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Geocache: Safety rail

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Another typical hiding location is the safety rails along the roads, streets, highways, parking-lots, etc. Mostly the container is held in place by magnet(s), just like this find. A magnetic container on the safety rail. Most of these are for the statistics, but I met one in Germany which was a really nice big container along the autobahn. This one I found in Detroit around the airport area, as I had nine hours between the two flights. The road with the safety rail. Let's talk about the safety rail for a minute. Did you think about why are they used? Who needs the safety? In most cases they protect cars from entering areas where it would be dangerous, in other cases they separate traffic going different direction to avoid cars trying to pass each others. Then there are some which is placed there to protect pedestrians from vehicles. What else? Any idea, add them in the comments. The container on my tablet. When I first started to make pictures of the geocaches I fo...

Geocache: Muggle and a zombie

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How many times do you come across this situation? And how many times do you choose to explain the muggle why are you there? And how many time do you feel like you just have a new geocachers on board? The geocache hiding with a magnet. Sunny day, waiting for the connection flight at Detroit for nine hours, got out of the airport to go and find a geocache or more. Yes you are right as many as I could. I was on foot not many options and I walked till I could barely step more, this one was the last I picked up that day. And the most exciting one as well. The geocache out on top of its hiding place From the previous geocache I had to walk for over twenty minutes and I kept on thinking how many other good spots I see along the way and how much easier to hide here in the USA, so much more place, and then most geocaches are so far apart, so I understand why the so many park and grabs, this is also one of them. Next to a busy road towards the airport I arrived, and so a c...

Geocache: Park and Grab

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Park and grab, at some point you want to find one of those, you want to get your longest streak up higher, or you just have a short time and still want to find one. But what do you call it when you go for  P&G on foot? Walk by and grab? Any other ideas how to call them? A p&g geocache. I was walking around the airport at Detroit, while I found this hide, to be honest it wasn't a P&G which you grab in a second, somehow the way if was placed it wasn't visible to me immediately, or maybe I was just burning under the sun and that slowed my brain down? Nice sized container. There were a few swappable items in the container, but I did not have anything with me so I just left all as it was. These containers disappear only when they replace that rail with a new one. It is at the furthest corner of the parking lot at the place I could not identify, and it did not look like often full, so most probably anyone parks at this corner will be searching for this geocach...

Geocache: Light post hide

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Light posts, US, what's next? Under the skirt? That is what my first guess was, and I was wrong. After an hour in a taxi to the airport then going through all steps to get to the airplane, flying for over 8 hours and finally in Detroit? Going through the border control, then picking up the checked in bag, and quickly dropping it off. What to do? Ok, I was fully prepared this time, offline map, walking distance geocaches saved and updated yesterday evening. So let's try to find a transportation to a location where with some walk I can pick a few geocaches. The geocache on the light post To be honest, maybe it is also called skirt, or maybe I could just call it a mini skirt. It was a quick find, which gave me some happiness and the motivation to go for the next one, only 1.8kms away, if I could go straight, and of course I could not, so over 2 kms to get to that. A closer picture of the geocache on my tablet. I got a tablet from my wife, and I decided to use that when...