[GeoStL] Re: Suggestions needed for DC trip

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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



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From: "tnands" <sydstyr@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 11:41 PM
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Suggestions needed for DC trip


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> 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.)
>
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> 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
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> [mailto:geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Bromley
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 8:43 PM
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> 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.
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>
> Steve Bromley
> bromley@xxxxxxx
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