Creative travel bugs

[+Pengie123]

I recently made a new kind of travel bug. (To my knoledge no one else has done it) It is a discover only bug that you go out and find in the woods. After 100 people discover it, I will release it into the geocache wild and a geocaceh will take its place. Here is the link: http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.as...b8-bfa2abc48e71. Anyone can go for it. There is a log for you to sign as well.

[+moop]

I suspect it will succumb to the urge to travel (that's what Travel Bugs do) before 100 people discover it. Best of luck though!

[+Finders_Jeepers]

Nobody is going to discover it.

 

It won't show up on any cache search. It doesn't come up on Google Earth..

 

Great - you gave the coordinates, but unless you are looking for this specific bug, you will never happen across it

[+BlueDeuce]

I think it's worth a try.

 

Is advertising an issue? I'd be happy to offer suggestions.

 

It's do-able.

Edited August 25, 2007 by BlueDeuce

[+stepshep]

Hmm, interesting. This bug has made it to my watchlist.

Edited August 25, 2007 by stepshep

[+cache_test_dummies]

This is an interesting concept. I'm surprised I haven't heard of the idea before. I'm tempted to try it myself.

 

But here's what I'm wondering: could this style of TB (especially if lots of people start doing this) be considered an abuse of the system by Groundspeak? What if, for example, someone leaves one of these TBs in a National Park? In front of the White House? Next to a school? On private property without permission? To the land managers and property owners, these things would look and feel exactly like a cache, and might not be at all welcome. And the resulting complaints would come right back to GC.com.

 

On a small scale, it might be kind of fun to see how this goes. But if it becomes widespread, I could see TPTB locking these down.

[+JATurtle]

The coordinates appear to be within 500 feet of a cache?

[+cache_test_dummies]

The coordinates appear to be within 500 feet of a cache?

Within 500 feet of one of the OP's caches, actually. Does this matter?

[handyman4125]

I released a couple clever bugs, one was called Destination Unknown and whoever picked it up was to decide not where they would drop it but where the NEXT finder would drop it. Instructions were to take it to the destination cache that the last finder had requested and write in the name of a cache not too far away for the bug to go to next. It was stolen from the place I dropped it.

 

The next one was a little crock which finders were supposed to trade goodies with local themes, like event keychains or city/state fridge magnets and the like. Take something from where the crock had been before, put in something from where you picked it up and send it off to someplace new. It was stolen from the place I dropped it.

 

Now I have my caching car listed as a travel bug. I thought I was doing something really unique and clever. Nevermind. It looks like the idea is somewhat popular already, to the end that someone is marketing custom magnets and window clings to make vehicles into travel bugs.

 

Oh well. This is the only one of these around my neighborhood, so THERE! HA!

 

[+dark_onyx1982]

I released a couple clever bugs, one was called Destination Unknown and whoever picked it up was to decide not where they would drop it but where the NEXT finder would drop it. Instructions were to take it to the destination cache that the last finder had requested and write in the name of a cache not too far away for the bug to go to next. It was stolen from the place I dropped it.

 

The next one was a little crock which finders were supposed to trade goodies with local themes, like event keychains or city/state fridge magnets and the like. Take something from where the crock had been before, put in something from where you picked it up and send it off to someplace new. It was stolen from the place I dropped it.

 

Now I have my caching car listed as a travel bug. I thought I was doing something really unique and clever. Nevermind. It looks like the idea is somewhat popular already, to the end that someone is marketing custom magnets and window clings to make vehicles into travel bugs.

 

Oh well. This is the only one of these around my neighborhood, so THERE! HA!

 

 

Better hope your latest TB doesn't get stolen sorry I could not resist