I've had direct contact with about a dozen official travel bugs or
unofficial travelers in the past six months. Of those about 50% have gone
interstate within a couple weeks. There are a few casual cachers who will
get one and hold it for weeks, but that is the exception. Usually they are
picked up and placed fairly quickly.
For most travelers their movment pattern and time frame is unimportant.
Courage is a special case. it has a very specific destination and a time
limit. I personally think it would be interesting to see how this traveler
moves on its own without resorting to mail so soon. There is a risk
associated with this because central Arizona is a bit of an island. However,
given the purpose of this traveler, it might move fairly fast. People are
already making a special effort to grab it in this area.
Jerry
Team Cache-Quest
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bell, Robert" <
Robert.Bell@eclipsys.com>
To: "'Geocaching List Serv'" <
az-geocaching@listserv.snaptek.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 8:35 AM
Subject: FW: [Az-Geocaching] Courage
> I agree with Stephen - bugs seems to sort of stagnate around
> the area. I took two bugs to Boston last week, and looked but didn't
> have the oppurtunity to bring any back. I didn't know mailing was
> not allowed, but I can understand it. Seems like we need an underground
> bug railroad...? I go back east frequently, but not again until March.
>
> To this end, I am finishing a travel bug preferred cache that I hope to
> have out in the next two weeks, if not earlier. My idea was to make
> a cache that would be frequented by bugs, allowing for greater exchange
> and dispersals. The cache location would be conducive to this end as
well.
>
> Any suggestions? I like the travel bug concept, but it seems that a
> lot of them tend to "island" out, as Stephen suggested.
>
> Rob (Team CHUMP)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wolfb8 [mailto:wolfb8@qwest.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 8:09
> To: az-geocaching@listserv.snaptek.com
> Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Courage
>
>
> May you should read the travler list on geocaching .com Mailing is not
> allowed
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen Drake" <srdrake@primenet.com>
> To: "Geocaching Listserv" <az-geocaching@listserv.snaptek.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 7:31 AM
> Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Courage
>
>
> > I'm in the possession of Courage. As you probably know, Courage has a
> > goal to get to NYC in relatively short time (by June I believe).
> >
> > I believe the Phoenix area to be an island of sorts and it's hard for
> > something to leave the area. Just to get Courage east of the
> > Mississippi River requires several people willing to move it 300+
> > miles. I can easily see Courage just bouncing around between
> > Phoenix-area caches until someone happens upon it just before a trip to
> > the east. I'd like to see Courage get east of the Mississippi River
> > where civilization is much closer together and it'll be much easier for
> > it to move in small cache hops towards NYC.
> >
> > My plan at the moment is to mail Courage to my father this weekend so he
> > can put it into a cache in South Carolina.
> >
> > If there's anyone on this listserv who' going east in the very near-term
> > who would like to carry Courage to a cache in the Eastern or Central
> > time zones, I'd be more than happy to set up a temporary private cache
> > (email you the coordinates) so you can get it before your travels east.
> >
> > -srdrake
> >
> >
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