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Just my two cents on the traveling caches being mentioned since I happen to be holding one. Ever since they've been temp disabled I've gotten numerous emails and also noticed a flurry of discussion on this topic (this forum for instance). Some of the CO's difficulty appears to be that it looks like some of the rules as listed on the cache page aren't being followed. Here's how I see it having not been around the caching world in 2003 when these caches started. It seems that times have changed (as in "grandfathered" etc.) and cacher's today are trying very hard to protect these caches not wanting to see them disappear. What has amazed me is the coming together of the community of cachers. People who've never seen one or come across one are writing in and communicating. Those who have found one or more are also concerned and writing. I guess you could say that these particular caches have evolved or morphed into something else altogether. They are no long "just" caches. They have in some way become special. Interesting. The one that's in our part of the world was brought back by a local cacher who drove a few hundred miles strictly to find and retrieve this traveling cache. That shows a certain dedication not shown to an "ordinary" cache. So the bottom line to me (without any undue pressure to the CO) is that whether adopted out or re-enabled and allowed to continue on it would be the greatest disappointment to see something that has generated so much interest in the game and brought the community together then be archived. Do I know what the "right" thing to do is? No. Just trying to stimulate some positive thoughts on the subject. I hope it all works out in the end. I know there are a lot of present and future cachers who would love to be lucky enough to come across one of these rare caches.

I would concur with your assessment. I never really thought about the theft thing because I don't think that way but it appears to be true with cachkinz. Next time I'll make 'em ugly. If there is a next time. An up date on mine. Oddly the first one to go missing turned up a couple of months later. The cached wrote to me that it had gotten into the bottom of his bag on a cache run and he recently found it. It's out again. But subsequently one I left in Hawaii on vacation has gone missing.

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I've geocaching for 15months and have moved along several geocoins and travel bugs and thought it would be interesting to put a few out myself. I recently purchased 8 of the newer cachkinz TB's. So far I have released 7 of the 8. 4 on a recent trip to Hawaii. I came home and found 1 I had released here is missing from the cache. No log and it's been over a month. Now 2 more from Hawaii appear to be missing. Several subsequent visitors to the cache's but no mention of the TB's. So it appears as though 3 of the 7 are already missing. That said I've found my initial excitement has turned to disappointment. Have other's run into the same thing? Also while in Hawaii I noticed that I visited numerous caches that listed several TB's in inventory only to get there and find none. Presumably also "missing". Apparently this is a problem? I noticed one poster say that you should make your TB ugly. Guess that was our mistake? Too bad, should have been fun.