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Two new members introducing ourselves
By: Keith Gould Date: August 5, 2013, 6:27 pm
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Hi
I am Keith Gould and my wife Kathy (kathy5beads) have just
joined.
We live in Cheltenham and have been caching for a couple of
months. We are both registered disabled and we use our off-road
mobility scooters to get about. We are both still active but
have difficulties walking anything more than about fifty yards.
I retired officially last September and we try to get away in
our Motorhome, with our Golden Retriever, for at least a couple
of days every month when we can (depending on health and
financies).
We enjoy hunting for caches but we are restricted in where we
can go on our scooters. Footpaths and tracks are no problem
neither are most fields, but we are stymied when we come across
stiles and kissing gates (trying to get a 120kg scooter over a
stile is a bit of a problem. Even more so when there are two of
them to carry).
We would possibly be interested in any events that you think
would be suitable for us.
Keith & Kathy
Keith Gould & Kathy5beads
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Re: Two new members introducing ourselves
By: walktall Date: August 5, 2013, 6:46 pm
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Welcome to CacheWalker :D
That was a good introduction about yourselves. I have a lighter
problem than yourselves, as my 36kg greyhound doesn't do stiles
:o
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Re: Two new members introducing ourselves
By: Griff Grof Date: August 6, 2013, 3:21 am
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Welcome to CacheWalker ;D
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Re: Two new members introducing ourselves
By: SangueG Date: August 6, 2013, 5:29 pm
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Hi Keith and Kathy, welcome to CacheWalker :)
I remember the Top Gear episode where they were testing off-road
mobility scooters against ones they had made themselves, that
was quite a fun episode. But come to think about it, I might be
wrong but I don't remember seeing them come across any stiles or
kissing gates whilst they did their race through the
countryside. It would of been interesting to see how they dealt
with those :D
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Re: Two new members introducing ourselves
By: Yorkshire Yellow Date: August 7, 2013, 7:14 am
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Afternoon Keith & Kathy.
Welcome to the hobby/obsession!
You might find
HTML http://www.handicaching.com/
HTML http://www.handicaching.com/
of some use.
I know that a cacher by the name of Cache on Wheels (Heather?)
uses a mobility scooter to cache. If you can track her down she
may be able to give you some helpful pointers and share her
experiences with you. Her GC.com profile (through which you can
contact her) is at
HTML http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=67f56150-3ee3-4a9c-acaa-a7aad35a2420.
I note you're based in Cheltenham. Mzeb0nga has a variety of
what should be some easy to access August events in both
Cheltenham & Gloucester, which he's bookmarked at
HTML http://www.geocaching.com/bookmarks/view.aspx?guid=63fc3ba8-f4cd-4c00-81bf-cf0fd3aef208.
There are also some CITO (cache in, trash out) events coming up
soon in the area, such as the ones in Hesters Way Park and also
at a nearby nature reserve (
HTML http://coord.inf
o/GC4H3V2 &
HTML http://coord.inf
o/GC4H3V2).
There are also semi-regular meets in the area, usually in pubs,
such as this one -
HTML http://coord.inf
o/GC4HK0K.
I hope the above has been of some use/interest to you.
Happy caching!
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Re: Two new members introducing ourselves
By: Keith Gould Date: August 7, 2013, 8:40 am
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Many thanks for the replies and information.
Hopefully when Kathy is feeling a bit better we will be able to
follow up on some of them.
Regards
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