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quote: Sure I'd be willing to do that. I recently released a couple of psudo-travel bugs....It's based loosely on http://www.phototag.org....I've placed a disposable camera into a ziplock bag with the original box it came in (which is stamped and addressed back to me) and a sheet explaining the reason for this....basically I want 'em to travel from cache to cache, with no specific goal, and have the person who currently has it take a pic of themselves or something interesting or whatever, and make a log of which pic is their's on the back of the instruction sheet...then mail the camera and the sheet back to me. A friend of mine did that with Shutterbug and Buttershug. I've got one of them and am still waiting for the other one to make its way down from Northern California. The guy who has it now is the owner of a Travel Bug Hospice, designed to pick up and repair travel bugs. I think he's waiting for another camera to continue the journey. After it makes it down here, I'll probably be getting new cameras and sending them back to Seamus, the original owner. These were actual Travel bug tags attached to the disposable camera. Webfoot

quote:Originally posted by welch:Being able to turn itself into a boat , plane , rocket , whatever else is needed would be a BIG PLUS! It's beginning to look like a landslide right now. The travel bug tags arrived today, so I figure that by tomorrow evening the votes will be tallied and the decision will be made. Pictures will be posted of the winning entry and then the winner will be sent to New York. Webfoot

quote:Originally posted by Capn_Skully:I guess I am asking if you found one would you be willing to send me an email? Tell me where you found it and such as that? Thanks. Fair winds, Capn Skully I've found some where people just wanted an email telling them where their thing was later. It worked, but harder to follow, plus there's no way for anyone else to "Watch" the bug, since it has no official tag. Webfoot

I'm trying to make a decision on which vehicle would be coolest to enter in the First Annual Cannonball Run. I've decided to let the masses choose. I suppose I could do two, but I'm saving some for a hotel I'm setting up. The Magic School Bus or a 24 hour tow truck?

quote:Originally posted by welch: quote:Originally posted by mrplug:Turns out that not everyone uses the phrase "hotel". So you will find more caches if you use the word "bug" instead. Yea I will suggest the best way to find a "Hotel" would be to zoom and pan a map to find something nearby. Some caches just happen to be in good locations for drops/picks even if they placer never thought of that way. http://brillig.com/geocaching/http://img.Groundspeak.com/user/22008_1700.gif http://www.gpgeocaching.com/ I found 135 caches with the word bug in them. Using either bug, probably was a better play than my suggestion of hotel. Webfoot

quote:Originally posted by Dr. Fonz:webfoot, thanks, but how do i do a search? sorry and thanks alfonso Dr. Fonz, http://www.geocaching.com/hideseek/ Use the keyword area and type in hotel. Webfoot

quote:Originally posted by Dr. Fonz:We were in the UK last nov. and forgot our TB. Yikes, but, I noticed hotels near Glasgow and Heathrow, intended for intl travel. Does someone have a list of airport hotels here in the US? A neighbor is a pilot, he might be helpful to people (if united doesn't go chapter 7). thanks, Alfonso aka dr. fonz Do a search for Hotels. I found three or four using that method. I'm in the process of setting one up in the Inland Empire in Southern California. Webfoot

quote:Originally posted by WrongWayRandall:I usualy only get to Geocache on Friday and Saturday so it occured to me that I did not know how long would be too long to hold a TB. If I know that I am going to a more distant cache, is one week too long to hold a TB? Personaly, I would not really consider holding for a second week but would rather either return the TB to its previous cache or drop it off as far down the road as I could. Comments? WrongWayRandall I've held onto bugs for more than a month, but the key was communication with the owner, letting them know my intentions for their bug. The reason was I was getting ready for a camping trip and wanted to take them out of our area. Owners were agreeable and it worked for us.

quote:Originally posted by sherk:I will also remove the ^^^^^. I coudn't figure out how to create a line break without characters. Is there a way to do this? Try using (br) only use the bracket keys, instead of the parentheses, which are located above the comma and period. OR you can insert a horizontal rule which would be (HR) - once again using the brackets keys instead of the parentheses.

