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Has any one ever tried to set up a network for moving travel bugs around the country? I live in Salt lake City and drive often to Idaho Wyoming and Colorado where I drop off and pick up bugs. Is anyone else doing this or would anyone be interested in getting something started.

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I'd be interested and open to new travel / network travel ideas.

Maybe even multiple networks could be formed. One network could specialize in transporting LARGE TBs among LARGE cache containers. :P

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There is a network, it's called "geocaches". If you are planning a trip, and want to move bugs along with you, you can post in your regional forums for cachers to meet with you and pass them off. Give a date of departure, a place to meet, or a cache to leave them in and pick them up in a timely manner, and what direction you are heading.

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It looks to me from following bug histories that people tend to go out and scoop up bugs to go along with them when they know they'll be travelling or going someplace interesting.

 

Incidentally, one that I released in the UK took an almost immediate thousand mile trip south the Spain, mellowed in a cache for six weeks, and just reappeared today 1200 miles north, back in the UK. Which is very cool, except I really enjoyed saying, "my doorknob is in Spain." It sounds like something from a Monty Python tourist phrasebook.

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There is a network, it's called "geocaches".  If you are planning a trip, and want to move bugs along with you, you can post in your regional forums for cachers to meet with you and pass them off.  Give a date of departure, a place to meet, or a cache to leave them in and pick them up in a timely manner, and what direction you are heading.

First visit to the forum, and here I find someone else asking the same question I've asked myself... I've emailed other 'cachers directly to arrange a swap before. We don't have an formally-organized caching group here in Alaska to work through - it would be nice to 'post' a TB mission on a regional website, so others could participate in the mission.

 

Having just returned from a trip to Lousiana & Florida where I acquired several TBs which I've subsequently discovered were on their way to places such as Germany or California, I was stumped as to how to advertise their presence & mission, beyond just placing them in a cache here in Anchorage Alaska near the airport and hope for random luck to move them on. Of course, I wish the bugs would have had mission tags attached to them as well!

 

A 'TB Mission' log or site would be a nice added feature to this site... (as the site manager pulls his hair out!!!) :o

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