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Bennycams 6 years, 9 months ago.
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Got a question for the more experienced cachers/bug owners out there, which is probably almost everyone here! 🙂
I have a TB I made of a train with a trackable Lego brick that I decided shortly after creating it last year that it was too cute to send out into the wild. Probably didn’t help that I gave it eyes! And while I have no problems creating proxies for my geocoins, I kind of feel like it would be cheating to do so for this one, so it’s basically been a personal mileage bug since it’s been activated.
Since I’m not planning on giving it up, I thought it might be nice to use it officially as my personal mileage bug, visiting every cache I’ve found. So, here’s my question – if I go back an edit all the logs of those caches that it has not already been marked as visiting, would it screw up the actual mileage I’ve traveled since I began geocaching? Am I better off creating a fresh TB that doesn’t already have mileage on it?
Answered my own query. I took note of the train’s mileage, then had it visit the first cache I ever found. Theoretically, it should not have added the mileage between it & the last cache it visited. But it did.
So, an existing TB cannot be backtracked for overall caching mileage.
This actually solves what to do with the Signal charm/nano coin I got in the latest grab bag. It’s too small to send on its own or to attach to something where it would be recognized as a TB tag, so the options are – create a proxy to send out, use the code for something completely different, or make it a personal mileage bug. And, what better to document the miles traveled since I started geocaching with than the official geocaching mascot?
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