Good Friends

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
-- Elbert Hubbard

I consider JoGPS a good friend. He was very helpful to us when we started caching and has continued to be supportive as we decided to form our Jackson Area Geocachers group.
Today I received the sad news that he has decided to step down from his responsibilities with GC.com as a Volunteer Reviewer.
Though I don't know all the reasons behind his decision, I do respect it. I have a few ideas, but I'll keep them to myself.
I can't begin to name all of the things Joe has done for our hobby of geocaching, but besides his role as a Volunteer Reviewer, a few of his other contributions are serving as a Moderator on the GC.com forums, liason for geocachers with the Nashville Parks and Recreation department, formation of the second oldest geocaching organization in the world where he has served as officer many times, worked as a liason with the Tennessee State Parks and many other agencies to help make them friendly to geocachers.
He has hidden more caches and hosted more events than I care to count, and was instrumental in the formation of what has become the biggest geocaching event, the first Mega Event, GeoWoodstock. I was glad to be there with him when it was announced in Texas that GeoWoodstock would be the worlds first Mega Event
Joe says he is ready to be able to enjoy caching again and I'm glad for him on that, but will sure miss him as a Tennessee reviewer.

Good luck to you Joe//JoGPS//MaxCacher

VOLNUT PASSES THE 1K MILESTONE

It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.
Mike Huckabee

We celebrated volnut's 1K milestone event recently with a HUGE turnout of cachers in attendance. Seems like almost every table was full of cachers ready to tell a good story on my friend Greg.
I've known Greg a long time, worked with him at the hospital, cached with him several times, and am happy to call him a friend. Greg is a great guy and is always fun to be around, he is always one to make you laugh cause when he is around, something funny is just bound to happen.
I was happy to finally be able to celebrate this milestone, we have been trying to get a date together for months now. Dallas was able to get things together finally, we just decided to have the event even if volnut couldn't be there!!! But everyone came from near and far to show our support for another one of the Bluff Boys reaching this great milestone. The JAG Nation was out in full force and I know everyone had a great time.
We held the event at Snappy Tomato Pizza in south Jackson and things couldn't have been better. The location was great and the food was even better. I know this was the first of many more JAG events to be held here.
Of course volnut received the customary 1K coin as well as the Golden Ammo Can full of SWAG, but I left with a prize myself. The feeling of a great time with friends, really more like my family, my JAG family.