We also did a series several years ago, up and down a major highway that hosts a classic car cruise every summer. We placed a dozen caches on the route and we found fellow geocachers visiting the cruise (good for the local economy!) and picking up the caches at the same time.

I also like creative cache containers. I’m TERRIBLE at finding nanos, so I don’t like placing them. But I’ve used some fun things, all the way from a traffic cone (I was really surprised at how long that one stayed in place!) to a paintball tube.

I like covering things (From mint tins to prescription bottles) in camouflage tape or even spray-painting them to disguise the container so it will blend into the background. I’ve also hollowed out a stone – some work went into that one, I’ll tell you – and placed a fake electrical box in a public gazebo. I’m not really sure how good an idea that was, but it was plastic and snapped open, and didn’t have any real electric components in it, but I sure had some interesting comments on it in the cache logs.

We have a travelbug hotel cache in our front yard, in one of the big ammo cans, and in one of my least favorite kinds of hides for traditional caches: under a huge picky pine tree.

But all is fair in love and geocaching, I say.

I really try to think about where people will have to park, and maybe even post the coordinates for the parking spot in the descriptive text.

To make sure the coordinates of the cache are correct, I usually go find my hiding place, get the coordinates, plant the cache. Leave and walk around a bit, turn my GPSr off and on again, and go back to re-check the coordinates to fine tune them. SOmetimes, I do this two and three times if there is a lot of tree cover, or inbetween tall buildings, etc. Then, I go away and come back the NEXT DAY and pretend I’m the guy trying to find the cache. How close can I get to it with the coordinates I have written down?…

Then, and only then do I list the cache as being “active”. It’s worth it. I’ve not yet had a problem with any of my caches.

I have an intresting situation, in that we have three homes in different states — one in Texas, one in New Mexico and one in OLD Mexico in Alamos, Sonora. I presently have caches in two of the locations, and will place some in Alamos this winter. I always have to explain to the reviewer that we frequent the locales often enough to care for the caches; and in the case of the ones in New Mexico — I befriended a geocacher who lives there who offered to assist me in repair/replacement should that become necessary. That seems to have appeased the reviewer, and all my caches have been approved..