PineLemon Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 I have made a trackable and all i need to do now is drop it. But where? I can drop it in my home town in Sydney, or on holiday in San Francisco. I think San Francisco is better because the US has more caches but i would like a second opinion. Quote Link to comment
+IceColdUK Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 Assuming you’re just looking to get some miles on your trackable, I’d probably dip it into a local cache before dropping it off in SF to continue it’s journey. You could even set it’s mission to get back home. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
PineLemon Posted January 22, 2019 Author Share Posted January 22, 2019 Thank you so much for that advice. I will dip it in a local cache and then bring it to SF and make it's mission to get home. 2 1 Quote Link to comment
+on4bam Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 That's what I did. Drop/Retrieve in a local cache, go on holiday and put it in a cache with a "come home" mission. Just be prepared to have it go missing sooner or later. One of mine went missing after the first cacher picked it up. Another made it to 150Km from home and was then taken to Ireland (it's supposed to come home in Belgium). Quote Link to comment
+irisisleuk Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 16 hours ago, Baileygill said: I have made a trackable and all i need to do now is drop it. I don't see any "trackables owned" on your profile. So before dropping your trackable in a cache don't forget to activate it. Quote Link to comment
PineLemon Posted January 22, 2019 Author Share Posted January 22, 2019 I will be activating the trackable closer to date. Quote Link to comment
+noncentric Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 Just mentioning it, in case it affects your decision of when to activate your trackable. The "Released" date for the trackable is editable. After you activate a trackable, then you can change the "Released" date to whatever you want by editing the "Date Activated" date for the trackable. Quote Link to comment
harper_finding_stuff Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 Dunno about you but I got two TBs this Christmas. Dropped one in Florida while I was on vacation and it's already traveled 1600+ miles in just one month, give or take. The one I saved for when I returned sat in a geocache for a month. Point being I would put a TB in a vacation cache again in a heartbeat. Quote Link to comment
+cerberus1 Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 21 hours ago, harper_finding_stuff said: Dunno about you but I got two TBs this Christmas. Dropped one in Florida while I was on vacation and it's already traveled 1600+ miles in just one month, give or take. The one I saved for when I returned sat in a geocache for a month. Point being I would put a TB in a vacation cache again in a heartbeat. Curious if you know what a "vacation" cache is. A vacation cache is one placed while you're on vacation (and generally frowned on by HQ), not one that's simply a cache found when you're on vacation. What does the "took it to" visit logs (that's still held by only one cacher) do you feel really say about that trackable ? - Other than their picture from the first day retrieved, you don't even know if that person really still has it, or it's just in their inventory. The other may have sat in your geocache for a while, but to be fair, it did have maintenance issues for two months earlier, and it could simply be folks were a bit wary after that. We read logs and would bypass it ourselves ... on a log you wrote. We've seen the opposite (though all out are gone now). We did better with many folks drop and retrieving, seeming more attentive than one person just adding it to each cache they found. Quote Link to comment
harper_finding_stuff Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 19 hours ago, cerberus1 said: Curious if you know what a "vacation" cache is. A vacation cache is one placed while you're on vacation (and generally frowned on by HQ), not one that's simply a cache found when you're on vacation. What does the "took it to" visit logs (that's still held by only one cacher) do you feel really say about that trackable ? - Other than their picture from the first day retrieved, you don't even know if that person really still has it, or it's just in their inventory. The other may have sat in your geocache for a while, but to be fair, it did have maintenance issues for two months earlier, and it could simply be folks were a bit wary after that. We read logs and would bypass it ourselves ... on a log you wrote. We've seen the opposite (though all out are gone now). We did better with many folks drop and retrieving, seeming more attentive than one person just adding it to each cache they found. ohh ooops not what i meant. i mean a cache that i saw while on vacation. Quote Link to comment
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