- Did the Travel Bugs actually go on the cruise with you? = ------ Original Message ------ Received: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 05:33:34 PM EDT From: Michael Rogers <mrogers07@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Geocaching Ethics Question - As long as you just posted a note, I don't see why not. Nitpickers would argue you didn't actually find the cache, but = hey...you aren't claiming a find...just dropping TBs for mileage. I say go for it. -Michael On Mar 15, 2007, at 4:25 PM, fourfeld@xxxxxxx wrote: > - > I'm fishing for opinions. > > Cathy and I have just returned from a cruise around the southern = > tip of South America. I had some bugs and coins with me that I = > wanted to trade, or at least get them some mileage. The geocaching = > turned out to be a big disappointment. We visited four countries = > and travelled over 4000 nautical miles over fourteen days, and in = > all that time we were only able to log one virtual cache. The = > locatiions of the caches in relation to our ports of call just = > weren't conducive to geocaching. (As a side note, we substituted = > the time we would have spent looking for caches with time spent = > looking for our luggage. The airlines lost it and it didn't catch = > up with us until day nine of the cruise.) > > My question is this.... Would it be acceptable to log the bugs and = > coins in and out of the cache nearest to our ports of call so that = > they can get credit for the miles traveled even though I did not = > find the caches. In some cases the closest I got to a cache was 20 = > or 30 miles. Naturally I would log these as a note and would not = > claim a find for myself. > > Let me know what you think. > Mark > Sniper1 > > > ______________________________________________________________________ = > __ > AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's = > free from AOL at AOL.com. > > > > **************************************** > For List Info or To make _ANY_ changes, including unsubscribing = > from this > list, click -----> //www.freelists.org/list/geocaching > Missouri Caches Scheduled to be Archived http://tinyurl.com/87cqw = **************************************** For List Info or To make _ANY_ changes, including unsubscribing from thi= s list, click -----> //www.freelists.org/list/geocaching = Missouri Caches Scheduled to be Archived http://tinyurl.com/87cqw **************************************** For List Info or To make _ANY_ changes, including unsubscribing from this list, click -----> //www.freelists.org/list/geocaching Missouri Caches Scheduled to be Archived http://tinyurl.com/87cqw