+Dizzy_Lizzy_ Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 I picked up a trackable in Byron Bay Australia. After moving on and logging it, I didn't have time to drop it in a safe spot in Australia before my flight to Europe. With some experience finding caches with missing trackables, I try to only swap one out for another and try not to keep hold of one for too long, but I have inadvertently sent a trackable to England, therefore diverting the mission massively... it being a race as well. I feel really bad but I'm hoping it's seen as creating the race more interesting. Am I a terrible person? 1 Quote Link to comment
+NanCycle Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 2 hours ago, Dizzy_Lizzy_ said: I picked up a trackable in Byron Bay Australia. After moving on and logging it, I didn't have time to drop it in a safe spot in Australia before my flight to Europe. With some experience finding caches with missing trackables, I try to only swap one out for another and try not to keep hold of one for too long, but I have inadvertently sent a trackable to England, therefore diverting the mission massively... it being a race as well. I feel really bad but I'm hoping it's seen as creating the race more interesting. Am I a terrible person? Gosh no! A terrible person would have chucked it in the trash. This is just "life happens." Quote Link to comment
+cerberus1 Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 Before smartphone days (the hobby started without 'em...), and unless a mission was attached to the trackable, you didn't know it's mission until you got home. Many trackables were "off mission" just by heading a different direction, or by simply being removed from the cache (part of a bonus maybe). With all the many issues with these things lately, I believe the TO would be happy that it's at least still in play. Quote Link to comment
+Dizzy_Lizzy_ Posted December 22, 2017 Author Share Posted December 22, 2017 Thank goodness... I swapped this one out too and it looks like I've picked up a scout one... I'm trying to keep it in this country before I leave... but like I said... for security... I only like swapping them out as the cache that I'm swapping into/ out of seems reliable. If that made any sense?! :/ Quote Link to comment
+cerberus1 Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 I guess if it makes sense to you and working, why not? You do realize that there's no requirement to "swap" though, right? Quote Link to comment
+Dizzy_Lizzy_ Posted December 23, 2017 Author Share Posted December 23, 2017 Yes but the logic I see is if I have discovered a cache that has a trackable in... it's reliable to leave one there. Quote Link to comment
+CAVinoGal Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 18 hours ago, Dizzy_Lizzy_ said: Yes but the logic I see is if I have discovered a cache that has a trackable in... it's reliable to leave one there. Logical, and a good practice for leaving trackables in a cache where they are likely to be picked up and moved along. I don't always "swap" though, and for various reasons. Sometimes I'll drop a trackable or two off in a cache that has none (I use one of my hides to place trackables that I am starting on a journey, or that I haven't found a suitable drop off place for). Or I'll grab a trackable froma cache but have none to replace it with. Or one we came across that had a dozen or more trackables (it was STUFFED with them!) so we (hubby and I) each took 3 and left none, it was still full of trackables!! Quote Link to comment
+Dizzy_Lizzy_ Posted January 11, 2018 Author Share Posted January 11, 2018 How awesome to have found a cache with so many trackables... i have visited a few that say they have 5 or 6 and there have been none... it's these caches I don't trust... but I'll take all this info and use it Quote Link to comment
+Goldsmith Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 On 12/22/2017 at 9:14 AM, Dizzy_Lizzy_ said: I picked up a trackable in Byron Bay Australia. After moving on and logging it, I didn't have time to drop it in a safe spot in Australia before my flight to Europe. With some experience finding caches with missing trackables, I try to only swap one out for another and try not to keep hold of one for too long, but I have inadvertently sent a trackable to England, therefore diverting the mission massively... it being a race as well. I feel really bad but I'm hoping it's seen as creating the race more interesting. Am I a terrible person? As a travel bug owner, I am just thrilled to see them move even if it is in the wrong direction. Too many just disappear. I have one right now in Japan that was suppose to go to Key West, Florida. I was just thrilled the person who took it there logged a beautiful photo of my travel bug. Not all travels have to be a straight path. 2 Quote Link to comment
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