a good eye for finding those hard to find caches. Corky lived life to the fullest every day. The last time I saw her in the hospital her first words to me was to ask how I was doing with my diabetes, even though she was in extreme pain and minutes away from going in for one more surgery. Corky was always thinking of others.
The way Corky was indirectly responsible for me finding out about OBW(?), is through a cache I placed as a tribute to her while she was still in the hospital: Tribute to Quietbreezes (GC1C9HK). AbbysGrammy, Sharron, contacted me so she could contribute to Corky’s memory. Pull up the cache page and you can find out what can be done if you are interested in honoring a fellow geocacher.
Although I am no longer seeking or placing caches as greywolf1242, there are still 200+ caches out there that I have hidden, plus the 15 I adopted out. They will remain active as long as I am able to maintain them, so others can have the opportunity of adding to their numbers and see some sights they most likely would not have seen otherwise. Nearly all of my caches are hidden in the desert country of southern Idaho, so bring water with you if you decide to look for them. And I can still be reached through my profile on Groundspeak, should you be coming to my part of the country and want to get together or need some help in finding some of the more difficult ones.
I do have 25 other caches hidden under another name and if you are interested in those drop me a line through Groundspeak. I’m looking forward to some of you making a trip through southern Idaho so I might get the chance of meeting you…like I said, you meet some of the nicest people through caching. Thanks, Sharron, for the invite to join this group!

Lookin'Good & the Happy Hobos

After a chance meeting at a cache in Benson, AZ, we met the Happy Hobos again at a Flash Mob Event in Casa Grande and then for a day-long cachin' run up the Sun Valley Parkway in the Phoenix area. This picture was taken at the end of a record-setting day of us -- 45 finds!  We have really enjoyed their company and plan to keep in touch.  Thanks to OBW for bringing us together!

Tale of a cache container

Well, here is something I thought you all might be interested in-

I was at the staton (WELY) last Saturday in Ely, MN- taking phone requests for our polka program, when in walks a man I have never seen before. He says,"Are you eagleyes?" Flaberghasted I reply yes. In his hand he hand a cache container - I recognized it as one of ours.

Here is the story. He and his city worker partner were trimming trees at the Chamber of Commerce and hauling the branches to the compost pile. At some point, Tom saw my container in the branches that had already been hauled to the dump when they took another load there. Tom looked at it, and although he is not a cacher, he knew that Jim, his partner, was- at least Jim's son is and Jim has been caching a few of my caches with his son. So he kept the container- now, as we all know- our cache handles usually are secret to the general caching public. I thanked him after he told me the story and he left. I then went in to the DJ and asked him who this guy was- and Mike told me. The thing is, I wasn't supposed to be at the station that Saturday- it was by pure chance. Somehow Mike knew about the container, and when he saw me at the station he called Jim to let him know and Jim came. Well, now- I have sent them both restaurant gift certificates as a thankyou- BUT THE BIG QUESTION IS: How did Jim equate eagleyes with me?? I will never know- ever. It goes to prove that in a small town- people know you are dead before the undertaker does- probably in some cases, before the deseased even does. When I was a teen- grandma would go to early Mass and know, before I got up on Sunday morning, where I had been and whom I had been with. One Friday a few years ago we tried to sneak into town through the back roads about 11 pm, just wanting a private weekend with no social life. But- on Sat there was a welcome home polka request for me- someone saw us-Here I am 60+ years old and people still care enough to keep an eye on me- arghhhhh- I will never know how Jim equated me with eagleyes because when I asked him and Mike, they both just smiled - arghhhhhhhh. Happy caching.

