Our First Travel Bug: Update

A while back I wrote about the turmoil of our first and only owned travel bug. At that point it had only traveled roughly 30 miles in a matter of five months. Here we are two months later even and the travel bug was up to 150 total miles. What I must mention though is that those 80 miles added on were thanks to Erin and I. We took matter into our own hands. The bug was not moving out of the cache it was in so we decided to go out and grab it. It was a good thing we did because the cache was at risk of being either muggled or destroyed. Anyways, we made the decision to move it back to Erin’s hometown. A few weeks passed and we finally drove there on a weekend to take some time off of school. We planned a very basic day of caching and in doing so also intended on replacing our travel bug. I hope you can kind of see where this is going. The bug was placed again in a semi-decent cache that was just hidden. We figured that since it was new cachers would flock to it for quite some time. We were wrong, very wrong. I came to find out the other day that it appears this cache has been muggled. There are two DNF’s in a row stating that they looked for quite some time with no success. This cache was a very simple find in the first place. The fact that they looked around for a long time only reassures me that it is gone. I was slightly worried when hiding our bug in this cache but I was hoping it was just nerves. It is kind of depressing to have your first travel bug move a grand total of 150 miles before it disappears forever. Instances like this only make me angrier with muggles and their willingness to steal something with little or no value inside. It is going to definitely take some time before we decide to take the now risk of putting out a new travel bug. If and when we do, however, we are going to make sure it is hidden in a well hidden cache that is still found quite often.