Pulp Fiction ... THE quote

Jules: The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.

got the quote from here

Some public designs

Hoping for a group buy on these. These are all fully vectored designs so they can be enlarged for blueprinting. If you re interested in getting the tag made or want to join in the group buy, contact me or check the Pathtag.com forum.

some personal pathtag designs

Been working on some designs for pathtags.
one for Tongeren, my town depicting Ambiorix. When walking in the town center you'll notice this effigy marked in a metal disc embedded in the pavement.
One for Limburg (belgian), my province. Its the official crest. And the quote is from the road signs when entering our province, its translates to "the Limburgers welcome you" whereas when entering the other provinces it will says "The province of blabla welcomes you".


And finally one for the helicopter base I am stationed at, Heli Wing.
the latin quote "semper labora" means "always working". Busy bees :-)

a pathtag is a gift, a coin is a loan

from a question on Pathtags forum

My son sold one of our Nativity pathtags on ebay. The person that bought the tag has this interesting question for me...
"I have bought this pathtag (nativity), but you are listed as the owner. How can I get it transferred to me?"
Now, I've tried a few times to put a response down in understandable terms but it just seems lacking. So I was wondering if anyone has suggestions on how best to describe pathtag ownership? Even that sounds like a strange question

This is how I would TRY to explain the difference between pathtags and geocoins:

The big difference between a coin and a tag is that a coin is a travelling item where the person who bought the coin stays owner whereas a tag is swag which can be refferenced to you.
Once the PT-owner drops the tag in a cache it is no longer his/hers. Its like dropping a carabiner, a marble a puppet, a McToy or a buisness card. The next person picking it up can keep it -or pass it on- but the tag creator no longer has physical ownership.
Its a bit like a buisness card, once you hand it out its gone and its no longer yours, the person who has it can do with it whatever they want but it can still be refferenced to you.

There is a important difference between ownership of a coin and ownership of a tag design.
Two coins of the same design will each have their independent tracking number, so one person can own one coin of that series.
When tags of a certain design are minted ALL will have THE SAME tracking number. If 200 are made all 200 will have the same tracking number.

Transferring ownership of a tag(design) would mean transferring ownership of that design and ALL the tags of that design that have been minted in the past and might be minted in the future.

The other option is to have at least 50 tags made of that design, possibly slightly modified or on a different plating (metal). This series would receive a different tracking number.

Most people buy a tag either to add to their collection or buy several of one design (made by someonelse) to either drop in caches or trade for others they wish to add to their collection.

When you give someone a tag its a gift. when you give someone a coin its a loan.

Wooden nickel update

All was revealed on the JeepsterMTJ's profile page.
There is a TB to log all the wooden nickels. The code on the back of the nickel is the TB reference the other part is the number of the nickel.

Good concept to track whatever you send out.

the mistery wooden nickel

Found a wooden nickel in Tête de chien today. No webadress, no email, no instructions, nothing to go on apart from the coordinates which I entered in the geocaching map and after zooming in I noticed a cache called "Signature Items"... interesting.
And the background of the cachepage looks like the logo on the nickel !
BINGO !

Now lets see where this takes us.

One initiation and a special encounter at a special cache

Today I drove 1.5hours to Bob, a colleague and friend who is a nature guide and wanted to see what geocaching is about. The cache of the day was the multi "Tête de chien", which is only a 20minute walk from his place. Noe, his son found all 3 caches we did together. Both Bob and Noe enjoyed the hunt.
The multi was well setup and in beautyfull scenery! Enjoyed it!

After a coffee I headed home but first had to visit a special cache with special coordinates "Geocache" at N50°00.000 E005°00.000. Quickly found it.
As I walked back to the car another car pulled up and the driver walks into the woods. We greet and it turns out to be fonduvork (also active on www.geocaching.be, we both walk to the cache and while he logs I show him my "not about the numbers" coin so he can discover it. "Oh, I also have some coins with me you can discover"... DOH... Crocodile Dundee moment : "that's not a knife! THIS is a knife"
He takes out a baggy with 11 HUGE coins, the one more rare then the next. Even one given to him by the Roth family (= the geocaching.com creators) when they attended an event fonduvork organised. Talk about rare!

Here comes the activity list for today:

