Dorrie65

Wow! There is so much to learn! I can understand why some people do not really like having their trackers stuck in a hotel, Prison. It seems very unfair. I get that you want them to travel and that certain areas would be better suited for that, airportso etc. but to just keep collecting them isn't right. Sometimes, I don't understand people.

I'm new so please forgive me. Can you tell me what a TB Hotel is? How does it work? And why? Thank you

I guess there will always be selfish people in this world. Thank goodness for those of us that play by the rules. I'm going to work on mine before dropping them. Then I'll have to find just the right cache.

I'm afraid that they do go missing quite often ... I now buy cheapest ones I can find and release them with a travelling companion, but I have learned the hard way, DO NOT RELEASE ANYTHING PRETTY OR CUTE OR USEFUL ... it will disappear. Bear in mind, that in some (probably only a very few) that it could have been for genuine reasons that it was never dropped off again, people do have accidents, fall ill and even die sometimes, if no-one else in their family/circle of friends knows about Geocaching and these seemingly random trinkets, then they wouldn't know what to do with them. Some are probably genuinely lost by accident ... not too long after my daughter and I joined, she found a gorgeous geocoin lying in the grass near a cache. If I'd parked my van 8 or 9 inches further onto the grass it would never have been spotted. The coin wasn't logged into or recently out of the cache it was close to, but once she grabbed it and explained where she found it, both the owner and the person who'd misplaced it were very grateful to her. The person who'd dropped it is a well established, regular and experienced cacher and he was mortified that he'd been careless enough for this coin to have fallen out of his pocket at the side of the road.

I am really new to Geocaching and I really don't have much experience at all so I guess I am naive. I can't believe that people would just take the trackables and keep them! Do they really know what they are and just keep them? I know that at one of the cache there were little trinkets available for the taking, is it possible that people just mistake them? Yeah I already know that answer. So, I am so excited about this! I bought 2 of the trackables and I am so excited to drop them (I think that's the term). How do you decide where and when to drop them? Do you just pick a place? Does it have to be in YOUR cache? Thank you for your understanding and patience