TrinketTrailer

There have got to be work-arounds! What if you got a free website, like (and I'm making this up) www.34j85.com and put THAT number (as an address) on your travel bug, then hope that people will quickly open that website and post a note about finding and moving the bug? I bet that would work! And if you're willing to pay a $10 or so annual fee you can probably set up several bug pages on one site: like the site is named something simple and the page within the site is the TB number. Like: "www.trinkettrailersbugs/34j85" I wouldn't mind logging into a site to post a note that I found or moved the bug -- I mean you won't be able to show where it is on Geocaching.com, but that might not matter!

There have got to be work-arounds! What if you got a free website, like (and I'm making this up) www.34j85.com and put THAT number (as an address) on your travel bug, then hope that people will quickly open that website and post a note about finding and moving the bug? I bet that would work! And if you're willing to pay a $10 or so annual fee you can probably set up several bug pages on one site: like the site is named something simple and the page within the site is the TB number. Like: "www.trinkettrailersbugs/34j85" I wouldn't mind logging into a site to post a note that I found or moved the bug -- I mean you won't be able to show where it is on Geocaching.com, but that might not matter!

That is great, but I can't believe they let their kids play with it for THREE YEARS!!!! Those silly irresponsible Keelys. A month maybe -- even all summer to show off to friends. But three years?!?! You're so lucky it resurfaced! I am amazed they didn't apologize profusely!!

I just found this thread because I placed my first geocoin and it has also gone missing. I think it's pretty obvious that they are meant to travel. I was very new to geocaching the first time I ever found one and at first I was excited at finding such a cool trinket -- but then VERY quickly realized that it read right on it that it was a trackable coin. All it said was "Track this coin at geocaching.com" and that was all I needed to read. Geocachers should educate themselves on the etiquette of geocaching before they head out. The one I left had a tag on it that read "DONT KEEP - TRACK @GEOCACHING.COM / WANTS TO TRAVEL WORLD & END UP IN SCOTLAND" and I figured once it's there if anyone who finds it there and wants to keep it, they can. I knew there was a good chance it could be muggled, but it was the only thing missing from the cache, so it was likely a geocacher. Hopefully they will figure it out and get it moving again. Some of your posts have given me hope. And to the people who say they thought they could keep any geocoins they've found, you are incorrect. If you still have them PLEASE log them online and see what the intention of the coin was -- most likely the person who left it wants to see how far it can travel, and you screwed it up Thank you for getting it/them moving again; you'll make someone's day!! And pass the word along to any other ignorant geocachers.

I love that you can check a bunch of boxes on the "All Geocaches" page list and then click "Download Waypoints". However, waypoints don't do much for me. I find that the only files I'm interested in are the GPX files. Isn't there an easier way to get lots of GPX files at once from that page and/or from the "Map Results" page?