I started a thread a while back with some fun GPS stuff in it.
You know what? To hell with it. I can find some of these without a GPS. I’ll check in tomorrow with the results.
There is one guy I know of who has a couple of hundred finds without using a GPS. He uses a compass and topo maps.
And for those of y’all that want to give something similar a try without the GPS, may I suggest letterboxing?
Disclaimer: I don’t actually know anything about it; I just found out about it because there’s a letterbox at one of the caches I was checking out the other day. But it looks a whole lot like a variation on the same theme.
bookbuster, yes, that’s what Travel Bugs are. If you find one, make sure to log it on the TB page as well as the cache page; otherwise it just “goes missing”. (I’ve seen two do that now - it’s rather discouraging when your TBs just “disappear”).
-DogMom, wishing I could go caching this weekend. Alas, duty calls.
Set out for three today, and found one. It was a really cool-looking handmade metal box. I left a 1 peso coin, Boiling MAD and Balance of Power (books). Took a Def Leppard cassette (which I listened to on the way home), a nifty sheet of puffy California-themed stickers, and snapped a picture of myself with the camera in the box.
Really fun. I might give the two that eluded me another shot later today. If you want to look me up on the site, I’m “hardrocker”.
I’d like to go tomorrow. But that probably won’t happen because my GF is hosting my daughter-in-law’s baby shower and my son and I will be stuck ohhing and ahhing over a of bunch girlie stuff. (she’s having a girl, their first)
Say, maybe we’ll need to make a beer run. Yeah, that’s it! 
I have never thought of leaving a disposable camera in there so you can see pictures of the people that visit your cache! What a great idea! Is this a common practice?
Gotta ask. How did you do it? Compass and topo maps like Oat1957’s friend?
Gotta know, what’s the etiquette and rules of geocaching? What exactly do you do? Find it and take something/leave something? How do you start your own?
Huh, turns out there is a cache within walking distance of my house! don’t have a GPS, but I could probably find it.
You can swap items but they should be of equal or greater value to the items you take. You don’t have to swap anything if you don’t want. I rarely do. When I sign the log I add this to it. TNLNSL
Took Nothing Left Nothing Signed Log
Placing a cache guidelines
Another stupid geocaching anecdote:
I find them with my parents a lot, and usually we don’t take or leave anything from the caches, but sometimes we leave a little trinket from my parents’ store. They tell me they found a cache (without my away-at-college self) recently that included one of these toys that we’d left in another cache somewhere. That’s just cool. 
Does anybody enjoy the ones in not-so-scenic locations? We did one that was in the strip of trees between a highway and the rear parking lot/delivery area of a shopping center. What a beautiful place!
I found one behind a Safeway hidden on a fence. I also found one on a guardrail next to a bank.
A lot of micro’s are hidden in high traffic areas. The fun part is trying to find them w/o drawing attention to yourself. Which is pretty hard to do when you keep looking at this thing in your hand and mumbling curse words.
bookbuster: Actually, I found it with Mapquest and a lot of context clues. This is the cache . There’s a picture of the box there, and I noted a lot of rocks. It’s called “the under pass”, so I just drove out to the point indicated by Mapquest. Had to hike out to the underpass proper (it was a road I didn’t want to drive down), found a bunch of rocks and the box was semi-hidden under one.
The canoe is loaded on the trailer. Tomorrow I’m off to 5457603 for a bit of exploring.
Make that 037125 5457603