+Sparrowhawk Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 (edited) (Hello from Oregon, USA! This post was deliberately written very simply - and with no american slang - so that it might become more easy to translate in any language via the free web-translator websites. I hope that is a helpful decision for other people, and that my writing does not look very stupid as a result. Greetings to anyone who does not live in the USA! I have a "Yellow Jeep" travel bug that I want to give as a gift to someone else. I have been keeping this TB, not setting it free, while wondering what to do with it. I have decided it would be a wonderful thing to set it free by giving it to a geocacher very far away from me. I want to make sure that normally, the far-away geocacher would never have had a chance to get a YJTB. That would make it much more precious than my simply leaving it in a cache near to where I reside. It would be great fun to find a geocacher in a far away place who would greatly desire this YJTB. This cacher must reside within a nation with a good number of caches (so that the TJTB does not get stuck). However, the cacher's nation should be a place which has rarely seen a YJTB anywhere within it's borders. If the particular nation never had a YJTB before in ANY caches, that would be wonderful. My guess is that the best chance of accomplishing this goal would be to exclude english-speaking countries. So that would be my first rule: I will only ship this YJTB as a gift to a geocacher in a nation where the first language spoken there is something other than English. I will pay the shipping charge. Please write a nice paragraph here describing your country/nation and tell me why I should ship my YJTB to you. Creativity is encouraged. Please limit it to a few short paragraphs. You may also post pictures of beautiful places within your home nation. If you have to make a translation of your paragraphs to English via a translation web site, that's OK. My writing - translated to your language via any translation website - probably does not look very good either. I should set a date for when there is a deadline... so I will say that the deadline is midnight, Pacific Standard Time on Tuesday, January 11, 2005. If you are in a non-english-speaking country, and you have access to a local geocaching discussion forum, please re-post this writing on that forum, both in my original English and translated to your language. Thank you. Edited January 5, 2005 by Sparrowhawk Quote Link to comment
+zygote2k Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 can I have it if no one else claims it? Quote Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 Good for you. I however would never send one overseas...(ahem)....for the third time. Quote Link to comment
+Sparrowhawk Posted January 5, 2005 Author Share Posted January 5, 2005 Is it a bad idea? I am afraid of trying to come up with a good idea and then someone figures out a way to criticize it in a way I don't mean. Quote Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 (edited) Yeah, someone will find a reason to complain. Edited January 5, 2005 by BlueDeuce Quote Link to comment
+Medic005 Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 I'm travelling to Germany and India next week, send it to me and I'll place it in a cache. Quote Link to comment
+sTeamTraen Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 Hello Sparrowhawk, I would love the chance to get my hands on a Jeep TB. As you can see from my profile, I'm a fairly active cacher. What you can't perhaps see, is that I am almost the only cacher in my region of France (Alsace) - despite a population of 1.2 million people. (In fact there are two other cachers: one has two cache finds, the other has three.) So the chance of me stumbling on a Jeep otherwise, are "minimal". I would hope to get it going in one of my (few) local caches, to give the (few) other active French cachers a chance to get hold of it. Thanks for taking into consideration this "poor lonesome cacher" Nick Quote Link to comment
+Sparrowhawk Posted January 5, 2005 Author Share Posted January 5, 2005 YAY! sTeamTraen answers first! Glad this is not a complete silly thing for me to do. Now we wait... Quote Link to comment
+italofila Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 I vote for sTeamTraen, because Nick is not only an active "lonely" cacher in France. He is also restless to make Geocaching more popular and organizes an Event next May! (I'm from Germany, have already had a Jeep TB in my hands and have noticed that there are some more traveling through Germany; so I'm not your candidate) Keep on hunting italofila Quote Link to comment
+BalkanSabranje Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 Well, similar opinion here: This is a great idea; as far as I know, there have not been any YJTBs in our home country, Austria; and Nick (from sTeamTraen) is absolutely one of the right persons to be honoured with a Jeep (I am - of course - also very willing to set it free here in Austria ). BalkanSabranje Quote Link to comment
+tobsas Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 I would like to vote also for sTeamTraen. The Jeep won't be stuck there as my guess is that several germans will jump to their feeds to get it but I doubt that anyone would place one there as they are rare in Germany but at least there are some. And I think sTeamTraen deserves a Jeep for placing 12 caches in an area where otherwise would be not even half as much without him. (However, I also think BalkanSabranje would be a good choice. ;-) ) Greetings from Germany, Tobias Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 I like the idea of a Jeep in France. Another thumbs up. Quote Link to comment
+BalkanSabranje Posted January 7, 2005 Share Posted January 7, 2005 Not just to make it not too simple and obvious: Divine "deserves" one as well! BS/2 Quote Link to comment
cezanne Posted January 7, 2005 Share Posted January 7, 2005 as far as I know, there have not been any YJTBs in our home country, Austria; That's not true. See this (however rather difficult) cache http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...26-767f250e4598 Cezanne Quote Link to comment
+BalkanSabranje Posted January 8, 2005 Share Posted January 8, 2005 As far as I know, ... That's not true. [...] Well, it was true then. Quote Link to comment
+Sparrowhawk Posted January 14, 2005 Author Share Posted January 14, 2005 sTeamTraen is the obvious winner! Please contact me and give me your physical address, sTeamTraen! Quote Link to comment
+Schatzpirat Posted January 14, 2005 Share Posted January 14, 2005 Congratulation! It's a good desicion! Greetings Schatzpirat Quote Link to comment
+sTeamTraen Posted January 14, 2005 Share Posted January 14, 2005 Wow, thanks, I'm flattered by all the support, including from people who have found my caches. I will take very good care of it (for a reasonable period of time, of course). My address is on the way to Sparrowhawk by e-mail via the site. Quote Link to comment
+sTeamTraen Posted February 19, 2005 Share Posted February 19, 2005 It arrived today - thanks to Sparrowhawk - and it's a virgin too ! Quote Link to comment
+Sparrowhawk Posted February 20, 2005 Author Share Posted February 20, 2005 T'know, doing it this way was a lot more fun than just trying to post some story and plopping it in a local geocache... I like this better. Quote Link to comment
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