TwoPups

update on my lost TBs. ONE has been found. ONE. And i'm very grateful to the "finder" who sent her on her way. If they were closer I'd bake them cookies. As for the others -- I contacted the folks from the Kansas City picnic event last year -- they don't know anything. Deny everything. Say they have no clue where anything is, but they don't have any of the missing TBs and nobody they know has anything at all. Of course. Not helpful at all. Not even apologetic about losing all those bugs. So a plea: don't take TBs to an event. buy trinkets, get tags for them, and start/log them just for the event. But don't take anyone else's TBs for a big event like that. A LOT of TBs disappeared at that KC event last year. I still think mean people suck.

Update on our FOUR missing TBs: Nothing. No replies, no movement, no sightings, nothing. The inconsiderate morally challenged perpetrators have ignored emails requesting information. Not even an anonymous note to say "I burned them !!! ahahahahahhaahh!" or "I fed them to my dog!". Nothing. Not a one of them has been seen since October at the latest... but most disappeared within a month of starting. To those people who ruin the fun for the rest of us and our children: shame on you. Your mothers should have raised you better than that. *sigh*. Perhaps after a few years we'll try geocaching again. But we've been so discouraged we haven't had the heart. And one thing is for sure: we will NEVER start another TB. If even one had survived... but all four. Jerks.

My family was really getting into geocaching back west. We were moving over 2000 miles, so we each got a travel bug to place the week before we moved. None have moved now since September, and at least one is missing. No one seems to know where any of them are at this point. After almost daily asking by my children of "Mom, where's my bug now?" for a month, they are resigned themselves to the thoughts that their beloved bugs are gone, whether stolen, broken, thrown out, or other. The really sad part is, it's really killed my family's interest in geocaching. The inconsiderate folks that take the trackable items without logging them, without putting them somewhere new, without getting in touch with the owners... they really kill the fun for everyone else. It's really a shame. Not to mention the lesson taught to the children that there are thieves out there. so in the meantime, i check once a month or so, but I think at this point we're not expecting to see them again.