Missing Travel Bugs

[Buy_The_TieParticipant]

My Brother-In-Law (Penny Pincher) came across a cache page dedicated to missing travel bugs. I can’t decide myself if this is a good idea or not. Just putting it out there for the heck of it: Travel Bug Graveyard Cache
Maybe we should set up a graveyard (cache) for all bugs belonging to WGA members that bite the dust.

[This message has been edited by Buy_The_Tie (edited 05-21-2003).]

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[jthorsonParticipant]

I buried one Monday (after learning about the concept at the campout) in a similar cache in England.

[RayParticipant]

Actually, I think we have a greater need for bug hotels. But, having our own bug cemetery isn’t a bad idea. While we are at it why not a bug first aid station of our own as well: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=47378

I do want to add one caveat. After a few weeks of no activity, we went to check on one of our bugs and found it was MIA at the last logged cache. A few months later it showed up in another cache. One can be hasty in proclaiming a bug dead

[RangerBoyParticipant]

Yeah what’s the deal with that? I’ve gone to a few cache’s to get a bug only to find them gone and yet the page proclaims them to still be there. Do people take them and not understand they are different from the usual trinkets you swap?

[RayParticipant]

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Originally posted by RangerBoy:
Yeah what’s the deal with that? I’ve gone to a few cache’s to get a bug only to find them gone and yet the page proclaims them to still be there. Do people take them and not understand they are different from the usual trinkets you swap?

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Unfortunately that is the case. We just visited and retrieved [virtual] a lost bug from Grandad Bluff. We have several others that seem to be moving, often rather slowly. Sometimes you may need to just be patient.

[arfferParticipant]

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Originally posted by RangerBoy:
Do people take them and not understand they are different from the usual trinkets you swap?

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This is exactly the case… some folks just don’t read, some don’t comprehend. Considering that TB owners often pick nice object to attach their tags to, this makes the TB often the nicest item in a cache. So those that don’t understand make their trade for the TB and just keep it.

TBs have a high mortality rate, and a low rate of success in accomplishing their goals from what I’ve seen. Mine often go missing for months. I’ve got one that’s been stuck on a mountain in the Alps for over a year. I’ve had hitchhikers dissapear on me also.

These items just seem to be too complicated for a large number of folk to understand how to handle them.

[Buy_The_TieParticipant]

I must confess….The first travel bug I came across, I removed the tag from the actual item and just took the tag. After some prompting from my wife, I went back and got the whole thing. A close call, but I didn’t know at first what to do with it either. I think that a laminated tag attached to the bug explaining it in very clear verbage would help keep the mortality rate down.

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