Taking Multiple Travelbugs

[+geologyrox]

I am going on a couple long distance trips this summer - one a geology field camp where we will be driving from Florida out to New Mexico and then touring the national parks out west. Then we drive back home, where i get married and go off to amsterdam, london, and sri lanka, before going back home. i have seen many travelbugs that want to travel, but i'm not sure what the ettiquite is. Should I go on a TB hunting expedition right before I leave, and pick up bunches of them? I'm happy to take pictures with them along the way, and drop them off as I get to a place i think will be useful to their mission. I just don't want to 'monopolize' the bugs. I did read about someone taking 15 bugs in a suitcase and customs not blinking an eye, so it can't be totally taboo, but i just want to make sure it's not frowned upon. Thanks!

[+Lil Elephants]

As long as you're helping them achieve their stated goals, I don't see a problem with it.

[+Gas Guys]

The goal of (most) travel bugs is for them to move - in this case you are moving them. I don't see any problem with moving a lot of them at one time. When I go on vacations, I round up a bunch of TB's that are heading in that direction before I go.

 

Take cool pictures, get some miles on the TB's, and have a good time!

[Aushiker]

G'day

 

Not meaning to hijack this thread, but have a related question. Wondering what the view is on taking more than one travel bug from a cache at the same time. We have a Stargate cache here which sometimes has a few incoming travel bugs in it and wonder if taking more than one at a time is acceptable.

 

Thanks in advance

Andrew

Edited April 15, 2005 by Aushiker

[+Pasha]

I grabbed two TBs each from two different caches today specifically to move them along on our weekend trip to a different state. I didn't leave any TBs to replace the ones I took today, but I'll be returning to these two caches as soon as I return, hopefully laden with TBs found on the trip, specifically to replace the 4 I grabbed. I don't see anything wrong with it as long as your logs show that you're not just randomly grabbing everything in sight - you're grabbing them specifically to move them along.