HI TO ALL THE OBW'S FROM SUNNY BUT COOL MYRTLE BEACH

We were asked to post a couple of pictures by abbysgrammy so here they are. The first was taken recently after we got here for the winter months at our 2000th find and was a puzzle cache put out by EZtrack. The second was taken at our Christmas Bash hosted by ourselves and the other young man in the middle our good friend EXtrack. The third was taken at the November meeting of our group the Grand Strand Geocachers. Hope all is well with everyone and now that gas has gone way way down our plans have changed again for the spring and we will be setting out again across the country and we hope to be able to get together with some of you as we travel. Everybody take care and have a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a very very HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

Tweety & Coach..........ftjak

MINNESOTA to NASHVILLE

http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=34437

This travel bug left Minnesota and is now in Oklahoma. Its goal is a cache near Nashville:

"Ce-der" Cache (GCTX02) Exit 40 off I 24

Help it along if you can. It is a metal state of Minnesota keychain.

happy hobos and Lookin' Good

It's a small world. We met Lookin' Good,a couple of weeks ago in Benson, AZ at a cache site. Now today we met up with them again in Casa Grande, AZ. We both attended the November Flash Bob Cache Event, and found 28 caches together today.
What a great day.

This is what OBW(?)'s is all about

Had a call from the Happy Hobos today from out in Arizona and they had met up with Dos Tortugus. This is exactly what I hoped would happen among our OBW(?) group-find fellow cachers along your travels and meet and greet and cache or whatever. Carl even said they almost met up with 2HappyWanderers but they were going in opposite directions.
We were so happy to have the Happy Hobos drop in to visit at the hospital last month.
Keep those meetings going and please post notes and picutres.

Sharon (AbbysGrammy)

FYI

For anyone that is interested, Joe and I have a blog detailing our travails over the past 2 months:

http://www.sharonshipadventure.blogspot.com/

Best wishes to everyone and hope we can see alot of you in the new year. Don't forget to put GeoWoodstock 7 on your calendars for May 23, 2009 in Bell Buckle, TN. It's going to be BIG and FUN!!!!!!!

NashvilleJoe and AbbysGrammy(Joe and Sharon)

Engaged At My Cache

I just read a log on one of my caches which is by a beautiful waterfall reached after about a 20 minute hike. The gentleman proposed and she accepted at the cache site- Now how awesome is that!!!!

Lookin'Good - Wally and Christy

Christy and Wally at the Grand Canyon. Wow! That's close to their home!

Wally and Christy in the garden! This could be a garden in a backyard in England.

Hello from Scottsdale, AZ

We are Lookin’Good, Wally & Christy, from Scottsdale, AZ, retired and glad we discovered geocaching. We are lucky because the Phoenix area has thousands of geocaches so we have lots of opportunity to get out. And, of course, the weather here makes it easy to cache year round, though we did have to start about 4:45am during the summer to be done before it got too toasty!

We started geocaching last February after reading an article about it and really enjoy the hunting aspect & seeing the clever ways folks hide their containers. We’ve attended numerous local events and found that is the best way to meet other cachers. It was at a flashmob event in Flagstaff, AZ last May where we met Team NAB, who were on their way to GeoWoodstock in CA. They were so gracious in answering questions and giving us tips and tricks and pointers. We found a cache together before heading our separate ways but not before being asked to join this “exclusive” group of cachers!

We love taking road trips and geocaching has given us another reason to get off the highways and see this great country of ours. We still have lots of exploring to do so perhaps we’ll meet some of you on the road. And should you be in the Phoenix area, please contact us – we’d love to meet you, show you around our favorite spots and do some cachin’ together. We’re lookin’ forward to meeting you!

Posted for Wally and Christy by Joe.

Hi to everyone

You will have to be patient for your membership cards(I know you have been rushing to your mailbox everyday) as NashvilleJoe and I have been pretty busy lately. Please keep up with our activities via our blog:

sharonshipadventure.blogspot.com

Come on all you OBW(?)'s. Go ahead and post on here so we can all know about each other. I especially want pictures. Remember, if you are having troubles posting then just send your post to NashvilleJoe's e-mail and he'll post for you:

nashvillejoe@bellsouth.net

Keep on caching-Sharon (abbysgrammy)

OBW(?)s Meet & Eat Anywhere, Anytime!

This proves that OBW(?)s can and do get together at the drop of a hat (or phone call!). AG and NJ were on the way back from Maine and dropped by Crossville to the Cracker Barrel and were met by the Two Old Crows and the Hobos for a nice lunch! This happens fairly often! Post IS a little out of sequence but pictures just showed up!

