Someone kidnapped my Devil Ducky

Submitted by RayDar on Fri, 02/15/2008 - 11:28.

I like road trips.

One of the many activities afforded on a road trip is the transportation of geocaching.com Travel Bugs. It's fun to find a bug and move it hundreds, perhaps thousands, of miles to another cache. Some bugs have a goal destination and it can be quite satisfying to help out.

A few road trips ago, when I was particularly far from home, I released my first (and to date only) travel bug. It was a cute small red rubber ducky with horns, which I named "Seattle Devil Ducky". It started in Florida with the goal to make it to Seattle.

But alas, my little ducky made it as far as Missouri and was never heard from again. He lived out in the wild for only two months.

I haven't tried again.

I can commiserate

Submitted by Jaroslav Benkovsky on Fri, 04/25/2008 - 00:36.

I can commiserate, my Tux TB has ended in a never-published cache on Corsica :(. But that's a risk with TB and GC, you have to be prepared to see them lost, stolen, mutilated and neglected ...

Devil Ducky Update

Submitted by RayDar on Wed, 03/12/2008 - 17:57.

My Devil Ducky went 2.5 years without any comments from geocaching members. Then, a couple of days ago, someone left the rather cryptic message "This is NOT in the Tee Time cache that it currently says it is residing in."

I am guessing that this means that he has been to the Tee Time cache (Devil Ducky's last known location) and the travel bug was not there. I marked it as missing. Goodbye Devil Ducky, wherever you are.

((RayDar))

Hi, Sorry for appearing

Submitted by David Fisher on Sun, 04/27/2008 - 19:37.

Hi,

Sorry for appearing dumb...

But in simple English would you explain to me what you are talking about.

Thanks,

David.

Travel Bugs

Submitted by RayDar on Sun, 04/27/2008 - 19:55.

geocaching.com has a feature called Travel Bugs. The idea is that people place trackable items (tracking is provided by a numbered badge that is purchased from geocaching.com) into geocaches. During the course of geocaching, people find these Travel Bugs and move them to other caches. The owner of the Travel Bug can follow its travels on the geocaching.com website (provided people log where they drop it off).

I have helped move other people's Travel Bugs. I started my first bug when I was on vacation thousands of miles from home. My bug was a rubber duck attached to a small $5 camera (so that people who move it around could take a picture for me to see when I retrieve the bug one day). But alas, someone decided to keep my ducky instead of moving it to another cache.

I hope that helps clear things up.

((RayDar))