People who keep your travel bugs!

[PCFrog]

@~Hylife~ wrote:

so yeah, I just released my FIRST TB, the first person to grab it took it 30 mi. in the WRONG direction, and then placed it in what’s referred to as a “TB Prison”..

I suppose it’s my luck..I just expected him to make it to one normal cache before encountering this type of situation.. 🙄

😀 There is no such thing as a wrong direction. Any direction is better than none.

[Lostby7]

@~Hylife~ wrote:

…..and then placed it in what’s referred to as a “TB Prison”..

Usually what is referred as a “Travel Bug Prison” is nothing more than a cache which simply asks someone to trade bugs rather than just grabbing them and moving them. The Term was made up by people with nothing better to do than to place irritating bookmarks on cache pages. 🙄

Your bug is not trapped there by any stretch of the imagination….

[LDove]

Pathtags are a somewhat new item, similar to a coin. You have it minted – pretty reasonably priced, at pathtags.com with a design you submit. You then put them in caches or trade online and people keep them rather than moving them like a coin or a TB. They have their own tracking numbers and you can see where they are picked up on a map. We just got ours and love them, we got over 30 in the first month we were trading! Ours turned out better than the picture on the website – ours is on page 44 of the tag gallery. This way, the whole purpose is for someone to keep it! 🙂

Travel bug prisons, I agree that is a rather crummy term, but folks do put restrictions on taking stuff in them. I usually try to only take one even if I don’t have one to trade. The reason is I don’t think that the owner of any of those travel bugs put it on their mission for the TB to sit in a cache until someone else had one to trade. Those are “rules” imposed by the cache owner – which in my opinion – are only causing TB’s to sit forever and not move. 🙄 I could care less if somebody takes all the TB’s out of my TB cache, it keeps them going for the owners!! Just my opinion of course… 😀

[Hylife]

@lonesumdove wrote:

Pathtags are a somewhat new item, similar to a coin. You have it minted – pretty reasonably priced, at pathtags.com with a design you submit. You then put them in caches or trade online and people keep them rather than moving them like a coin or a TB. They have their own tracking numbers and you can see where they are picked up on a map. We just got ours and love them, we got over 30 in the first month we were trading! Ours turned out better than the picture on the website – ours is on page 44 of the tag gallery. This way, the whole purpose is for someone to keep it! 🙂

Thanks, I’ve been hearing about them quite often..

Travel bug prisons, I agree that is a rather crummy term, but folks do put restrictions on taking stuff in them. I usually try to only take one even if I don’t have one to trade. The reason is I don’t think that the owner of any of those travel bugs put it on their mission for the TB to sit in a cache until someone else had one to trade. Those are “rules” imposed by the cache owner – which in my opinion – are only causing TB’s to sit forever and not move. 🙄 I could care less if somebody takes all the TB’s out of my TB cache, it keeps them going for the owners!! Just my opinion of course… 😀

I think some people are over-the-top at jumping on other people’s backs regarding these types of caches, too, but I guess I just wanted him to go a little further..purely selfish, I do suppose..

And yeah, PCFrog, I guess you’re right..at least they didn’t take him to California!! 🙄

[Mathman]

@PCFrog wrote:

😀 There is no such thing as a wrong direction. Any direction is better than none.

I will say that is TRUE!

SirCumference and I put out coins to race each other to Maine where my sister lives. His second ride takes him from WI to New Jersey! My first ride goes 10 miles and then my arch-nemesis 🙂 Rick Blick picks it up to “help” me by taking it to Nevada! We still laugh about that. By the Way, it is now somewhere in NY or PA. SirCumference also had his coin picked up in Connecticut and taken by a cacher to put in his “Hotel California.” located in SC. It sat for 2 or 3 months or more because there were 20 coins in the hotel and you could only take one if you left one! It was at someone’s business I believe so it was monitored quite well.

I too like to leave a coin if I have one when I take a coin but not always. I don’t have a problem with someone taking a coin(TB) or several as long as they keep them moving. The TB or coin is as much for the owner to watch and enjoy as well as the cacher who gets a new icon. I think the TB “Hideaway” in Madison is a very successful TB hotel and has a lot of TB’s and coins traveling through it. This is a good use of that TB hotel. Another one is near Hudson WI by the MN border. Let’s try to keep the fun in TB’s and coins. 8)

[Toecutter]

heh….I stopped by a cache on my way to work this afternoon to check on a TB I’d dropped last April…it hadn’t moved…or so I thought. It’s gone. So I came home tonight to look at the cache’s webpage and there were 3 other TB’s that were supposed to be in there….none of those were in there either. I think I’m going to stop investing in TB’s and geocoins. I’ve got a couple Great Lakes Pop-Up Club coins I bought to send out for travelling, and now I don’t feel like giving $20 away to some “collector” for his own private coin collection.

Later
Phil

[labrat_wr]

I don’t know, maybe I have mixed feelings on the “take one / leave one” idea. I have several coins and TBs that I just want to have cachers keep moving and I don’t put limitations on them that require the cacher to leave one if they grab the bug or coin, but…. I also tend to initially drop these items in some of my own caches as an attractant to draw some activity to the caches. Being in an area that doesn’t have a dense population of caches, there seems to be a need to give cachers reasons to venture into the area, especially after the FTF has been posted. So if the bug or coin is taken out, the draw is gone (not always the case but I think you can follow my thought). So all in all, I prefer that cachers practice T1/L1 but I don’t throw a fit if they don’t. I do tend to have replacements to add. What I do agree with as stated in other posts is that I don’t appreciate those that grab coins and bugs and fail to place them back out in the field in a reasonable amount of time. Sometimes the 14 day notice passes on those I grab too but if things don’t work out to find a worthy cache to drop them, they will be held longer until one is found. I don’t feel good about dropping a bug or coin in a cache that is poorly maintained or in a high muggle area where it could grow legs.

Disclaimer : Always answering to a higher power.

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