Hi to everyone from Plano, TX

Joe and I and Bulli the Wonder Dog are down here in TX for me to have hip surgery this Monday afternoon. We have managed to get some caching done this week before seeing my Dr. 2 different days and having tests run at the hospital. We also went to an event today and enlisted 6 more OBW(?)'s. That gives us 85 members now. You'll notice that Joe has listed all our members with the city where they are located so that if anyone is visiting near another member, they can make contact and possibly get together. When Joe and I were up in Maine recently we contacted 3 of our members to meet for dinner and 2 came. That's what's fun about our group. On our way back from Maine we called up 2 couples to meet us for breakfast and we had another get-together. It can happen just any time and any where.
Hope more of you will write up something for the blog so we can all get to know each other. If you need help with it, write it up and send it to Joe and he'll post it for you:
nashvillejoe@bellsouth.net

Happy caching to everyone

Hello from rmlmbl

rklmbl aka Ron and Maribeth Laster live in Harmony, Arkansas, in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. (Most of our hides are located in zip 72830.) We were first exposed to geocaching by our daughter, but after a computer search, we could not find any geocaches close to our home. In September, 2004, we went on a trip to Canada with nonnipoppy, and in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, poppy took us to our first geocache. We have been geocaching on our own since October, 2004, and now there are 300+ caches in our home county!

We enjoy all aspects of geocaching, but we especially like to geocache with our grown children and with our friends. Our majority of caches have been found in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas (and surrounding states) but we have also had the opportunity to cache in Alaska, Germany, and Austria. We have been slowed down since May, 2008, because rkl suffered a stroke, but we're slowly getting back into the game.

We belong to the Arkansas Geocaching Association, and we frequently contribute to that forum. One of the best things about geocaching is the friendships we have made either on the trails or at events.

Eo orbis terrarum planto novus amicitia
Travel the world, make new friends.

Ron and Mary Beth

Hi to the group

Well, it only took me about a week to figure out what to do– actually I had a Gmail account but could not remember the password. Once I got past that the rest was easy. So where do I start? I guess at the beginning. I was a hiker and mountain climber and have had a love for the outdoors forever and came across a mention of geocaching in an online newsletter I was subscribed to. I looked it up online and saw there was a cache just a couple of miles from home. I had an old Garmin GPS III and loaded the coords in it and went for the hunt. It took me a while to figure out what I was doing but I did find it. ( It was later discovered by me that this was the First placed cache in NH.) That was June 23, 2002. I also found one other cache in the same park that evening. I WAS HOOKED. Let me now mention that I am married to a muggle!!- She tolerates my addiction for caching and travel but does not share the exact same passion. We have 4 children and 5 grandchildren some of whom enjoy caching on a limited basis. So basically I started caching as a loner. Soon I learned about events and met other cachers on the trail and discovered that there was a huge social aspect to this activity. I still cache mainly alone but love to hook up with my friends at the larger events and go out on multi day cache runs.
I met one local cacher early on– Bushwhack Bob– who was also a mountain climber and highpointer so we shared these activities. He was the one who got me into the GeoWoodstock events starting in Jacksonville, Fl and we have been to the last 4 rooming together. It was his fault ( along with Koneko) that it became ALL about the numbers. I used to just plug along but now have to keep looking at the stats. If the truth be told, I am a first born and that is an automatic passion for lists and numbers. I have JUST HAD to finish some lists that became an obsession for me. So I have found a cache in ALL 50 states, all the provinces of Canada ,Except for Nunavut where you can’t drive there ( I will fix that next summer when I FLY there). I have found the oldest cache hidden in all the 50 states except Virginia ( I will do that one in Oct-Nov) and have found caches in 8 other countries. I have visited over 60 countries but that was before I started geocaching.
My wife and I live in Hudson,NH and I have a business in the next door city of Nashua. We have a second home in York Beach, Maine where we spend most of our summer. We go to Florida for about 4-6 weeks each winter to visit her mother and my brother and to get out of the snow and cold. and geocache!!! We also try to get one international trip each year and I get to do one US-Canada road trip as well.
I am the baby of this group having just met the age requirement but would be happy to host and meet anyone traveling near us.. It is an honor for me to be asked to join this group and I thank Nashville Joe and AbbysGrammy for the invite. I am looking forward to meeting all the other people in this group.

