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OK, I haven’t left Racine yet, so they’ve never gone too far I’m learning, I’m learning….
So, what do you do if you pick one up with no goal tag and find out it really does have a goal you’re not able to fulfill? Drop it back at the same sight or go ahead and drop it at the next one you go to?
You don’t need to fulfil it’s goal, just move it in the right direction. A mile in the right direction beats any distance in the wrong direction.
I think most cachers are pleased when their TB’s move in any direction. It makes the goal all the more interesting to watch. We picked up the Packer Bag TB in Wisconsin in the spring, with a goal of getting to Arizona by winter, so the owners could go seek it out. We dropped the TB in Arkansas, and it headed to Texas, was picked up there, took a side trip to a beach in Aruba…somewhat the wrong direction to say the least. Made it back to Louisiana or Texas again before taking another side trip to Virginia. From there it finally made it to Arizona, and I think the owners were not too unhappy about the off route travels. So just do your best and watch them travel…
I am going have to agree with my friends Uncle_Fun and Whitnallgps. If TB’S are out there with goals leave them if you’r not going to move it towards their goals. Lost Boyscout dropped some with specific and someone just happened to bring them back to this aera and said “Well I helped it get miles”
I guess we will have to take the good with the bad.
People move them around so that can record TB,s in numbers,otherwise they may not move many.Goals are tough to follow.how about this for travel bugs, Trade up trade even or dont trade, we try to get bugs going the right way, but if we can we always trade bugs for bugs even in non “hotel” caches, this weekend we went to the UP and dropped off all our bugs spreading them around. hoping that they are all not snatched up by the same person trying to get the numbers. just a thought. we have been switching off our collection of about 15 to 17 bugs all winter, all over the US. it burns us when someone follows our tracks the day after we log our drops and pick them all up leaving no travel bugs in the area to attract new cachers to a place they might otherwise go to. TB’s do attract cachers to a area. thats my 2 cents worth
I’ve really gotten disenfranchised with TBs People (hoarders) steal them so they can have one more beanie baby or piece of junk in their house.
Someone recently stole our geocoin
http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=96000&hl=and replaced it with a photocopy! Yes! Read that again! What kind of loser do you have to be to keep someone’s traveler? Last I checked, geocoins weren’t legal tender.
Mr. WISearcher
“TB’s do attract cachers to a area.” all depends on the cache. i have a bug that was stuck out in oregon all winter in a cache that no one ever goes to. it finally got picked up and moved to a puzzle cache that sounds as hard as baffled and bewildered.
and if i find a bug with a goal, and no tag, i make one to help the next finder know that it had one. sometimes the tags get separated from the bug. not mine, they are all wooden plaques
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