Travel Bug Hotel Success Story
About two years ago the local Groundspeak approver asked us if we would retrieve a geocache that had been placed in the Connecticut Welcome Center off of I-84 by a geocacher from Pennsylvania that would not be able to maintain it. We asked him for the coordinates, loaded them into our GPS, found the cache and headed back to the car. When we were driving out we saw a gate and figured we would check it out. It had a really nice trail along the Willimantic River. We said that it would be a nice place for a cache. A few months later we did some research on Travel Bug hotels. The best seemed to be along an interstate highway and were easy to find. We also noticed that some had restrictions to insure that they always had Travel Bugs to exchange. We decided to hide one at the Connecticut Welcome Center along the path we found. We decided to put a restriction on trading TB's. Here is the wording we used:
Take a Bug, Leave a Bug - Trading the same number.
If you have traded identical numbers of Travel Bugs, and can still help one or two more on their missions take more BUT please leave a minimum of 5 Travel Bugs for others to swap.
Some said - "Why did you do this, bugs will be stuck there forever?" One geocacher even called it a Travel Bug jail.
Well it is a very successful Travel Bug Hotel. Because there are always bugs to swap more people stop by. Some geocachers even stop by multiple times because it is a .15 mile walk along a nice trail and always has multiple Travel bugs to exchange. We are proud to announce that our Cache and Release Hotel has over 300 Travel Bugs logged in less than 17 months. Statistically that is a Travel Bug every 1.7 days and a vistit by a geocacher every 2.5 days. As the success of this Travel Bug Hotel quickly unfolded due to its location, scenery and traffic the negative comments stopped and the positive skyrocketed.
If you are considering hiding a Travel Bug Hotel you might want to use this model.
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If you are ever in Connecticut plan to stop by and help numerous Travel Bugs on their journey.
Mike and Barb
Take a Bug, Leave a Bug - Trading the same number.
If you have traded identical numbers of Travel Bugs, and can still help one or two more on their missions take more BUT please leave a minimum of 5 Travel Bugs for others to swap.
Some said - "Why did you do this, bugs will be stuck there forever?" One geocacher even called it a Travel Bug jail.
Well it is a very successful Travel Bug Hotel. Because there are always bugs to swap more people stop by. Some geocachers even stop by multiple times because it is a .15 mile walk along a nice trail and always has multiple Travel bugs to exchange. We are proud to announce that our Cache and Release Hotel has over 300 Travel Bugs logged in less than 17 months. Statistically that is a Travel Bug every 1.7 days and a vistit by a geocacher every 2.5 days. As the success of this Travel Bug Hotel quickly unfolded due to its location, scenery and traffic the negative comments stopped and the positive skyrocketed.
If you are considering hiding a Travel Bug Hotel you might want to use this model.
AND
If you are ever in Connecticut plan to stop by and help numerous Travel Bugs on their journey.
Mike and Barb
2 Comments:
Great story and information. I was thinking of hiding a travel bug cache soon. Thank you for the info.
Happy caching,
Brandon
Hey! I searched the logs on that gorgeous cache. Only one person (wink) used the word LAME and your cache wasn't called lame. :)
I wonder how far south Feathers would go _regularly_ to grab TBs.
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