So, what is your most favorite thing you've found in a geocache?

Mine is kind of an odd one, because I found it in one of our own geocaches. When Jumpin Jack set out the ones along Hwy 80 and me made our FTF sweep, we found a hand made keychain with some really nice beads, and FTF spelled out. Mandie took the one we found that day, and Jumpic Jack was nice enough to place an extra in our Mining for a Cache, cache. Ever since I've kept it laying here at my computer where I can see it.

Still have a dollar bill we found in Knott Homer's Park cache, it was a FTF prize of sorts. Was suppose to be a wheresgeorge.com bill, but it didn't travel very far (about three miles). I've kept it put up ever since.

Some other things I've found, and liked, are some coins bluegillfisherman left behind. One is a wooden nickel, and the other is a metallic coin with his cache name on each. I had taken them out of the "Wishin I Was Fishin" cache with intentions on replacing them, but it got muggled before I could.

We're flattered. I came up with the idea for those keychains and Kandi made them (though I'm sure it's been done before).

I'm not much for trading swag unless the kids are along, but I do have a blue ribbon hanging over my desk that I picked up somewhere I guess some of my favorite things have been trackables that I have helped move along like the Baby Loggerhead geocoin. I also got a kick out of a TB called Scooby's Doo II, which is pretty much what it sounds like, and Dolly the Sheep, a small vibrating sheep which had been to New Zeland and visited some of the places where Lord of the Rings was filmed. Sadly, Dolly was in Wishin' I Was Fishin' when it was muggled but I have hopes that she might resurface someday.

I had to think on this one a while. I'm like Jim, we've found several items we love. OLD MONEY tops the list. Someone left a 1904 Indian head penny in one of our favorite Smoky Mt. Caches (mr. winners garden of love). And all those Sacagawea dollars we've been finding are pretty cool (thanks to who ever left those )

But I love my JJC keychain Jim got him one out of a recent cache, we keep watch on everyones keys, to see if we notice another cacher LOL...

And also, my very first FTF, was Braff and Mandarue's now archived 'Grand View' of a drive in (which should be revived for the event, IMHO, maybe a 'grand' place for a CITO event ....)I recieved a FTF ribbon, I still keep it in my glove box in my car, maybe I'll scrapbook it someday!

Another favorite that comes to mind that we recieved out of Spongebob's Mail Pouch barn. It didn't have a TB tag, BUT was a traveler of sorts, it was a key chain made by a troop of cub scouts in PA, they made so many of the key chains, and were placed in a cache in PA. They were hand beaded with numbers in the design (with glow in the dark beads I might add which was pretty darn cool). You had to email the troop leader with the keychains number, and where/ what cache you dropped it off in the troops kept up with the keychains travel that way. I have no ideal where mine is now, the cache was archived ...

Thanks for taking me back to think on my geo-caching adventures!

Kim...

Spitwinkle keychains and Fergus' Chain mail comes to mind as two MD all time fav's. From the days gone by. I enjoy finding buttons, rubber ducks and those stress balls. But we rarely take stuff, more often leave things to fill up caches for kids.

So far the coolest thing I got from a cache is a 100 channel police scanner. I dumped out what swag I had with me into the cache for that one. It was broken, but I bypassed a small damagd area on the circut board and it works fine. It picks up police/fire/ambulance, and aircraft frequiences as well.

I'm kinda new to caching with just 107 caches to my name but so far my favorite item was in Echolocation and was a flint arrowhead. When I was really young my parents told me about how if I were to look around near Holston Lake hard enough it'd be possible to find an arrowhead. I never looked really, because I was young and had to be with a parent the whole time, and they wouldn't have the patience for me really ... but I've always wanted an arrowhead since then. So.. wish granted. It only took me 20 years. No FTFs under my belt yet though

When I was a kid in the late fifties through the late sixties my dad always took us to Holston Lake for a week during miners vacation. My brothers and I used to rent a row boat and row across the lake to look for arrowheads on some of the points when the water was down some. I have found a cigar box full in a day back in those days. The last time I searched was about ten years ago and I only found one. I would love to go back some time and really spend a day searching and see what I could come up with.

I have also found several in this area by looking under rock shelters and sifting through the soil there. I have found arrow heads, pottery shards and a bear claw with a hole drilled through it. Some of my friends found three skulls that when dated were approx. 600 years old. Those stayed on display at the Breaks for several years. Treasures of the native American kind are here for the looking but it takes some effort to discover them.

Happy hunting in the future.

My favorite swag changes from time to time. I will go through spells when I take and leave nothing and then I tend to take the same thing for a while. The one thing that I always like to find though is foreign money. I have always saved it for my youngest son (who is now 21) since he was little and he still gets a kick out of looking through it. Its not worth anything but I enjoy seeing him look through stack.

I guess my all time favorite and a little story goes with it. When he was very little he always said he would like to have two brazillion dollars. Well low and behold about a month before Christmas I found an actual Brazilian dollar in a cache. I stuck it in his Christmas card with a note saying that we were half way there. He knew exactly what I was talking about and a big grin came across his face, priceless.

That's amazing! Thanks for sharing. I actually got out recently with a metal detector and managed to find a Boy Scout neckerchief slide circa 1950:



I'll have to keep my eyes peeled while out on the trails more. I'm starting to think I should have studied Archaeology. This type stuff is really exciting to me.

That goes beyond cool!

Those are some great stories. Man I would love to find some arrowheads. So would my daughter RabJab. She is really into Indian artifacts and just rocks in general. I love the old Boy Scout item too. I've got a metal detector that I have had for a few years but I don't know where to look legally for some good artifacts. The only places I have been is a couple of playgrounds and parks. Found over $25 in new money and a couple of odd knick knacks but nothing great. As far as the swag I usually don't trade unless the girls are with me then I let them if they want something. The only things I trade for on my own have been some of the signature items of cachers I have met. I like the pins, poker chips and keychains, etc.