DoubleDecker Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 Why would there be TBs listed @ a virtual, ie..Heros of Flight 93 in Somerset, PA has two travel bugs listed. I don't understand why tbs would be allowed @ a virtual, especially one of this nature. Quote Link to comment
+Jamie Z Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 Normally TB can't be at a virtual, as you pointed out. However, after I did just a minute of research, I figured out part of the answer for you. The first bug, Flag of Freedom 1 had a goal to reach this specific cache. It made it. Therefore it's logical to "leave" the bug there both physically and on this website. The other bug, Phineas Bugg, wanted to visit historical sites. A trip to this place certainly fits that and is acceptable under geocaching guidelines. Why the cacher forgot to "retrieve" the bug from the "cache" is a mystery, since he seems to be fairly experienced. Jamie Quote Link to comment
+Smitherington Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 I am planning on visiting Nairobi, Kenya in the near future. The comments above are similar to what I want to do. I hope to take a travel bug or two and have them visit a virtual. I can take a photo of them at the site of the virtual. Then I will drop them off on the website and pick them up again. Quote Link to comment
The Alethiometrists Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 Well, it no longer appears to be possible to log bugs in and out of virtual caches, with the recent changes in the cache log page - unless I've missed something here. Logging a bug through a virtual was one way of doing a TB hand-off in the old days, or of getting a bug to a specific destination, as noted above. As well, there were "virtual" travel bugs - e.g., Victor and Vinny - that traveled only to non-physical caches. I guess they're stuck now, eh? ------------- "Thos' Degrees of Longitude and Latitude in Name, yet in Earthly reality are they Channels mark'd for the transport of some unseen Influence, one carefully assembl'd chain…" – Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon Quote Link to comment
+Mengarelliott Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 Yeah. I just tried to dispose of one of my dead travel bugs in the Travel Bug Graveyard cache. It's virtual, so I can't. I've sent a message to contact@geocaching.com to see if they can fix it back. Mengarelliott Quote Link to comment
+droosa Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 quote:Originally posted by DoubleDecker: Why would there be TBs listed @ a virtual, We store our mileage bug in our virtual. This gives us a running total of our miles caching. My question; why does it bother you? It does you or the game no harm. Quote Link to comment
The Alethiometrists Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 The problem has been fixed for virtuals - Yea! Still doesn't fix the graveyard situation, though, since that's a 'locationless' cache. ------------- "Thos' Degrees of Longitude and Latitude in Name, yet in Earthly reality are they Channels mark'd for the transport of some unseen Influence, one carefully assembl'd chain…" – Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon Quote Link to comment
enfanta Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 I have a TB in my virtual b/c the destination for the TB wasn't a cache. The owners are welcome to come and collect it out of the virt, but they haven't yet... Ode to a Pigeon: Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, You Lookin' at Me? YOU LOOKIN' AT ME?! (b. katt, 7/14/03) Quote Link to comment
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