+lmcgisme Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 I have a travel bug, Prancin' Pony , which I dropped off in Thailand five months ago. The bugs only mission was to keep prancing, visiting as many caches as possible. Having dropped the bug 8,000+ miles away I thought it would travel to new and exciting places. No such luck. After going directly to Canada it headed steadily east until it was just dropped in a cache a mere ten miles from my home! It almost beat me back. Does anyone else have stories of a TB they dropped far away that came back home - with nothing in the TB's mission stating it wanted to go home, or TB's that did the oposite of what you had hoped? Quote Link to comment
+Lil Elephants Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 We had one that we dropped in Virginia while on spring break. It moved once before being picked up and brought back to Michigan where it was put in a cache 33 miles from home. Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted July 27, 2006 Share Posted July 27, 2006 (edited) 7 geocachers move your travel bug almost 10,000 miles and THIS thread is the thanks they get? And with the emoticon too. OH my fweakin' gawwwd! THIS is EXACTLY why I say the worst part about travel bugs are their owners and WHY I call the TB forum "The whining and unrealistic expectation forum." I would get a total kick if that had happened to one of mine. Sheesh. Durned if ya do and durned if'n ya don't. Edited July 27, 2006 by Snoogans Quote Link to comment
+lmcgisme Posted July 28, 2006 Author Share Posted July 28, 2006 7 geocachers move your travel bug almost 10,000 miles and THIS thread is the thanks they get? And with the emoticon too. OH my fweakin' gawwwd! THIS is EXACTLY why I say the worst part about travel bugs are their owners and WHY I call the TB forum "The whining and unrealistic expectation forum." I would get a total kick if that had happened to one of mine. Sheesh. Durned if ya do and durned if'n ya don't. Actually, most of my TB mover's got a nice email thanking them for moving my TB and taking such good care of it. It must be true that computers are good for speading information but terrible for communication. I thought it was hilarious that my TB almost beat me back home, especially since there was nothing in the goal to suggest it do so. I was trying to share a funny TB story & see if the same thing happened to anyone else. After rereading my post a couple times I still don't see where it sounds like whining, but more like tongue in cheek poking fun at myself - which appearently doesn't come across well on the computer. Lighten up and stop assuming people are whining when they're just relating their experiences. Quote Link to comment
+sillygirl & jrr Posted July 28, 2006 Share Posted July 28, 2006 We didn't think you were whining and we do have a similar story this TB was released here in Hawaii to travel the world. She turned into a boomerang as she's back in a cache not 5 miles from our home coordinates and not 2 miles from the cache she was launched in! Quote Link to comment
+team lagonda Posted July 29, 2006 Share Posted July 29, 2006 sounds kinda like a '' carrier pigon '' tb..drop em off an they fly back home.. Quote Link to comment
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