Our Only Travel Bug

Since joining the Geocaching community we have only activated one travel bug of our own. We intend to put out many more in the future, but at this point we are sitting at one. We can only hope that the luck of our future TB’s are far greater than our very first. For our first travel bug we wanted to play a little bit into our name like we try to do so often. So we looked up key chains online that had puzzle pieces on them. We eventually found the perfect one and before we knew it we had a TB ready to go into a cache. It seemed very fitting to activate our first cache at the same time so we decided to put the bug into our first cache. Now it begins to get intense. The person who was first to find on our cache ended up taking our travel bug like we expected. What we did not account for was the fact that they were going to forget they had it for about three months. At this point in time I decided to e-mail the cacher and sure enough he told me that he had forgotten that he even had it and it was buried in his glove compartment in his car. Sigh. Finally he replaced the TB back into the world where it belongs. However, he decided to place it in a cache that he owned and consisted of roughly 9 stages. It is not as bad as it sounds until you actually go out and try to accomplish this cache. At least three of the stages were incorrect information and we ended up finding this cache ourselves by using brute force. I want to back up a little real quick. He did not place our TB in this cache until we had already found it and told him that the stages were error filled. It almost seemed like he did it to spite us. I know it may seem like I am making cachers out to be rude, but this makes for a good lesson in geocaching. We ended up being the last people to find this particular cache for about the last three months now and I sent him another e-mail asking if he could move our TB. Shockingly, he obliged and moved it to another one of his caches. It is now time to play the waiting game on our travel bug that has moved a grand total of 28 miles in 6 months.