PARKERPLUS

Looks like I'm in, now if I can get caught up on some of your blogs

What a great idea.

This is a great way for us OBW's to learn about each other. Thanks Nashville Joe and Abby's Grammy.
We have been caching now almost three years. We are full time RVer's and are in our 14th. year of traveling. Most places we have been there and done that. So we needed a new outlet to get us off our butts. We were in a RV resort in AZ, where they gave a seminar on geo-caching. They had hid a few caches around the resort and loaned us a yellow bananna gpsr. We were hooked and off and running. This added a whole new adventure to our travels. We started out with the Garmin(yellow bananna) now we have the Garmin 60CSx. We use Gsak and have a mobil office where we carry the laptop, using microsoft streets and trips with our caches loaded in. We have just recently passed our 2900th. cache. Have spent our summer near Roanoak, VA, just off the Blue Ridge Parkway. The plan is to leave here early September heading out west, TX, AZ and most of the winter in the Palm Springs, CA area. Of course by the time we do all our caching we won't arrive CA until end of the year.

Happy Hobos

OBW.....Well We Really Aren't Sure About That!!!!!!!

Hi to all you fellow OBW's we are Dori & Dick Faulkner (Tweety & Coach) and right now do not live anyplace as we are both retired and are full time RVer's traveling around the United States and geocaching as we go. Tweety was born in Auburn, NY and Coach in Syracuse, NY. We both had lived in that area all our lives. We have 4 sons Tim, Chris, Scott and Sean who are all married. We have 5 grandchildren Cody, Luke, Tyler, Alexis and Anna and 5 step grandchildren Rachel, Cory, Erica, Nikki, and Jasmine Rose (Rosie). Our children live in Camillus, NY, Binghamton, NY, Branchburg, NJ and Colchester, CT. Thet were all brought up in Camillus, NY and attended West Genesee HS and played hockey, lacrosse and baseball. The 3 oldest boys attended Clarkson College and are all civil engineers and the youngest went to Lafayette College and is a financial analyst. We moved to SC in Sept of 2004 because of the CNY weather as I drove snowplow for 20 years in Camillus and we were sick of the snowy winters(we averaged 180" of snow a year). Tweety had been a paralegal since she graduated from business school. We loved SC and got started in geocaching there after reading an article published in the Sun News and fell in love with caching because of the interesting and historical sites places it brought us to. In March of 2007 we had found just about all the caches within 50-60 miles of Myrtle Beach and we have always wanted to travel so we decided to sell our house and buy an RV and travel the U.S. and cache as we went. We finally did get the house sold and picked up our RV last October and we were off. We went back to SC for awhile to get use to RV living and then set out in January of 2008. We went down through SC and GA, into AL, down into the FL panhandle, back up into AL, over into MS and LA, then back into MS and up into TN and then back up into the northeast for the summer to visit our sons. We have been to Camillus and visited our son and his family there and saw all our old friends. We then went to Binghamton NY, then on to Colchester, CT, and lastly to Branchburg, NJ and saw the rest of our sons and their families. We are presently back in CT and are leaving to go back to NY for another short stay before we head back on the road again around September 3rd. We will be traveling down to the Outer Banks of NC for a 2 week stay there and then we are on to Myrtle Beach for 4 months, to visit our friends there, before we set off on the road again to who knows where. If anyone is interested we do have our own blog that we do for our friends and family and the web site is www.2lostsoulsotheroad.blogspot.com. We have had such a great time caching these last 9 months and it is amazing the number of great caches we have found and the wonderful places we have visited and seen had it not been for caching. We also do a column for the Grand Strand Geocachers monthly newsletter on our travels around the U.S. Well time to say goodbye to all you OBW's and it has been so nice meeting the ones that we have met so far and hope to meet many more of you in the future.

