I thought travel bugs were great. My firstone went several thousand miles and *almost* made it to its destination. It was picked up, logged by some one and then "poof", gone. As irony would have it, the person who had it last "magically" produced a travel bug VERY similar to the one I had floating around. I guess there is little need to purchase travel bugs only so someone else across the US can dis me by recycling it as their own.