- I thought of a question last night for those of you who have cached in D.C. Since 9/11 have any of you been approached by security personel after walking around with your GPS, PDA and other assorted high tech gear? A cacher could very easily be mistaken for someone doing preplanning for an attack. Someone joked at MOGA about Lava Opossums' caching vests and getting on a plane. I'm sure they would get a little extra attention in D.C. also. Gale ----- Original Message ----- From: "tnands" <sydstyr@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 11:41 PM Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Suggestions needed for DC trip > - > We just now returned to our hotel in Virginia after a Washington DC > tourist/recon mission tonight. > > We didn't stop to cache; no where to park. Most of the parking areas were > not only blocked off but near the White House was a policeman/armed > someone > about every 50 feet. The pedestrian area was closed. (We wondered if the > President/VP was coming/going -- since we could see a small procession > leaving the area behind us, and when we made the third loop the police > were > gone and the area was open to pedestrians.) > > > ANYWAY ..we just drove around DC to get a feel for things for when we do > do > the tourist thing next week. We had planned on going this weekend, but > it's > the Cherry Blossom Festival and we're thinking Manassas might be more our > style instead. > > I ran a pocket query for 500 caches within DC and it returned 70 caches. > And, yes, looks like mostly virtuals of places you might be visiting or > near > anyway. Although, some look more complicated than others. I was going to > make a simple copy and paste page of cache names, waypoints and what is > needed in order to log each one. Normally we work off the laptop, but > parking appears to be at a premium and once out of the car, we'll be out > for > a while. Although, we were talking about being real tourists and trying to > get a bus or trolley tour. > > And, it just so happens Kyd and I are going into Baltimore tomorrow (about > an hour and forty minutes from where we are in Virginia) to the > Aquarium/Inner Harbor Area and I was just starting to look at caches in > the > area. Do you know what area you're heading too? If so, I'll try and take > a > look around. > > Gettysburg is on my "wish list" -- maybe this weekend. (We're here until > next weekend) I'll report back on that too. Although .. Jamestown is > having the 400 year celebration. > > Hey -- you could be our new east-coast "RGS" lol. For a while every time > we'd head out of town, within a few months Rich was following along behind > us and in some cases signing logs not to far behind us. > > Nancy > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Bromley > Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 8:43 PM > To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [GeoStL] Suggestions needed for DC trip > > - > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > I am accompaning my son's 8th grade class on their field trip to the > northeast. We will a day in Washington DC, an evening in downtown > Baltimore > and a day in the Gettysburg area (not necessarily in that order). Are > their > any easy caches that anyone would recommend that could be a quick walkup? > I'm not sure I can break away to get any caches but if the opportunity > presents itself, I'd like to be able to do so. I know we will be in > Arlington, and on the Mall in DC along with the Vietnam wall and the WWII > memorial. We will be at the Gettysburg battlefield and in Hershey PA for > a > short time. Any suggestions would be welcome. > > > > Steve Bromley > bromley@xxxxxxx > > > > > > > > > > > **************************************** > For List Info or To make _ANY_ changes, including unsubscribing from this > list, click -----> //www.freelists.org/list/geocaching > Missouri Caches Scheduled to be Archived http://tinyurl.com/87cqw > > > > **************************************** > For List Info or To make _ANY_ changes, including unsubscribing from this > list, click -----> //www.freelists.org/list/geocaching > Missouri Caches Scheduled to be Archived http://tinyurl.com/87cqw > **************************************** For List Info or To make _ANY_ changes, including unsubscribing from this list, click -----> //www.freelists.org/list/geocaching Missouri Caches Scheduled to be Archived http://tinyurl.com/87cqw