Dori & Dick........Tweety & Coach........ftjak

WOW just got the post and it looks great! Thanks for doing such a great job.. So sorry to hear your news but don't worry we all have a few screws loose but you will have your back in place and we all will still be running around with ours loose.. LOL
As a honorary member I feel proud to be a part of this OBW's group.. But you can bet I feel the age anyway..
Hope all goes well and you will be Smiling Being Happy :) soon. Safe trip May God Bless!
Will update my caching blog a little later. Tell then keep Smiling Being Happy:)

eagleyes and the bird dog

Hi every one- we have been caching since 2001, but didn't join as proper members until 2002. We first started as team eagleyes and then hubby decided he wanted his own name- so became bird dog. We still log under the original name- and yes, I know it should be two words, but I eliminated 1 e because it is more creative.

We started geocaching when an article appeared in a local newspaper extolling the virtues of this new activity. Hubby had been an orienteering coach, and we both enjoy getting out of the house. He does anything that has to do with the GPS outdoors and I do all the computer work and thinking up the caches we put out. It works for us.

Our retirement started in spring of 2003, after both of us had high school teaching careers. We spend 7 months of the year at our cabin/home in Ely,MN which is on the edge of the Boundary Water/Quetico Wilderness Area. We don't do much caching when we are here as we are too busy doing other things, mostly volunteering, but have a large social circle too. Out biggest job is the work we do volunteering for the USFS- Kawishiwi Ranger Dist. We clean campsites, and clear portages and do general trail work. We spent 3 years GPSing all the campsites, trails and portages in the district.

The rest of the year is spent between our other Minnesota home and traveling. We cache nowadays when we are traveling throughout the world. Our most memorable caching was in Mexico- trying to find caches in the pyramid sites avoiding the critters, and the beautiful cache located in Premantura, Croatia looking out to the sea from the hill.

Caching has taken us to places we never knew existed. When we are traveling now, we skip the tourist literature and go right to the cache page. We have learned that cachers know the hidden jewels of their town that are not on the regular tourist brochure. We are not into the cache number game- could care less how many caches we or others have found. We are caching to learn historical, scientific and educational things as well as see the beauty of an area.

Look up our cache hides @ ZIP 55731 and 55045. If you are ever in the Ely, MN area in April through October, email us and come and say hi.

Here is our OBW cache: GC1BRFD or OBW-MINNESOTA CONNECTION

Sometimes Things don't work too well! OR I'm Confused by this thing!

Although I'm trying to make this thing more user friendly, there may be times you just can't post what you've written. When that occurs, send me a copy of your post in email (nashvillejoe(at)bellsouth(dot)net) and I'll post it for you. Our goal is to make this easy for everyone, not an exercise in total frustration. On the address I just listed, most of you already know how to make it a "real" address by using the period key where it says (dot) and the ampersand key where it says (at). I don't mean to insult you, but want to protect that address from being picked up by a bot!

Cache on and bring on your posts!!

Joe

How we got into caching! The Happy2Wanderers

I've never done a Blog in my life, so this may all be in vain.We were dragged into caching kicking and screaming, May, 2004.One very warm spring evening our oldest son and family pull into the drive and said, "Let's go caching"! We knew nothing of this, we were computer iliterate, never saw a GPS in our lives and only understood the word from what we read or saw on the telly."What do you mean walk in the woods and hunt for what? We camp, but, I was getting older and was in no mood to tackle salty sweat that drew bugs and mosquitoes. We declined.The following weekend we were camping with family and friends and after we were set up, our son puts a GPS in Hubbys hands and says follow it to the cache in VOLO Bogs near where we were camping. We did and it was my first encounter with poison ivy....ever! Also downed, rusted, barb wire fencing. We were eaten alive. We were hot, sweaty and I really knew I needed a shower.For most people that would have finished it. Not us! We bought a Little Blue Garmin. Now, I found myself trailing Hubby and he was having all the fun finding caches. After much discussion, I inherited the Little Blue Garmin and he bought himself a Garmin Rhino. From there we realized his Rhino had a radio and if we had two, We could keep track of each other in the woods, etc., plus Co-ords could be sent from one to the other. We recently sent both in for repair and ended up with two reconditioned ones. Mine was in extreme need of repair as it has taken a dip in a river along with me (Not planned) rubber worn off and bare metal exposed. Both rhinos had tape holding pieces on. I even used glue on the aerial because the rubber guard had cracked in half.Are we Cache fanatics?? You decide.

