Hawaii: The Tb Black Hole

[+Groves_Trekkers]

I've decided that Hawaii is a Black Hole for travel bugs.

 

People are excited to take bugs there, but loath to bring any back with them.

 

Here's the reason:

 

People leave home with lots of room in their luggage, so throwing in a travel bug seems like a no brainer.

 

People get to Hawaii, drop off the travel bug some where, then go shopping for junk that fills up their suitcases: gifts for family, friends, the person feeding the cat...

 

It's time to leave Hawaii. No room for any TB passengers is available in their suitcase, so none get picked-up for the trip back to the mainland.

 

Just like a real Black Hole in space, once things enter, they can never leave.

 

I'm about to lose one of my TBs to Hawaii.

 

Groves_Trekkers

[+The Frantic Cachers]

but then how come people in Hawaii don't take them when they leave the Islands? Are you saying that Hawaiians are TB hogs?

[+droosa]

Not necessary true, check this one. Although it did stay for some time.

But look where it is now.

 

http://www.geocaching.com/track/track_detail.asp?ID=14156

 

If they don't go missing, they should eventually move.

[+brad.32]

I'll seen a number of bugs that have left Hawai'i. Bugs get stuck and go missing everywhere.

[+MissJenn]

I would gladly go to Hawaii with an empty suitcase and bring all the TBs back, all for the sake of the game.

Who wants to send me the plane ticket?

[+The Frantic Cachers]

Well we wouldn't want miss Jenn to travel alone so FINE....i'll go too

Edited December 3, 2003 by The Frantic Cachers

[Fakk 2]

I lived there for 3 yrs so you will need a tour guide, include me with the plane ticket. Oh and a note for the boss telling them that I have to go.

[+The Frantic Cachers]

I was just checking out the cache maps of Hawaii and it looks like 75% of the caches have a bug in em.....maybe they have just become so common place they get easily overlooked

[+brad.32]

... but there is the problem that any bugs that go there probably have to be found and brought back by vacationing cachers. That would be a reason to get stuck in Hawai'i. The caches there would end up being like TB hotels and bugs get stuck in those everywhere.

[+Sparrowhawk]

Huh. That's wierd. Seems like a LOT of TBs that land in the Los Angeles airport cache (Grand Central Station) seem to come from Hawaii.

[+Team Tecmage]

The only Tb we took to hawaii got out just fine. The curious thing is, OUR TB with a destination of Hawaii got "misplaced" in Tucson. Read here. Maybe it was the Hawaii connection?

[+The Gidzagubbagoos]

Hmm I was going to send a travel bug to Hawaii among other places, maybe I shouldn't...

 

75% have a travel bug in them!? I wish it was like that in Utah. There are only a few bugs around here and when I went to get one I found it wasn't really there

[+MissJenn]

Huh. That's wierd. Seems like a LOT of TBs that land in the Los Angeles airport cache (Grand Central Station) seem to come from Hawaii.

When I was in Alaska, I was told that - during the winter months - the most populated "city" in Alaska is Hawaii!

 

I wonder what the correlation is between TBs and these two states... Any statisticians out there that are looking for a project, feel free to give this a look-see.

[+donbadabon]

boxermom is heading to Hawaii in January for a vacation. I will ask her to grab as many as she can and bring back to the states.

[+boxermom]

I definatley have no problem picking up as many TB as I can while I am in Hawaii. I will make sure that I bring an extra suit case along just for the TBs. Boxermom

[ucmike]

i chuckled at the idea that a tb would take up too much space. the ones i've found and seen would fit in a pocket. maybe the hawaii bugs are supersized?????