trekmiss

Got logs from ranger_jurchik today, as well. All deleted. I wish there was a way to report this.

Username adremi has now discovered several of mine and that I follow. I've deleted the logs on mine. These are old TBs, so I guess he must be using a number generator or doing a lot of guessing. Seems incredibly boring to me! I live in Bolivia, where caching really just won't work with the third world culture. I miss it, but I cannot imagine how armchair logging TBs comes even close to the thrill of finding a TB in a cache! PS: Is there a way to report this user for abusing or misusing the site?

Tried that, but they said they saw it on the internet, but wouldn't tell me where. I've searched the tracking number, name, etc. I haven't found the source, yet, but I was surprised at how many FB groups exist just for the sake of logging TBs they have never seen. Not sure I understand the point? Oh well... I guess I'll have to keep deleting logs till I get tired of it.

My TB Amachamee has been missing for 6 years, and suddenly, today, it gets a discovered log saying it was seen on the net. What? I've tried google to see if I could find where it may have been seen. Nothing. Curious where it is and who has it.

My travel bug, Mom's TB - A Reason to Hope, reached its destination today. I thought I'd share it with this group. My mother passed away from Alzheimer's Disease in April 2008. This TB was in honor. In a few days I'll be putting a new goal on the TB to get it back home here in Springfield, MO, where it will be laid to rest at Mom's grave. Thanks to everyone who helped her TB along on its journey.

I've carried TBs in both checked and carry on bags even on international flights with no problems.

5442.89 Miles, Buenos Aires Monumental Cache GCABE7

OWE $115

I probably wouldn't trade for a bottle since I couldn't be 100% sure it wasn't tampered before or after a cacher left it. I have seen those sealed plastic water baggies, that would be okay for me. Very neat! How do those work? do they have like a juice box straw, or you just rip the corner off and hope for the best or what? I've placed bags similar ro these in caches before. These are emergency supply water bags and are usually packaged in heat-sealed bags that are puncture resistant and will not rupture if the contents totally freeze. The water is usually sterile as well. You can find these by looking for emergency water on the net. Yeah, I'm with you on all of that, and did some searches, but I dont see, with the water bags shown, the method for getting the water out 'neatly'. Would be great if it had a drink box straw, or a corner that was made to be removed without spilling it everywhere... Water, milk and drinkable yogurt are commonly found in bags like this here in Bolivia. Mostly people just bite off the corner and suck the contents out. It's not unusual to see someone walking down the street with one of these bags hanging out of their mouth. No hands needed! Here are a couple photos of Bolivian children drinking their milk out of small bags like these...

For me, I want to see and read about my tb's journey to its goal while traveling with different cachers. Even if you move a tb only 1 mile (or less), it becomes part of that tb's journey. However, if you think you can help a tb get closer to its goal, but it will take you longer than a couple weeks, just contact the tb owner and ask them if they'd like for you to do that.

I voted. Great job on the video. Hope you win!

I have a similar memorial tb. TB1CEYP My mother is in the end stage of Alzheimer's Disease. I attached a bracelet from a Memory Walk and a flipflop keychain because she loved to travel. It's mission is to visit Vermont, a state my mother always wanted to go to, but never made it there. It immediately started out in the wrong direction. So be prepared for something like that. But, it's still traveling, and that is the point.

Thanks for all the replies and suggestions. I'm going to see about getting new contacts put in it. I'm currently in Bolivia, so I think that is my best option here. Thanks again.

A friend gave me a Garmin Etrex Legend that they obviously hadn't used in a very long time. They had left some alkaline batteries in it. Unfortunately, one of those batteries corroded the contacts. I went to put in new batteries, and when I did, the contacts had actually fallen apart and were stuck to the battery. Is there anyway to put new battery contacts in this unit? It works well when plugged into the cigarette lighter in the car, but I cannot use it unplugged right now. Any ideas on what I can do?

The DB coins were sent (somewhat) international. I haven't even seen one pass through a single cache here in Iowa. I requested and received a DB TB here in Bolivia. I ended up releasing it in a cache in Florida, but it was still sent to Bolivia for starters.

Ah, well it looks like you need to delete another log. Oh well, I think I'm just going to leave it alone. It's not that important. I guess being mis-logged is part of it's story. That works for me. Just glad it's moving. Thanks for your help.

That's basically what I just did, except I grabbed it from the current cache. I did a backdated note dropping it back in the Highway 17 cache, then dropped it back in the current cache, but it didn't work. Grabbing does the same as Retrieve. What didn't work? Mileage updates? That could take a few days. The system is slow for that kind of thing. It still showed it as being retrieved from the MIGO event.

That's basically what I just did, except I grabbed it from the current cache. I did a backdated note dropping it back in the Highway 17 cache, then dropped it back in the current cache, but it didn't work.

I did that, but the miles are still wrong. I tried grabbing it and fixing everything, but that didn't work so I deleted all those logs. How can I show that it was retrieved from the Highway 17 cache and not the MIGO event? Or should I just ignore it?

I'm referring to TBZF6H. A cacher said in his log he would return it to the cache he took it from, but he must have copied down the number and logged it into an event in Michigan. My question is, if I delete the log about the Michigan event, will that take off those fake miles and will that affect the 2 logs that follow it?

I will be taking TB1F26D with me from Springfield, MO to Tampa, FL in a few days. It's wanting to go to Romania. Keep an eye out for it. It may move closer to Orlando before you get there.

Just checked the 2 unactivated TB tags I have and neither are a match. Sorry. Neat idea, though. Hope you find what you are looking for.

Now that you've gone through the process of getting the copy tag released, don't be surprised if the original tb surfaces again. I have released a copy tag on 3 different tbs, after they have been gone for more than 6 months, and all emails have gone unanswered. Two times that I released the copy, the original tb reappeared. The first time the original tb reappeared a couple months after the copy tag had already started traveling. Since I was out of the country at the time, the finder of the original tb held it for me while I ordered a new tb tag and had it sent to them. They attached the new tag to the original item and kept it moving. The second time it happened, the original tb showed up 1 day after I had released the copy tag in a cache close to my house. This time I just went back to the cache and retrieved the copy tag item and the original tb is traveling again. The 3rd copy tag I released was for a tb that was in a cache that was muggled and everything was gone. The copy tag is traveling just fine.

I have Blue Gumball Micro and Orange (and black) Gumball Micro TB's that have room to swap small items. It turns out that they would have made lousy micro caches anyway, because they are too hard to open. The orange one has been broken and repaired. However, they have done well as travel bugs. Hope you do well with your TB idea.

I live in Cochabamba, Bolivia. There is only 1 cache (a virtual) in my city. I do not get to cache much, except on my occasional trips to the states. I own 14 TB's because that is how I get to enjoy caching. I am currently in the states and hope to release a few more TB's before I go back to Bolivia. I said all of that to say this...even a boring discover log is exciting to me, when I am so far away and can't cache. It keeps me in the game. So if you come across one of my TB's, discover it or move it either one, but please don't ignore it.