Alex and I just got back from our first Mega Geocaching Event in Kendallville, Indiana this weekend. We met lots of great people at the Midwest GeoBash! A common practice in geocaching is to leave sig (or signature) items either in geocaches or with people that you meet at various events. Sig items can be anything, either something that you make, poker chips are popular, or simple business cards also work. Before the first event we went to, I had an idea to purchase some Moo Cards as our signature items. I used pictures from Flickr that I had posted of our geocaching expeditions. I think this has turned out to be one of the better ideas I ever had. For one, when it comes time to start trading sig items, since most people we encounter don't know what Moo Cards are, we can tell them. We usually let them go through the pictures and pick out one that they like, and this often leads to discussion about various geocaches or locations that we've been to, based on the pictures. Geocachers like to talk about their favorite geocaches so that's always a great icebreaker when you're meeting someone new. Another wonderful thing about the Moo Card is that it's memorable. While at GeoBash I had one man walk up to me and ask where I had got the cards and he explained that he found one in a geocache just south of where we were. We remembered that we actually visited that cache and left our sig card over a month ago! He had seen us trading them with some other people at that moment and realized that Alex and I were the couple that dropped it in the cache. I would really like to see Moo Cards catch on as sig items, I think they're fun and I'm happy to leave them in caches or give them out to geocachers at these events.
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