- I'd like to echo Ben's sentiments. While we may be many miles away, it sure is nice to have contact on a daily basis with others sharing an activity we enjoy, and get the added bonus of revisiting home through all your exploits. I sent my daughters their first GPSr up for Christmas, and have sent them some of the e-mails on upcoming events. I can't think of a better group for them to become associated with! Look for them to be logging soon. Ya'll have a Happy and Prosperous New Year. Rudy & Deb Johnston --- Ben Outlaw <benoutlaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Happy New Year Greetings from a SLAGA member in > Rosenberg, TX (35 miles southwest of Houston) > (formerly Webster Groves, MO resident for 32 years). > There is at least one other SLAGA member down here, > "Txsyank" (another former St. Louis area resident. > My daughter ("nyisutter" of SLAGA) got me started in > the sport and I am using it to occupy some of my > time after retiring from Baker Petrolite in May. > Many of my cache finds are in the St. Louis area > while visiting "nyisutter" and family. I am also > trying to catch up with "RogBarn" in Benchmark > finds, maybe that will be easier now that he has a > GPS and will finding and logging caches. I'm sure > that his trail thru the snow to "larsony" (his first > cache find) made it easier for those that visited it > soon after him ("nuisutter" nows the time to find > this one before "Rogbarns" tracks melt away). > > Here is the link to our Houston Area Geocachers Web > Page: http://www.houstoncachers.org/index.html Be > patient it is now under major reconstruction to be > the Texas Gulf Coast Geocachers Web Page. (It is > changing every day like the SLAGA page but I think > it can't compare to the SLAGA Web Page - Thanks to > konopapw for his design work that gave it a great > start and to the new web page team of Island Dave, > Glenn, dj&r (John), Barramus, and BruceS. I'm sure I > have left out some but many thanks to all of the new > team for such a great page with all kinds of links, > news, stats, ect. > > Thanks to all the sponsors of the caches I have > visited in the St. Charles and St. Louis area. I > won't forget that cold windy November 30 day, when > I walked to the top of "Expensive Real Estate" by > BruceS. With the wind chill up there, it was > difficult to enter all the answers to the > verification questions in my Palm Pilot with gloved > hands! One question was not enough for Bruce he had > to ask for four. Meanwhile "nyisutter" who refused > to walk to the top again was waiting at the bottom > wondering if i was ever going to come back down. > Actually I was trying to locate her "Tanks Bruce" > cache to the distant north. > > HAPPY NEW YEAR and may all your 2003 finds be > fun and exciting. > > motexoutlaw > Ben & Pat Outlaw > Rosenberg, TX > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com **************************************************************************** Our WebPage! Http://WWW.GeoStL.com Mail List Info. //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=geocaching The SLAGA E-store is closed for image repairs...... ****************************************************************************