+eusty Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 We left a TB when we were down in Dorset.. Current GOAL While my owners were on holiday in Weymouth they left me behind :-( I just want to get home to Kings Lynn in Norfolk so I can be reunited with them again, maybe if I do they will send me off on new travels. I would like some photos of my journey home please, just to prove to them I didn't just catch the train home!! And this was on the TB as well as the listing. It had got to Guildford in Surrey so it was making it's way back...good we were thinking! Then someone picks it up and takes it to GC2CGD0 When I pick up a GC/TB then I have a read of it's mission and try to help it...wish everyone did!! Rant over Quote Link to comment
+Lovejoy and Tinker Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Did you state it had to take the most direct route? A straight line between Weymouth and Kings Lynn? It's just coming back to you via some interesting, far flung and varied parts of the UK (hopefully with some pictures), surely that's all part of the fun of watching where TBs travel. Quote Link to comment
+The Patrician Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 That's one of the reasons I don't bother with TBs, I've never looked what they're supposed to be doing so except on rare occasions I leave them alone. Quote Link to comment
+Aggrajag Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 When someone picks up a TB or GC I would think that 90% of people AT THAT POINT do not know its mission... it is not until they get home and log the retrieval that they find out the goal. That goal may not fit into their plans or places - in this case would you prefer they held on to it indefinitely until they were going in the right direction, or simply dropped it back into circulation with a few miles added? Quote Link to comment
+eusty Posted September 2, 2011 Author Share Posted September 2, 2011 When someone picks up a TB or GC I would think that 90% of people AT THAT POINT do not know its mission... it is not until they get home and log the retrieval that they find out the goal. Thats one of the reasons I put the goal on the tb No biggie its just I was hoping to get it home and then send it out on a 'go anywhere' mission. All part of the fun I guess Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 The systemn can work spectacularly sometimes!! Quote Link to comment
+eusty Posted September 2, 2011 Author Share Posted September 2, 2011 The systemn can work spectacularly sometimes!! Theres hope then! Quote Link to comment
+Bear and Ragged Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Did you state it had to take the most direct route? A straight line between Weymouth and Kings Lynn? It's just coming back to you via some interesting, far flung and varied parts of the UK (hopefully with some pictures), surely that's all part of the fun of watching where TBs travel. Agree. Do owners give specific instructions? You didn't say by which route! Quote Link to comment
+Aggrajag Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 When someone picks up a TB or GC I would think that 90% of people AT THAT POINT do not know its mission... it is not until they get home and log the retrieval that they find out the goal. Thats one of the reasons I put the goal on the tb The irony in that sentence, and the subject title, is not lost on me (... wanders off to Specsavers.) Quote Link to comment
+Gushoneybun Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 If I see the mission on a trackable in the cache and can not help I will often leave it but sometimes the item may have been in there for a while so I take them anyway and hopefully drop in a busier cache, even if its the wrong way so at least it gets going again. There are certainly occasions when I have taken them also when I did not read the attached mission as there were muggles approaching or it was throwing it down so I grabbed it and closed the cache quickly. If the mission is not attached and I do not read it until I am online later, then there is not a lot I can do. Which really is how all trackables are these days, you stick a wish on them but at the end of the day it is a wish so what will be will be. Just hope it gets some interesting pictures along the way. You are at the mercy of cachers and can just wish it eventually arrives where you want it to be, one of my coins that wanted to stay in England was found in a cache in Switzerland after going missing I am just happy it has reappeared and travelling around again. Quote Link to comment
+londontavern Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Where's your sense of humor. Isn't watching the route a TB takes to complete it's task and all of the caches that it visits all part of the fun. If you just wanted it to go directly from A to B perhaps you should have just used the Post Office or a courier company. Admonishment over. Quote Link to comment
+eusty Posted September 2, 2011 Author Share Posted September 2, 2011 In my 'prefect mind' it would come mostly straight here...but I guess a detour or two isn't the end of the world P.S. I have a sense of humour Quote Link to comment
+eusty Posted September 2, 2011 Author Share Posted September 2, 2011 When someone picks up a TB or GC I would think that 90% of people AT THAT POINT do not know its mission... it is not until they get home and log the retrieval that they find out the goal. Thats one of the reasons I put the goal on the tb The irony in that sentence, and the subject title, is not lost on me (... wanders off to Specsavers.) When I mean on I mean on...as in attached to it Quote Link to comment
Dave from Glanton Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 I have some TB's which comprise a plastic thing with the TB tag attached. Written clearly on the plastic thing - not an attached piece of card - it says "do not take outside of mainland UK". The bugs are partial clues to a puzzle cache, so want to keep them in the country. You can imagine my frustration when I saw a log saying that a finder had happily relocated one of them to Belgium Quote Link to comment
+MazdaRoy Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 As I live close by and was one of the last to visit that cache, would you like me to get it and post it to you? or are you happy enough for it to have a holiday in Northern Ireland? Quote Link to comment
+BaCas Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Whats an odd detour between cacher's and their TB's We picked one up once ... read it wrong at first - second read it needed to go back to owner in Oswestry for repair/replacement - was on our way to meet a friend from Oswestry at campsite in Cheshire so took TB - friend then started caching and placed in a cache in Oswestry and notified the owner ... job done !!!!!!! Nooooo - someone picked it up and took it away on their travels no idea where it went from there We only have one out - with mission attached to it - but it's not moving much Quote Link to comment
+eusty Posted September 2, 2011 Author Share Posted September 2, 2011 As I live close by and was one of the last to visit that cache, would you like me to get it and post it to you? or are you happy enough for it to have a holiday in Northern Ireland? It's fine thanks It was more an experiment to see if it would get home, but I guess it may get here someday...if not I'll enjoy it's travels Quote Link to comment
+Legochugglers Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Our TBs going round the Netherlands at the moment which is great but I cant tell a word that the logs are saying. Its all double dutch to me....!!!! Quote Link to comment
+little-miss-naughty Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 sometimes it happens i do try and follow the missions but if your away with out internet and pick up a tb when u get home u could of taken it in the wrong direction compleatly or even out of the country i have done it many a time by accident but then my tbs are spread all over the world and have had many detours. personaly i would rather my tb moved than stay in a cache untill the right person can move it. lmn Quote Link to comment
team tisri Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 The systemn can work spectacularly sometimes!! Meh, only 15,000 miles? A friend of mine in Connecticut released a TB with the mission to get to the West Coast of America. Which it achieved, but it went the long way (i.e. via Europe and Japan). Then it made it back to a cache within a few miles of where he lived at the time. Quote Link to comment
+Flyfishermanbob Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 I'm laughing .... I've got a TB and yes it started out with a mission statement attached ..http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=60399.. & after 7 years and 18000 miles it got within 50 miles of its goal .... only to be kidnapped back to Europe ... Its part of the game ... Quote Link to comment
+drsolly Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Our TBs going round the Netherlands at the moment which is great but I cant tell a word that the logs are saying. Its all double dutch to me....!!!! http://translate.google.com/ Quote Link to comment
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