Team DuBanger

I have seen many cache pages, travel bug pages ,and profile pages with colour and graphics. Try as I might, I can not figure out how to do that. I would like to add maps and pictures etc. to the main pages for the caches we hide but I don't know how to do it. Can I get some help from those who know how, please. Thanks Dee, Team DuBanger

You have four bugs that you ordered and are on their way to your house? Everyone stop what you are doing and give a round of applause to "Globecachers". Dude, you need help. Welcome to the world of geocaching newbie. You can't tell me I know nothing about bugs because I only have three out there so far. I am selective so I don't waste my money on bugs that disappear. I may only have been playing this game for a short peroid of time but, man, you have no business telling me I know nothing. Find and move more than one travel bug, find a few more caches and then we can compare notes.

In reading the wonderful responses to my posts, it seems that the main point of this whole thing is still being misunderstood. All I am saying is that if part of the game is to have a travel bug move and it doesn't , that is ok. If part of the game is letting your bug go and it never makes it's goal, than that is ok too. What I find should not be ok is people who collect travel bugs, don't move them along, and they end up getting lost. HOW CAN YOU ARGUE WITH THAT CONCEPT? I AM NOT UPSET THAT A BUG OF MINE DID NOT MOVE FOR 1 MONTH! I have three bugs and they have only been out for 3 months. I don't care about my own bugs.I was dissapointed that the people who had one of mine also had 40 others at the time and it appeared to me that they weren't helping the bugs along or getting them closer to their journey. THAT IS NOT PART OF THE GAME! I was dissapointed for the owners of the bugs that they had and had not moved for 6 months or more. They shouldn't have picked some of them up if they couldn't move them along. It would seem that some people want to use the forums as a place to beraid the opinions of other cachers that pose an IDEA they don't like. There are ways to say "I dissagree" and ways to say "I have been doing this longer than you, I am a caching god, so shut up and stop using the forum for your meger ideas" I repeat again, maybe putting a limit on the number of TB's you have is not the right answer. But, if you have a bad memory, are not responsible, or can't help a particular bug acheive it's goal, DON"T PICK IT UP! Plain and simple. Just be nice and move one along if you can. If not, leave it for someone who will.

Looks like the gang from PA really sticks together. This has been made into a big deal by some of my fellow cachers as they seem to assume since I have written long posts that I am taking this thing way too seriously and am very uptight about the whole thing. I again, am just stating my opinion on something I find bothers me about the sport. If it is ok with my American friends, who seem to think that I am way off base with this whole keeping too many TB's thing, I will make a note to myself never to cache in PA. Thanks to Aim High, who actually read the post properly and responded with tact. That is the way cachers should organize themselves if they are going to carry a lot of TB's. If you can't stay organized, DON"T CARRY A LOT OF TRAVEL BUGS! You can't handle it. TB's should never be forgotten by seasoned cachers. It is not hard concept. Just as a personal note to my "Warrior" friend. If the forums are just a place for people like you to insult others through a keyboard rather than discuss matters as adults, than maybe the forums are not the right place for YOU. Opinions should never spark some of the comments that appear on the posts above. It would appear that purhaps some of YOU are taking this way to seriously.

What is that supposed to mean? The list that is linked is to OUR travel bug page and you are telling people to avoid anything on that list? Who do you think you are " Leprechauns"? Why the hostility? My post is simply a rant about travel bugs that stay too long with seasoned cachers or regular cachers who keep too many at once. This is a problem if it leads to bugs being lost. Yes, it is just a game, and yes it is all for fun. But when someone, not just us, spends money on something that people are careless and selfish about it ruins the GAME for EVERYONE. I don't care if you have over 1400 finds to your name. You have just been in this longer than us. I take offence to what you have written. You have only released 3 bugs since you started so obviuosly they are not part of the game to you. We enjoy that aspect of the game and want to release more of them. But we are not so wrapped up in this game as to purposely offend other cachers. The whole point to my rant is that we need to be polite and be courteous. One of the guidelines should be the length of time we keep bugs and how many we have to keep the GAME fair to all cachers. From the 60 year old guy who gets his weekly exersize strolling around looking for caches to the 5 year old girlwho thinks her parents are taking her on a tresure hunt.

When do you have one too many travel bugs in your posession? I think if you have more than 5, you need to let go of some. There are several cachers out there who hord TB's and then forget about them, loose them, or just forget to log them when they drop them off due to the volume of TB's they have. This rant started after one of our bugs remained with a certain party for well over a month. In looking into it more closley I discovered that this person had over 40 travel bugs in their posession at that time. Some they had since last year. This is not fair nor should it be allowed. I think there should be a max number of TB's you can carry at one time. There needs to be a way that moderators can check how many you have and ask you nicely to let some of them go. I know you get a freindly reminder that the bug needs to be dropped off after 14 days but all of us have gotten busy before and not let one go on time. But almost 2 months is rediculous! What I am upset about is that people keep a large number of them "on hand" and it takes the fun out of finding one for people who cache in the same area as the horders. It is also discouraging to new cachers who send out their first TB and it ends up in the hands of a horder. It can be very annoying to seasoned cachers as well. TB's are special items that must be passed along. There is no excuse for a team with over 250 finds to have more than 40 TB's at one time. Am I totally crazy or off base? Am I the only one who thinks this is not fair? Please let me know what you think. Dee of Team DuBanger