Thankfully the majority of cachers accept the fact that this is just a hobby and appreciate caches whether they are lame or quality caches. I have traveled the world and have done caches that have taken me to places I would never have looked for on my own. Thank you for the time you put into your series. Pika and I will be doing your series of caches once things settle down. Sent from my tin can and string. On Dec 26, 2010, at 10:15 PM, muther andsun <mutherandsun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I usually keep my mouth shut or should I say I keep my fingers still. > However, I feel guilty after reading a lot of recent emails on the freelist. > I am polluting and diluting the game. So I've decided to come clean. I feel > so stupid for spending so much time writing cache pages and money on cache > containers, waterproof paper, dumb swag, and gas just to increase the number > of smileys on other people's profiles. What a moron I am! Let me apologize > for my part in ruining this game. > > Please let me explain. I own a handful of caches. Most are "lame." Most > take you to really boring places like corn fields and cow pastures. Most of > these are placed just to hand out smileys for numbers hounds. I would never > expect anyone to look for another reason behind the series of caches besides > the location. I wouldn't dream of cachers enjoying themselves while on these > numbers runs. It really disappoints me when cachers thank me for the good > time they had while hunting these stupid micros. For example, I usually get > over a hundreds of logs similar to this one each day: > > http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=8682a66d-b537-4969-b94f-5d41d86ef5c0 > > Whew, I feel better now that I have confessed. I promise to do better on > future hides. > -Tracy