quote:Originally posted by trippy1976:I just ordered my first batch of 8 travel bugs. Congratulations. I've been ordering mine in bunches of 4. I just ordered numbers 9-12 yesterday. quote:I had some questions about the travel bugs based on the rate of loss that seems to occur. Can you /not/ include the dogtag with the serial number on a bug? For instance, could I just engrave the number on the item or include it on the goal tag? I ask because then in the event that the bug goes missing, you could maybe (not sure if this is possible) reset the bug and its tracks and re-use the number. Or even if you sent the bug out with the tag and it got lost, can you reset the bug and re-use the number on a new bug? I have a bug in my possession right now that doesn't have the tag attached. In reality, I couldn't think of a place where you could attache a tag on this one since it's a softball. http://www.geocaching.com/track/track_detail.asp?ID=5112 The owner wrote in Sharpie (Can you hear me Terrell Owens?), in four different places, the number of the bug. Not a chance that this particular bug is going to lose it's number. I'd say you could if you wanted, but the tag does make it stand out in a cache. Plus, you get a duplicate copy tag which you could use to start another bug, should your original bite the dust for some reason. Webfoot

quote:Originally posted by carivercpl:Since we live in corona, which some have said to be east oc...well we be allowed to play here or do i need to start a thread for IE??? ...and whats up with that pizza get together??? http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/mica/MiscDog.gif Perhaps we should start an Inland Empire Thread? Webfoot

quote:Originally posted by Brogan:Don't the Great Lake States actually share a common border? I was under the impression that the state borders extend out into the lake (thus actually touching at some point.) Same holds true for major rivers ie: the Mississippi the states land mass do not touch but their borders do. Lakes, especially ones as large as the Great Lakes pose some problems. It's not like Lake Tahoe on the California/Nevada border where there is a clear definition between them and no third state to mess with. I'm not sure if Michigan borders Pennsylvania or not because of Lake Erie, but I'd be willing to bet that it doesn't. Probably better to go state to state, ignoring the possible problems and disputes that the lakes would bring up. There is a way to get around the Great Lakes problem though. If the bug goes into Canada, you could skip many states all together. Ontario borders all four of the shared Great Lakes, so conceivably, a bug could start in New York, enter Ontario, Canada, and then exit in Minnesota and everything would be kosher because they border each other. Talk about getting a big jump on the competition.

quote:Originally posted by WoodsyFeller:What I want to know is it bad form to put a travel bug in a cache that you have found before.I picked up a travel bug a week ago 1/1/03 and starting to feel bad about not placing it yet.Ive been very busy this last week and not sure when Ill have some spare time to do more cache finds.Would just logging a note that I was just placing a bug be an appropriate.Just wanted some people oppinions on this. IT's done quite frequently. I've done it on numerous occasions to keep the bugs moving. Just log it as a note that you're dropping the bug off.

quote:Originally posted by armed to the teeth:About a year ago in Utah they had a cache called 'Bra-strap Park Cache' from the comments, and the pictures, it apears that when the guy went to hide the cache, some one had tied numerous bras together and strung them between the trees like clothes lines. I bet there must have been around 30 or 40 bras. It makes you wonder about the purpose of the bras. If they were tied together, perhaps someone was using them as a giant slingshot. Stranger things have been known to occur.

quote:Originally posted by ScurvyDog:I wanted to know "How others felt" Have you ever revisited a cache to pick up a TB, and do you feel it's Ok or Not? I feel it ok, but wouldn't want to upset other Cachers. Would it?? I'm considering setting up a T-bug Hotel in my area. I live very close to a major Interstate crossing within miles of an International Airport. I'm hoping that I can find a good spot close to this and set up a hotel. I've ordered four new bugs to start this out. I'm planning on putting in three of the bugs, plus a bug which I've just found. Back to your original question, I've gone back to caches to pick up bugs that were languishing. There was one that had been in the cache for over a month. It was a class project with two bugs racing each other. One got off to a good start and the other hadn't moved at all. I went up, grabbed it and placed it into a fairly new cache. Within days, it had been picked up and was crossing state lines. Sometimes if you don't give those bugs a nudge now and then, they'll just languish there.

