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Looks like they got it sorted out. Thank you Groundspeak!!!

Looks like they got it sorted out. Thank you Groundspeak!!!

You might also post your experience here: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=230590 Maybe if there are enough reports of it they'll fix it. The visible date should determine the order of the TB activity, not some server assigned event tag.

Will do. Thanks for the link.

I've got something similar going on. After I added a thread on this elsewhere I took another look. The dates haven't changed but they are no longer listed in chronological order and several Discovery logs from different people here in San Diego area (and a couple in Utah) now point to the same cache in Kansas which is totally bogus and an impossibility. The data is corrupt I guess? I added a vehicle TB sticker to my Jeep this summer and drove it from the San Diego area to Kansas and back (yea, stopped at Mingo). I dipped it along the way ("dropped" it in when I logged a cache find and then grabbed it back right away) to record the progress. That worked fine and showed the route I took for the trip. As mentioned above, a few people have also discovered it in the meantime. But when I looked at it yesterday I noticed that everything is screwed up. The map looks like I zig-zagged back and forth between California and Kansas. And the resulting mileage is crazy also. Not sure when this actually happened because I don't look at it every day. TB2K16T

I added a vehicle TB sticker to my Jeep this summer and drove it from the San Diego area to Kansas and back. I dipped it along the way ("dropped" it in when I logged a cache find and then grabbed it back right away) to record the progress. That worked fine and showed the route I took for the trip. Also a few people have also discovered it in the meantime. But when I looked at it yesterday I noticed that everything is screwed up. Some dates seem to have have changed. The map looks like I zig-zagged back and forth between California and Kansas. And the mileage is crazy also. Not sure when this actually happened because I don't look at it every day. TB2K16T Anyone else seen this sort of thing happen suddenly? ------------- Just took another look. I guess the dates haven't changed but they are no longer listed in chronological order and several from different people now point to the same cache which is totally bogus and an impossibility. The data is corrupt I guess?

The movie was on last night. That whole scene of him using the compass (we use a GPS), following where it lead, recognizing the spot as described (we read the cache notes), looking around, moving rocks around, spotting that special rock (we call them hints), looking for muggles, and enjoying the moment was exactly what it's like to search for and find a cache. I thought it was a great visual description of what it is like.

Not sure if this is what you had in mind but it is movie themed and it is a cache. GC1CKYT At the Movies

Find a little dicast model of your car for when that day comes. Send it off for real.

I emailed these folks and asked how they've been able to log their milage. They basically drop the bug in when they log a cache and then go to the bug page and retrieve it. That logs the milage. Have a look at the logs for their bug and you can see how they did it. They don't drop it in every cache but often enough to track their travels. http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=561717

I just finished a two week geocaching roadtrip (will do it differently for sure next time but the best teacher is experience) and several of the caches I found were historical markers. Usually they were located within a few feet of the physical marker (GC16BX8) but sometimes they were actually hidden as part of the marker (GC19VV6). In either case I stopped to read the plaque. So I got the history lesson and the smiley. If you want it to be recognized as a historical marker cache make that part of the cache name. There is almost always easy parking nearby -- people will visit your cache.

Check out http://www.debbiedoesdecals.com/. She can probably make you a copy in whatever color you want. You just give her the tracking number from the one you bought. She can also make additional copies for you.

I would do it this way: If you found a cache, log your own TB and drop it in the cache. At next step take your own TB again as "grap it". If you will do this on each cache you will get the milage you are traveling. Understood? I checked the options and apparently as the owner all you can do is "Discover" it which doesn't seem to add any milage, or write a note. That's a bummer. I just drove is nearly 3000 miles from San Diego to Mingo Kansas (GC30) and back geocaching all the way.

You should be able to contact the owner by looking at the Travel Bug inventory list (right column) on the cache page where you think you picked it up. Click the name of the TB (a hot link) and that will take you to the info page on that TB. Owner info, etc., should all be there. Just tell them what happened. I'm sure they'll give you the tracking number you need to log the pickup and drop off to keep the tracking current. Hope this helps. OOps, just saw BlueDeuce's note above about problem contacting owner. Well, in a perfect world it would have worked.

Any suggestions on how to log the mileage yourself? Is that even an option? I just drove from San Diego to Mingo and back geocaching the whole trip. The car has the TB stickers and was spotted once (but they haven't reported where yet).

I wanted to suggest that if the TB has a specific goal that you should make that goal clear and even go so far as to attach it to the bug. I picked up a TB at a rest stop (west bound I-70) on the Kansas-Colorado stateline. There was no indication of where it wanted to go. When I logged it that night in Denver I found that it wanted to remain in Kansas and visit the four corners of the state while visiting as many Kansas caches as possible. Well, I was west bound and it wasn't until I was deep in the Rockie mountains that I found a cache site big enough for a TB. I'm sure it will be a long time before it finds its way back to Kansas. If there had been one of those small luggage tags (sold where they make copies of keys) on it that told me what it wanted I would never had picked it up. Just a thought.

I was looking for a traditional cache and couldn't find it. Turned out the published coordinates were off. Someone watching nearby pointed out what they thought I was looking for. That turned out to be the second to last waypoint of a nearby multi. So I was able to skip three waypoints and find the muli quickly. I've been ridden with guilt about it but feel so much better now that I've told someone. Thank you. Then there was this one time...

Thanks for the link. I was out geocachng most of day and missed it.

I log them all. Not so much to run up the numbers but to know when an area has been covered. Then I can turn off my finds on the map and see those that remain. That alone is a great tool but it is only as good as the data it has to work with -- you need to log the finds to get an accurate picture. I might ignore DNF but that's a different subject.

I tend to "discover" any that I see just to keep the tracking alive so the owner will have an update on the TB status. And if I find that there should have been a TB in there but wasn't I log that as well (at least in the GC log). Sometimes I even contact the owner to let them know so they can consider removing it from the inventory. Most of my caching is urban and TB's don't always fit in micros so I leave many behind since I don't know what is ahead. I have been known to revisit an old find just to move a geocoin or TB along that has sat there for a month. I feel like I'm doing my part. It's also possible that some folks don't realized what they are and don't carry swag to swap so they just sign the log an move on?

Out in the field I saw that as a plus. You do however, have to be logged in before you can post a cache or trackable find.

Agreed. I've used it for everything but logging a find. So much quicker than the WWW interface on a cell phone. Well done. It would be keen if the numeric values for Difficulty, Terrain, and Size were also listed on the initial info page for a cache. I noticed that Difficulty and Terrian or on the search by coordinates/zip page.

Seeing that as well this morning.

I would assume so. I have the vcast access.

I was thinking along those lines. Thanks.