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 -----
From:
IFISHAZ@aol.com
To:
listserv@azgeocaching.com
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.
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