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On this point I would say that you should only go back as far as the date you activated the travel bug. It would be pretty obvious that you didn't really have the thing with you if you had found certain caches a year before the bug was registered.

The mate was a mighty sailin' man, The skipper brave and sure...

Frustrating!

...and they have already been picked up by someone who says they will be going along on a distant vacation! Hooray!

Is this just something only I am seeing?

Sounds ok to me. If the bison tube is actually hidden inside the snake and it looks as real as you say, you might end up maintaining the hide after a log like: "We tossed a dead snake deeper into the woods, but DNF the cache!"

The more I think about this whole thread, the more I have come to believe that perhaps the person holding your travel bug has simply lost the thing in their car or computer room and doesn't want to admit that it's temporarily missing. At any rate you'd better leave him alone about it for a couple months, in my opinion.

Yes, I actually haven't told my 4 and 6 year olds that our two nicest looking cars are now on permanent vacation. Hopefully people will just do the right thing. We'll see!

I have a cache hidden 10 feet from the street, 10 feet from parking on flat level ground but I made it a 1.5 terrain rating because you have to step up over a railroad tie to a slightly elevated part of the yard and I knew that would be very difficult in a wheelchair, especially alone.

I have started a pair of cars as two new travel slug coin travelers to see which one can rack up the most miles! The first two pictures are links to the travelers! MORE PICTURES: MY OWN CACHEMOBILE:

All the picture thumbnails in my geocoin's picture gallery link back to the profile page rather than opening up larger images. http://www.geocaching.com/track/gallery.aspx?ID=1505950

Trading swag is trading swag and I agree with you completely there. Caches end up full of worthless crap. So far I feel like I've been part of the solution rather than part of the problem, so hopefully I'm doing my part. It frustrates me to no end to see someone leave a log like "Took the dollar coin, left a green plastic army man" when you know those army men can be had 50 for $1 at the dollar store. Or the cache where I left a $10 laser pointer and it was gone a week later without a logged visit (other than someone picking up a travel bug.) HOWEVER, Travel bugs and coins, despite their price, are not trade items and have no such ethics attached. Period.

whine whine. Thats what iI come to the forums for. Looking for some ideas and discussion, maybe some new opinions, maybe to learn from you much more seasoned geocachers and what I get is sarcasm and put downs, great! That really helps the situation move on to a solution. Thank-You! If you came to learn here, then learn. Travel bugs belong to other people. No matter what you call your cache, the only travel bugs that belong to you are ones you have registered. Change your listing to say..."I have 2 personal travel bugs and one personal geocoin chained to this hotel so there will always be something for you to discover when you come. Take or leave as many of the unchained travel bugs as you wish."

I think it's pretty funny that a perfect solution was offered...chain a few of your own personally owned discover-only travel bugs or coins in there so the can is never empty...and the OP just completely ignored that great suggestion to go on whining about his "problem."

If the guy has found one hundred and twenty new caches since he picked up your TB, I think he could have moved the thing along by now! Every time he has logged a find the web site has shown him his TB inventory to remind him. That's ridiculous and wrong! He TOTALLY should have left it somewhere else by now. Does your TB have some silly difficult goal of only being left in a different state it hasn't visited before, and then only on a Thursday?

There are GEOCOIN makers who will hear you out on your idea and, if they think their store can sell out a run of coins, they will lay down the upfront cash and make the trackable coins for you. Present one of them with your idea and maybe they'll just make it for you. Like a tiny trackable coin with a hole in the center. I think you just have to commit to finding people to buy a certain number of them. After this topic is moved to the correct place, others will chime in who have done this, I'm sure.

That's probably the only method without being willing to buy 1,000 or so.

Does anyone know when the first geocache too small to hold anything other than a logbook was placed? Which one was it? Please don't make this thread about your personal geocache size preference...I'm just curious when it first happened.

If you explain this to most reviewers, they would get approved. There is a local park near me with some caches only 300 or 400 feet apart because one is at the top of a 70 foot bluff and the other one is in the creek below.

If the cache owner actually takes the time to make mention of the park's hours of operation, then common sense would say there are possible repercussions for not adhering to those hours. Actually, just the fact that the park has posted hours of operation should be enough without it needing to be explicitly posted on the cache listing. The real problem is common sense isn't as common as it should be. I've cached after hours quite often. Some parks I do, some I don't, depending on the situation. I've NEVER had a problem. Does this mean I'm using my common sense? I guess so. I look at the hours as guidelines, not necessarily rules. Did you know you can get a ticket for going the speed limit? If everyone else around you is going 65 and you are hindering traffic by going 55, you can get a ticket.... Interesting... Incorrect. If the speed limit is 70 and you are doing 45, then yes, you can be ticketed as you may possibly be causing an unsafe condition. But if you are doing 55 in a 55 mph zone, you cannot be ticketed. Like I said, the real problem is common sense is not as common as it should be. That's incorrect. If you are hindering traffic and the normal flow, you can be ticketed, regardless of your speed. I call bullsnot on this. Got a link to prove this?

Yep, just hide a few of your own on your way in or out.

...... Yeah, I say it louder.

Include it in a hard coded frame or an iframe?

It's not even to 1600 posts yet.. Perhaps by the end of the day.. Please quit padding numbers Gah! That's what I get for trusting the integrity of someone with only 56 forum posts! :laughing: (many, for good measure) 57!

Or is it, as someone else has said, better that they have a place to play all day so they'll leave all our other threads alone?