+KI4HLW Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 As I spent the last hour logging and posting pics to a Travel Bug page I started to wonder what is the furthest, hardest, or craziest thing you have done to help a TB complete it's mission. You can read mine here TB22D, I drove over an hour to bring a very old Astronaut TB to Kennedy Space Center and dip it into a Virtual Cache on the compound. In my case it was not actually the TBs goal to go to KSC, but after contacting the owner and asking if he wanted me to bring it there he loved the idea and asked me to make sure to post lots of pictures. After all the lost TB posts I figured it be nice about the ones that made it to their goal for a change. Quote Link to comment
+Max and 99 Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 I made my husband take a stuffed toy TB with him to Canada for a TB that belonged to a class of grade-school students that were watching its progress. Quote Link to comment
+EyeD10T Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 I have one that I am carrying with me to all the caches I find until the snow melts and I can find it a good home. Its mission is to visit a lot of caches and meet a lot of cachers, so I am helping with one of the missions. Quote Link to comment
+Walts Hunting Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 How about taking two bugs from Sacramento CA to their desired destination the Wright Brothers Field in Kill Devil Hills, NC. Plus they got a massage at an airport stop. Quote Link to comment
+Harry Dolphin Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 Oh, who knows what we'd do for the right TB. This one wanted to visit the Statue of Liberty. So we took him there. Quote Link to comment
+ncfinn Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 I was in Europe and discovered that at the airport there was a TB that wanted to go to my home state in the U.S. I had my niece take me there, 30 min one way. After i retuned to the U.S. i drove three hours (one way) just to get the TB to the city it wanted to visit. The owner never contacted me and never said Thank You. I will never do that again. Quote Link to comment
+Tim2AKAT2 Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 I was caching today and found one that had been dropped off by someone from france who wants it to visit a bunch of states so I am taking it from KY to my Home in FL. I just brought one from FL to Chicago it's not going to move if I don't move them. T2 Quote Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 (edited) I was caching today and found one that had been dropped off by someone from france who wants it to visit a bunch of states so I am taking it from KY to my Home in FL. I just brought one from FL to Chicago it's not going to move if I don't move them. T2 Wait a minute, you're not one of those Dipping cachers who assist bugs towards the goal, are you? bd Edited February 20, 2011 by BlueDeuce Quote Link to comment
+sidekeck Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 I picked up one TB that sat in the second cache it was placed in for a month and a half. It wanted to go to Texas. I had a caching friend going to Texas in the next month and a half. So in that time, the TB went everywhere with me--MA, RI, CT, NH & VT. Then off to TX with my friend. I found a naked TB last summer. Looked it up and it had been missing for over a year--belonged to a kid in the Netherlands. So I contacted the owner, picked up some travelers to attach to it and sent it back out on its merry way. Last week I found yet another naked TB. The owner posted a note on the cache page asking if someone would take it on a tour of their home town since the TB is in their home state. I contacted them since the traveler has since gone missing, and will find something to replace it. And I also asked for a list of tour stops and will take the tb on a photo tour in the next few weeks. In both instances the TB owners have been very gracious. I suppose if I ran into an ungrateful one, I might stop doing this. Quote Link to comment
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