I haven’t had a missing TB show up again after a long time, but I found one that had been missing for two years. Love2Jeep1 was started out in the Black River Falls forest in July, 2006. After the initial drop there were no logs for the TB until I found it in Richland Center in July 2008. All I found were the tags and chain – I’m not sure if there ever was anything attached because there were no pictures of the bug. Its now out traveling as it was meant to do.

We had a school TB disappear from a cache down in Texas. One cacher was absolutely sure he had put it in, but somebody a day or two later said it was not there. Lotsa emails went out, but nobody knew where it was. So we eventually gave up on it.

Over a year later, a rookie cacher on their first find logged picking up our TB. They picked it up in a lonely Texas cache which hadn’t been found in over a year, which was pretty close to the one the TB was logged into.

Apparently it was just a case of logging a TB into the wrong cache, something which can happen easily. And a good lesson for us – take good notes when on a cache run involving lotsa trades, caches, and TB’s.

cYa, Grandma & Grandpa

We had one of our own jeep travel bugs disappear early this summer in California – supposedly from a muggled cache. A couple months later I got an e-mail from a cacher in New Zealand who said it turned up in a toy box. It’s now travleing again and on the North Island of New Zealand. People get introduced to geocaching in all kinds of ways!

Another one of our own jeep travel bugs disappeared for over six months and then was handed over to djwini, who is holding on to it while I try to get the one sent out with the copy tag fixed up with a new tag. That one is near Watertown. In a span of ten days last month I had three of our jeep bugs resurface after being missiing for three to six months!

I’ve heard a lot of fascinating bug stories, as many as about interesting caches. They lead precarious lives, so all the accounts of them getting on the road again after going MIA are encouraging.

One of our formerly missing ones has been circulating in New Zealand for a while now and another “not missing” one (TBN3KR) has had some good treatment in the hands of Hives, a Minnesota cacher who has been giving it a good tour of the western mountains during his travels and sending some photos as he goes: IMG_4010.JPG (1035.7 KB).

It’s good to see and share some of the success stories for these travelers.

I have a TB that was last seen in South Carolina in November ’07. Just got email stating that it was just picked up by a cacher visiting Aruba!!

Man, I really need to put a tag on myself so I can travel like these things do. I have several that are overseas and having a blast!

I just had one that had been missing for 2 years turn up again Robin’s Spin Geocoin. It was a most pleasant surprise, but my third “missing” geocoin to turn back up this year.