	10/28/2008	Guinness70 found Geocache (Traditional Cache)	Namur	[visit log]
	10/28/2008	Guinness70 found That'll be nice (Traditional Cache)	Namur	[visit log]
	10/28/2008	Guinness70 found Notre-Dame du Maquis (Traditional Cache)	Namur	[visit log]
	10/28/2008	Guinness70 found Tête de Chien (Multi-cache)	Namur	[visit log]
	10/28/2008	Guinness70 posted a note for The Stamp Collector (Travel Bug Dog Tag)		[visit log]
	10/28/2008	Guinness70 discovered Astrolabe Geocoin (Astrolabe Geocoin)		[visit log]
	10/28/2008	Guinness70 discovered Official trackable LogBook Geocoin (Official trackable LogBook Geocoin)		[visit log]
	10/28/2008	Guinness70 posted a note for "Shibushi, Japan" Unite for Diabetes Travel Bug (Unite for Diabetes Travel Bug)		[visit log]
	10/28/2008	Guinness70 discovered Roths Anniversary Event Geocoin 2006 (Roths Anniversary Event Geocoin 2006)		[visit log]
	10/28/2008	Guinness70 discovered Fonduvorks Vision Geocoin (Geocaching Skill: Vision Geocoin)		[visit log]
	10/28/2008	Guinness70 discovered fonduvorks Stamina Geocoin (Geocaching Skill: Stamina Geocoin)		[visit log]
	10/28/2008	Guinness70 discovered Fonduvorks Protecting (Geocaching Skill: Protection Geocoin)		[visit log]
	10/28/2008	Guinness70 discovered Fonduvork Intelligence Geocoin (Geocaching Skill: Intelligence Geocoin)		[visit log]
	10/28/2008	Guinness70 discovered Lizardtoadz Geocoin (Lizardtoadz Geocoin)		[visit log]
	10/28/2008	Guinness70 discovered ToadZCode Geocoin (ToadZCode Geocoin)		[visit log]
	10/28/2008	Guinness70 discovered 500 Finds Geo-Achievement Geocoin (500 Finds Geo-Achievement Geocoin)		[visit log]
	10/28/2008	Guinness70 discovered 2007 Hong Kong Geocoin (2007 Hong Kong Geocoin)		[visit log]
	10/28/2008	Guinness70 retrieved Gwendolin (Travel Bug Dog Tag) from Geocache	Namur	[visit log]
	10/28/2008	Guinness70 retrieved De bijzondere schoen / the special shoe (Travel Bug Dog Tag) from That'll be nice	Namur	[visit log]

Thank you Tenessee Jed

Tenessee Jed posted in the ground speak forum about retiring from caching and he put up for adoption his EXTENSIVE collection of travelling coins and TBs, we're talking 900+ pieces. He was selling some to cover some medical bills but the TBs and most coins were up for grabs free.

I suggested he should try sell as many as possible even the ones travelling rather then giving them away free and that I was not putting myself on the list for adopting. Then a months or so laterr Jed emailed me and we start a little back and forth. He asked me if I would like to adopt some, so yes sure, I'll adopt some TBs. "Got any related to flying/sailing or gaming?" I asked, since I had some friends with those interests starting with geocaching so figured I would transfer the TBs to them.

Then this morning I get 5 adoption proposals, 2 coins and 3TBs, one being a Jeep TB and happily accepted all.
Now I have 5 items travelling in the USof A :-) how cool is that.

Thanks Tenessee Jed!

	10/28/2008	Guinness70 posted a note for AuntieNae Geocoin (AuntieNae Geocoin)		[visit log]
	10/28/2008	Guinness70 posted a note for Annuit Coeptis Geocoin (Geocoin Club May 2006 Geocoin)		[visit log]
	10/28/2008	Guinness70 posted a note for Satellite Series #3 Geocoin (Satellite Series Geocoin)		[visit log]
	10/28/2008	Guinness70 posted a note for Guinness70's Sign Language TB (Travel Bug Dog Tag)		[visit log]
	10/28/2008	Guinness70 posted a note for Guinness70's Yellow Jeep #04886 (Travel Bug Dog Tag)		[visit log]

Portas open door and 10 trads

Edith wanted to go to an open door of Portas, a company that refurbishes doors and staircases.

And afterwards we picked up some trads in the area. Beautyfull area!! HUGE park, pitty we didnt bring the dogs with us. Didnt bring anything apart from the GPSr really, no swag, no gloves no nothing.
10 finds... most we've ever done in one day, most we have done in a week actually.
Must return to that area and finish the Achel's Dozijn series, but this time with the dogs and plot a route so we can do it on foot. Its a waste driving thru such great scenery.

At one of the Achel's serie we met Lenny1975 who was finalising the serie, had him discover 2 of my coins and I discovered teh TB's he was going to drop in the series final. After a chat we both continued on our quests.

	10/26/2008	Guinness70 found Achels Dozijn : 'T Mulke (Traditional Cache)	Limburg	[visit log]
	10/26/2008	Guinness70 found Achels Dozijn : De Tomp (Traditional Cache)	Limburg	[visit log]
	10/26/2008	Guinness70 found Achels Dozijn : De Waag (Traditional Cache)	Limburg	[visit log]
	10/26/2008	Guinness70 found Achels Dozijn : Grafheuvels Hamont (Traditional Cache)	Limburg	[visit log]
	10/26/2008	Guinness70 found Achels Dozijn : Kapel O.L.V.I.D. Nood (Traditional Cache)	Limburg	[visit log]
	10/26/2008	Guinness70 found Achels Dozijn : Ruines Burgt Grevenbroek (Traditional Cache)	Limburg	[visit log]
	10/26/2008	Guinness70 found Achels Dozijn : Grafheuvels Achel (Traditional Cache)	Limburg	[visit log]
	10/26/2008	Guinness70 found Achels Dozijn : Het Planetenpad (Traditional Cache)	Limburg	[visit log]
	10/26/2008	Guinness70 found De Napoleonsmolen (Traditional Cache)	Limburg	[visit log]