Travel Bug Saved!!

[MuddyBottoms]

Instead of typing this all over again, I will juts copy and paste the text from our blog. It is about a forgotten travel bug I found a while ago, and is now back in circulation.

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Lost Travel Bug Found!!
Wednesday, February 24, 2010

In June of 09, when my caching career was only one month old I went on a caching trip up to the Minocqua WI area. On one of the finds I noticed a travel bug dog tag in the cache, nothing but the tag. I was a total newbie, but I knew that I should not be finding just a tag in a cache that supposedly has no inventory. As soon as we got back to the hotel I looked up the travel bug, and it was not found..so I thought, I must have typed in the number wrong or something.
So yesterday when cleaning out the truck and looking through some caching memorabilia we have I came across this tag again. Once again I went online to look it up, sure enough, I must have typed in the correct number, becuase this time I successfully found the travel bug page. This particular bug has not been logged since August of 2006, and is still supposedly in the possession of a WI cacher. This cacher had never visited the cache I found it in, but did find a cache a few miles away around the same time that it went missing. I am sure it was an honest mistake, I am hoping we can reverse it and fix it up again.

I have sent an e-mail to the T.B. owner, and the cacher with this bug in their inventory. I am hoping to get in contact with both people and resurrect this long lost bug.

Here is the travel bug page!
http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?guid=7525491b-7f83-4fe5-83be-374e953c8496

It sure would be nice to get it fixed up and back in circulation.

Check back to see how I end up with this situation, I hope it works out.

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Travel Bug Saved
Thursday, February 25, 2010

This morning we pulled the travel bug from the current owners inventory. Now that we are currently the owners of the travel bug, we fixed it up and gave it a new dollar bill to share its journey with. It feels good to save a travel bug that has been out of circulation for 3 1/2 years. We hear all of the stories about long lost bugs and coins, it is nice to resurrect one and keep it going.

Here is the bug page where you can read the log I posted for getting it back in circulation.

This Saturday it will make its re-debut at the 2010 WGA Winter Bonfire & Chili Feed . I am hoping someone will snatch it up and move it along, or at least discover it.

I plan on doing some major caching soon, so it will get some mileage no matter what!

Here is the bug all ready to go, I figured the tag would be safer by just taping it right to the bill. I hope it has another log journey, and I am considering myself the new owner!!! LOL, it will be going on my watch list for sure!!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_geV_D8jSx1w/S4a24kIDSdI/AAAAAAAAAIg/pd9ql7SD8ao/s1600-h/DSC05119.JPG

[gotta run]

Yay! 8)

But what’s the deal with that green comic sans font? 😕

On the Left Side of the Road...

[cheezehead]

and you not listed as the owner either.

[MuddyBottoms]

Can I do that?

[lone_gunman]

you could adopt it, just like a geocache

[MuddyBottoms]

I have yet to hear from the owner. I will look into it, I guess I really don’t care, just wanted to keep it rolling.

[Crow-T-Robot]

The owner has to adopt the bug over to you before it would become your TB. The adoption process can only be started by the cache/TB/coin owner…if they’re no longer active or don’t respond to your emails, you’re basically out of luck as far as becoming the new owner. You’ll just have to put it on your watchlist and track its progress from there.

Either way, it’s cool to see a bug come back from the dead after that much time 😀 I’ve found a few myself that hadn’t been logged in quite awhile or were showing in caches in many states away and it’s always a good feeling to get them back into circulation again.

Bruce

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