MIA Travel Bug Etiquette

[+Kai Team]

I placed a travel bug ("Otto the Orange") in one of my caches. Three days later (August 30) someone logged the cache and noted the TB was already gone. No one else logged the cache between the time I placed the TB and the time it was noted as gone, and the TB still hasn't been logged, so I went and checked the cache myself and sure enough, it's MIA.

 

I'm reluctant to archive the bug in the hope that whoever has it will wake up and log it, but on the other hand I don't want to mislead people into thinking there's a TB in the cache when there isn't. Any suggestions?

 

Kai Team

[+HappyFrog (& gang)]

I had this happen to a travel bug I had (Bug Eye) http://www.geocaching.com/track/track_detail.asp?ID=41109

About a month or two later he showed up in Montana. The person who picked up the TB had never logged the TB out of the site he was in. When I found that the TB was not in the cache, I posted a note on the web page for both the cache and on Bug Eye's web page. The new geocacher put a note on Bug Eye's page stating where he was and I sent him a email telling him how to log him out and log him back in.

 

HappyFrog

[+Mejas]

I picked up a bug the other day that is over a thousand miles from where it started and only shows 204 miles. Who ever picked it up and brought it to the east coast did not log it in or out. I did not find this out till I got it home and loged a fine. It wants to go to the west coast. I'm going to try and move west about a hundred miles.

 

Mejas

 

Love caching

[+Kai Team]

Thanks Happy Frog. I've taken your advice. Kai Team.

 

Kai Team

[+HappyFrog (& gang)]

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Originally posted by Kai Team:

Thanks Happy Frog. I've taken your advice. Kai Team.

 

Kai Team

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I hope that it helps you!!

 

HappyFrog