One of my biggest gripes with Travel Bugs is when someone stops by a cache, picks it up and doesn't add a note, the date, and the time in the log book when they took it - then doesn't get to a computer to record the information for several days. How many of us have gone to a cache to pick up a TB only to find it missing - and then watch the cache page for several days wondering what happened to the bug? I'm sure many of us have burned a lot of gas chasing these missing TBs.
Rand
----- Original Message -----
From: RAND HARDIN
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 5:12 PM
To:
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Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] RE: Travel Bugs revisited (Ken Akerman)
Ken,
About the only way to solve this problem is not placing a Travel Bug in a cache unless you know that you can get to a computer to log it within a reasonable time.
Rand
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From:
ken@highpointer.com
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 5:03 PM
To:
az-geocaching@listserv.azgeocaching.com
Subject: [Az-Geocaching] RE: Travel Bugs revisited (Ken Akerman)
I wish there was a way to immediately log a cache finding and a travel bug as soon as you find a cache. When I travel, I like to find caches, and particularly I like to move travel bugs that I find in caches near my home to caches as far away as possible, to put more miles on them. However, when I am on the road I may not be able to get to a computer for several days. This poses a problem for travel bugs, because someone may find the travel bug before I get a chance to enter it at home or at the office.
For example, while in Utah I put a travel bug in a cache, and while hiking out I encountered the next group of local geocachers en route to the cache. I told them about the travel bug that I had put in it, and they agreed not to log their travel bug finding until I had a chance to enter the travel bug when I got home, which was two days later. However, if I had not encountered those geocachers on the way out, they would have picked up the travel bug and likely would have tried to enter it before I had a chance to enter it at home.
What can you do about delayed updates to travel bug logs, when you are on the road and are away from computer access for several days or more? This appears to be a flaw in the travel bug system.
Ken
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