quote:Well, the Travel Bug tags have a URL on them. The problem is that people just don't go to these URLs to see what to do with a Travel Bug. The key to our Sheet is that it gives them the information right then and there. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. I wish I'd had something like this for a couple of my early T-bugs. I just ordered four new ones and I'll utilize this.

quote:Originally posted by fmerrow:I was wondering how families or couples handle Travel Bugs they find. My son and I cache together most of the time. When we find a TB we both want to log it, but if we do that it creates redundant entries in the logs, but if we don't do that then one of us doesn't how the "find" on his web page. How are other folks handling this? Frank My son doesn't care for travel bugs and sees no use for them, so I never have to fight him for them. But we also only log in from one account too as he hasn't set up his own account. He'll probably create his own account when he gets a little older.

quote:Originally posted by Renyoldman:How would I go about getting my first TB on its way? I got so carried away about Travel bugs, that I didn't read your question thoroughly. Once you have your TB, activate it, find a cache, place the bug in that cache, then when you log your visit to the cache, and use the drop down menu at the bottom to relase your travel bug into that cache. Have fun with them.

You can do a lot of different things with a Travel Bug. You can have a bug with a specific theme such as this one: http://www.geocaching.com/track/track_detail.asp?ID=8798 I've gotten some pretty good pictures with that travel bug. Or, you could just have the but travel around going from cache to cache with out any preset destination or them for it whatsoever like this one. http://www.geocaching.com/track/track_detail.asp?ID=11061 The beauty of the Travel bugs is they can be just about anything that you want them to be. Let your imagination run wild with it.

quote: is that the map of your local caching are gets kinda crowded. This has spurred my interest in creating a personal travel bug. Your map is rather crowded, but if you were to visit one out of state cache, that might alleviate the problem. Most of our cache finds are in Southern California, but we do have one find in Utah. That one Utah find would most likely create a more open looking map. Webfoot

quote:MOB, Members Only travel Bugs. I personally don't like this idea, nor do I like the idea of members only (MO) caches. Right now, I have a travel bug in a MO cache. It wasn't a MO cache when I placed the bug in it, but now it is. Now, short of going back to the cache, (fairly easy to do since I've been there once, so therefore, I don't need to be a member to find it again), the only way I can monitor the bug is hope that the next person who finds it, logs it correctly. I had the cache on my watch list, but I don't know if the MO status prevents me from getting the logs via email to MO caches or not. Any answers to this? I lost one travel bug because someone didn't log it, but I pretty much know who took it based upon log entries on the cache. I can't do that with this one, since I can't view the cache page. So here I sit, not able to access a page to see where a bug of mine is, a bug that I already paid for, unless I pay some more money. That stinks imo. In short, this really isn't an answer to your question, but I don't think a MO T-Bug will solve anything. If a person stumbles upon a MO T-bug, they can still take it and then if they can't enter and log it due to its MO status, it's going to be lost permanently to the owner and the site. A loss for all of us. The whole thing sounds more and more elitist in nature and that probably galls me more than anything else.

quote:MOB, Members Only travel Bugs. I personally don't like this idea, nor do I like the idea of members only (MO) caches. Right now, I have a travel bug in a MO cache. It wasn't a MO cache when I placed the bug in it, but now it is. Now, short of going back to the cache, (fairly easy to do since I've been there once, so therefore, I don't need to be a member to find it again), the only way I can monitor the bug is hope that the next person who finds it, logs it correctly. I had the cache on my watch list, but I don't know if the MO status prevents me from getting the logs via email to MO caches or not. Any answers to this? I lost one travel bug because someone didn't log it, but I pretty much know who took it based upon log entries on the cache. I can't do that with this one, since I can't view the cache page. So here I sit, not able to access a page to see where a bug of mine is, a bug that I already paid for, unless I pay some more money. That stinks imo. In short, this really isn't an answer to your question, but I don't think a MO T-Bug will solve anything. If a person stumbles upon a MO T-bug, they can still take it and then if they can't enter and log it due to its MO status, it's going to be lost permanently to the owner and the site. A loss for all of us. The whole thing sounds more and more elitist in nature and that probably galls me more than anything else.