Travel Bugs
Travel bugs are not prizes. They are the property of their owners and if possible we should respect their owners requests. The owners love to watch the journeys that their travel bugs go on. Therefore they should travel to another location at the earliest convenience of the finder. But, try and make sure that you move them where they wish to go to or at least in the right direction. For example, if you pick up a Travel Bug and it wants to travel North, don't move it South just because you are geocaching South of where you found it the day before. It is perfectly okay to keep it a few extra days and move it North the next time you are going that way. Another way to make it more fun for the owners of Travel Bugs is to take pictures of them and post them on the TB page.
July 2004 we found a Travel Bug named Felix the Cat The mission was visit any cache that the owner could not visit, but especially to go to Europe. We emailed the owner saying that we were going to England in December, but that he probably didn't want to have his TB in our hands that long. His response was "Felix can wait". We took Felix all over New England posting pictures to the Bug page. About a month ago to our delight we found Felix the Cat # 5. #5 is now on a similar journey around New England including pictures of vistas and historic locations for Bo Leggs to see and live the experience. Bo Leggs is a geocacher in Kansas that doesn't get to cache very often, but gets to see the world through the eyes of his Travel Bugs. As a result of taking Felix to other caches and posting pictures we have developed a pen pal relationship with Bo Leggs. It is really cool that we have become friends because of his Travel Bugs.
We would also like to mention a geocacher in New England that has logged over 1900 Travel Bugs not including Jeeps and Geocoins. His geocaching handle is Feathers and he is a legend in these parts. Feathers is a remarkable person with a great memory. He somehow seems to know the name, mission and cache location of hundreds of Travel Bugs at a time. He travels from cache to cache trying to move Travel Bugs along on their current mission. Not being selfish about how many caches he finds he revisits caches just to pick up and move TB's.
Now a quick piece of advice for gecocachers that are thinking of releasing a Travel Bug. Laminate a description of the TB's mission and attach it to the Travel Bug or put the TB in a plastic bag with a print out of what you what you would like the Travel Bug to do. This makes it easier for the finder of the cache to decide whether they should pick up the Travel Bug or leave it for the next person.
Have fun with your travel bugs and make them fun for other owners!!
July 2004 we found a Travel Bug named Felix the Cat The mission was visit any cache that the owner could not visit, but especially to go to Europe. We emailed the owner saying that we were going to England in December, but that he probably didn't want to have his TB in our hands that long. His response was "Felix can wait". We took Felix all over New England posting pictures to the Bug page. About a month ago to our delight we found Felix the Cat # 5. #5 is now on a similar journey around New England including pictures of vistas and historic locations for Bo Leggs to see and live the experience. Bo Leggs is a geocacher in Kansas that doesn't get to cache very often, but gets to see the world through the eyes of his Travel Bugs. As a result of taking Felix to other caches and posting pictures we have developed a pen pal relationship with Bo Leggs. It is really cool that we have become friends because of his Travel Bugs.
We would also like to mention a geocacher in New England that has logged over 1900 Travel Bugs not including Jeeps and Geocoins. His geocaching handle is Feathers and he is a legend in these parts. Feathers is a remarkable person with a great memory. He somehow seems to know the name, mission and cache location of hundreds of Travel Bugs at a time. He travels from cache to cache trying to move Travel Bugs along on their current mission. Not being selfish about how many caches he finds he revisits caches just to pick up and move TB's.
Now a quick piece of advice for gecocachers that are thinking of releasing a Travel Bug. Laminate a description of the TB's mission and attach it to the Travel Bug or put the TB in a plastic bag with a print out of what you what you would like the Travel Bug to do. This makes it easier for the finder of the cache to decide whether they should pick up the Travel Bug or leave it for the next person.
Have fun with your travel bugs and make them fun for other owners!!
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