Bonsai Brat

I know for sure that there is a New Mexico Geocachers group on the Yahoo site. After searching all the Geocaching group sites in Yahoo, I may have been wrong. Can any geocachers fm Albuq or NM give me any info on this or other NM geocacher groups on other sites like AOL, or MSN?

Just an idea, I have floating around, and don't know if it would be feasable: How about somehow designing a TB tag with an address on it so the finder who didn't know what it was could just pop it into a mailbox, like some keychains have, the Geocache headquarters would charge the owner, the amount of postage, plus a finder's fee (say $5.00? just kidding) if he wanted it back. If he didn't want it back, put it in the TB cemetary or up for adoption.

Just got some great news. My TB "Sax" has been found. This was the bug that was missing from the Albuquerque Travelbug Sunport Cache in November. All that happened was the guy who retrieved it from the cache did not log it out. It is now 9080 miles away in a cache in Chennai, India! Real glad to find out that it was, indeed, not missing. I learned a hard lesson here, never give up hope on missing Travel Bugs. Thanks for letting me vent on this page

The thought is good, but I agree with the first replyer, and that is to remember that TBS ARE EXPENDABLE, believe me, I have lost a nice one. Well, I take that back, I don't know where it is....as long as you keep that in mind and can acknowledge the risk involved, I see no problem.

Recently heard the news about 3 TB'S and 2 coins coming up missing from an airport travelbug cache in Albuquerque. The odd thing about it was the logs. The cache was not being found by a few people for a week or so. (The cache was probably not there). Then when some people find it again, they report to the appropriate owners that their bugs aren't in the cache. You guessed it, one of the bugs was mine. I wrote a note to another owner whose bug was lost also in this cache. Since I am pretty new to the sport, I didn't know what to do, so I sought out advice. The fellow cacher advised me to do nothing, he mentioned that this sort of thing has happened to him before, and that one time he had a bug missing for eight months, and it showed up again. He told me a story about one cacher that would go to different sights and pick up TBs and just keep them, this cacher was later banned from the sport, and justifiably so. I know that this will probably not make you feel any better about your loss, (I don't feel better). But the email I got back from the other cacher gave me a sense of hope. It was (or is) a neat bug-California Raisin playing a saxophone. If you see it, please send me an e-mail. Thanks