A few days ago when someone had asked the list whether they were wasting their money on Travel Bugs...I replied that one of our TB's that had over 17,000 had recently come up missing.

It was dropped off in the I-70 Palisades Cache (GCG2HA) around Grand Junction, CO on Jun 23rd. I noticed that some people had visited the cache after that and had e-mailed one with 850 finds and asked if he had seen this Liberty Bell TB...he replied no, and that was around July 6th. Someone had picked up the TB and not logged it.

I was hopeful that the TB would show up someplace, and I got notification today that it did. The person who found it logged it out of the cache in CO, but said that he had actually found it in Nebraska. Looking at his logs, I believe he found it was a cache called Westbound (GCECBB), just outside of Lincoln, NE. So someone, (don't know who), gave it an ~ 650 mile ride. In the log, the finder said he saw the TB sitting outside the cache box.

Point is, I've learned not to give up on TB's. This is the 3rd time this one has "disappeared"...only to turn up again. And after logging over 17,000 miles, I'm glad that it will continue its travels. I don't know why people take Travel Bugs and don't log them, then dump them somewhere and again not logging it. Seems when they do this they are at least making a few Geocaching finds, and should be able to navigate enough to realize what TB's are and log them proplerly. But for some reason it seems that some people don't log them. In other recent TB subject matter that has also been discussed so I won't go into detail other than that it happens, and fairly often.

I didn't see any commonality in the teams that logged both caches. I guess there are people out there who don't log their finds either. That's ok with me, there's really nothing that says people have to log their finds on the site, and they shouldn't have to - plus I would say there's no way to police that anyway. However, if that's the case, they really shouldn't be taking Travel Bugs, in my opinion anyway...the goal of a TB IS to be logged. But, I'm glad whoever had taken our TB at least put it back into the game.