Happy2Wanderers

Aloha from Hawaii

We're happy to see that the Older but Wiser (?) blog is up & running! Thank you, abbysgrammy, for inviting us to join this select group! Here's a quick introduction to the team of Ahuimanu Hui. El (the wahine part of Ahuimanu Hui) is a retired high school math teacher, and Dick (the kane part) is retired from Dole Pineapple. We've both lived in Hawaii for over 40 years and met in 1974 at (international) folk dancing, which we continue to do (as long as it doesn't interfere with geocaching!).

El heard about geocaching in 2004 and was interested, so Dick bought her a Garmin Etrex for Christmas that year. We found our first cache in Portland, Oregon a couple of days after Christmas and have been hooked ever since! Regarding our caching name, "Hui" is Hawaiian for a club, group or association (for example, the OBW group could also be called the OBW Hui), and we live in the "Ahuimanu" area of Oahu.

We love geocaching for several reasons--the thrill of the hunt (of course it's always nice if we find what we're looking for!), the discovery of interesting places we might never have gone to without geocaching (we've done more hiking in the last 3-1/2 years than in all of our pre-geocaching years), the puzzles (El is a puzzle nut), the physical challenges (Dick especially likes this aspect, as long as his body holds out), and finally, for the great people we have met while geocaching. We're convinced that most geocachers are pretty special people...

We're uploading three images: one of both of us at our 2000th find last month (we don't have many pictures of the two of us together!), one of El at a cache above the estate featured in the TV series "Magnum PI" (GCTZ4D), and one of Dick climbing Mt. Olomana (GCHAYG) for his 70th birthday.

Looking forward to reading about other OBW members!

Aloha,

Ahuimanu Hui

Dick & El

message

Well, it's up and running and we hope it will be a place for everyone to "meet and greet" via the internet. Many of us will never meet in person but we can visit here. Tell us about yourselves and please include pictures when possible. There are still numerous details that Joe is working on to make it a LOT more user friendly. One step in that is to send each of you an "Invitation to join" email so you can add your posts directly instead of as comments. Please accept the invitation by clicking on the link in the email. I have set the Blog NOT to show your email, so your privacy is assured. I will be the one who will see them all for list management purposes. Please email me if you are having a terrible time getting in to add your posts. Otherwise, I won't know I have something to fix. This multi-person posting is different from what I have set up before and it is proving to have a semi-steep learning curve. As I work through it, I'll try to add instructions to a post to simplify if for everyone.

OBW? Beginnings

As we have been attending Geocaching events over the last couple of years, AbbysGrammy noticed that we seemed to migrate to certain groups of fellow cachers. That started the wheels turning, (the wheels of progress sometimes turn slowly! [:D]) and she saw that a need existed for there to be a grouping within our widening community to recognize this relationship. Out of this friendship has grown a very loose non-organization affectionately known as the OBW(?)'s. This Older But Wiser(?) group have many things in common, but the two main ones are the advanced age (over 60) and an active interest in Geocaching.

The OBW with the ? is to indicate that not ALL of us have reached the pinnacle of that status but have met the other criteria for membership! Which brings us to the matter of membership and group rules! The first rule is, there are no rules, other than the criteria for membership! I'm sure that somewhere in there is a Catch22 (If you don't know what that means, you probably aren't qualified for membership!), but we aren't sure where it is!

Well, there is a matter of another little item - the OBW(?) Goal Statement! Summarized, it is that we should enjoy life and each other's company as friends whenever we possibly can! Since we are already a geographically dispersed group, you may have to enlist others who may be geographically closer to you to meet this goal!

Cheers and PartyOn!