Temporarily retired

I haven't posted an entry here in awhile. I have primarily been using the Facebook page Morongo Basin Geocaching Society. So give it a visit, if you are from our area. If Facebook ever gets REALLY stupid and begins charging for basic services, then I will take thus blog out if retirement. Thanks & L8R.

Joshua

TB Tollbooth, or river Styx to TB Graveyard

So, I went to Amboy Crater yesterday to find a travel bug that I have been dying to see. It was hiding in Amboy Rt 66 TB Tollbooth ... After getting there, I find that the TB I wanted to see, Nipa Filipino Hut TB, plus another aren't hiding there. They were cowering in fear for being taken hostage and never being heard from again. There were some 14 or so TBs listed for the cache, but only 2 were actually there. More like HOSTEL, see the movie, than a TB way station. I rescued both from there and then sent a sad, but hopeful email to each of the missing TB owners. I asked if they could mark their travelling friends as missing, for now. I do hope their friends pop back up someday. I went to the cache with travelling friends in hand, ready to swap, but the prospect of dropping them into the graveyard did not appeal to me. What is worse, is that all those TBs were either LOST on purpose, or because people either forgot to or didn't know how to properly log them from a Premium Member only cache. So who is doing it?

Surreal Landscape. Check it out.

I will find the extra TB I found there a new home Saturday near Desert Hot Springs, but the Hut will travel with me a little while. I started carving my own last night, so it will have a companion.

I'm not looking to start another "Where did my TB go?" or "Goodbye poor TB" conversation. There are too many already, sadly enough. If you find some great ones, mention them here. Don't include the findit code or a picture that shows the findit code. If a few good ones pop up here, I'll start a thread about that and we can just see awesome trackables.

~tufelhundin~
Let's cache!

new facebook page for this group & blog

Visit https://www.facebook.com/MBgeocachingsociety to follow this group and blog through Facebook. The more we get friends for this page, the easier it will be to share it to other geocaching friends in the area. Help get the word out. Like this page.

Getting the word out...

We need more people in the Morongo Basin getting involved in Geocaching!!!  What can we do to promote this sport? Comment below, and let's start generating some realistic ideas of some baby steps we can take to get some real action going here.

Geocaching Social & Earth Day in YV

We might as well just jump right into the fire and get going. I'm looking at either the 21st or 22nd of April, which is Earth Day weekend. I think we can have a great environmental tie-in. I also think that a trackable exposition and sharing would be awesome. Lots of trackable discovering for everyone's numbers. Please comment with any recommendations you may have for any activities... I have been talking to the Rib Co. in Yucca Valley. They have a room we can use, in the back and can customize a menu of a few key menu items with discounts on drinks and meals. Let me know. Plus, I'll bring a crap-ton of ammo cans for giveaway.