[GeoStL] Re: Suggestions needed for DC trip

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No, I have never had a problem with security.  Muggles
are a different story though.  


--- "Gale R. Nie" <showme69@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> -
> 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
> 
> 
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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.)
> >
> >
> > 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
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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.
> >
> >
> >
> > Steve Bromley
> > bromley@xxxxxxx
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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