Personally, I do not think of TBs as of object
for trade. The sole intent of a TB is to travel. I treat finding a TB as I
do finding a cache. I've taken several bugs out of a single cache and I've
returned to a cache that I've visited before to retrieve a TB. Likewise, I will
dropped several TBs of at single cache and I will revisit a cache to just to
drop of a TB. I always note at the cache what I have done in the logbook and on
the webpage. I think finding a TB is like logging a first find at a cache. Early
bird gets the worm type of thing. Nobody complains when a single cacher
bags several first finds the same day. If one feels that one must trade TBs, how does one acquire ones first
TB?
I can see why some do not like this
behavior. There have been many times that I've gone for a cache hoping to grab a
TB, only to have just missed it by an hour. Oh, well. I am bummed for
about 1 msec and start digging for the log. To me that is part of the
fun! It is like opening a log book hoping to be the first finder only to find a
fellow cachers name in it (Uhmmm, I won't mention any names). Even more fun!
-Rob (Wily Javelina)
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 12:03
PM
Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Revisiting
caches over and over to get a TB?
Hi all IFISHAZ here,
Ok, well I feel this is a subject
that needs some public debate (if it has had debate before, sorry it was
before I became a geocacher). What is your (other cachers) feelings on
geocachers returning to caches (sometimes very repeatedly) they have found
previously just to get a Travel Bug? I personally think it is wrong, once you
have found a cache there is no fun / adventure / difficulty, to keep going
back to it. Also by returning to a cache you know where it is to get a TB, you
cut chances of a new visitor to that cache having a legitimate find of a TB.
Also it cuts down potential new visitors to a cache who may have went looking
for a bug, but it is gone because a cacher who has been there before takes it.
I think that finding geocaches should be the main goal and if you get a TB
when you find a cache, cool bonus. Not find geocaches so you can locate them
and rush straight to them when a TB has been placed and grab it.
Just my
opinion, IFISHAZ.