[GeoStL] Re: Travel Bug etiquette
- From: Paul Konopacki <konopapw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 00:15:33 -0500
It has become very aparent to me how important it is
to include a printed copy of the goal of the travel bug
WITH the travel bug.
Not everyone knows that the goal of a travel bug
is not just to move it around a lot, from cache to cache.
Why should we have to take a travel bug home to see
what it's goal is, just to find out we can't help it reach
that goal.
Another issue with travel bugs that I have noticed is that
the dogtag isn't always securely attached to the travel
bug object. I have seen caches where there is a dogtag
not attached to anything. I'm sure it was attached to
something in the cache, at one time.
I have seem the travel bug 'copy' dogtag put in a cache.
That was obviously a mistake. Those copies are for
the dogtag purchaser to keep, so they have a record of
the bug's identification.
Bill Wilson wrote:
> Laura DeWeese wrote:
>
> > As long as bringing them here does not go against the goal of the
> > travel bug, I would think it would be fine. (Here's an example. On
> > the webpage for a certain travel bug, it specifically said it wants to
> > go west, and then somebody took it several thousand miles east. They
> > even said in their log, "He is travelling East and not West, but I'm
> > sure that will be OK.")
>
> I can really relate. I have one travel bug out there and people keep
> taking it South instead of East. It's trying to get to Virginia and
> it's almost to Tennessee right now.
>
> That's not so bad, but I found one here that started back East and
> wanted to go to Arizona. So I took it to San Antonio, heading in the
> right direction anyway. Next person took it back East to Houston.
> And the next person took it to CANADA. Some people's kids. ;-)
>
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