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WhereRWe?
01-09-2005, 10:20 AM
I just had one of my TB's dropped in the Canary Islands off the coast of North Africa, and I thought that was so cool!

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=c19e8e85-07e2-40e4-87ae-1c7d48ea1f86

Anyone else got any good bug tales? Any high mileage or interesting locations?

tat
01-09-2005, 08:45 PM
Here is a quote from that log:


"Today this TB was almost a threat when we found him in Altrheinpfad-Cache. Because we had "TB Pinchers The Travel Lobster" with us. This TB is also from Maine and its current goal is to 'get as far from Maine and those darn Tourists as possible'. Well, we moved it almost 2.000 Miles farther away from Maine (State) by taking it from N 27 W 13 to N 48 E 8 to endanger him here in good old Germany by meeting TB Maine ... unbelievable."

I moved Pinchers from a mountain top in Maine to Ireland. He spent quite a lot of time in a pub.
Pinchers is still in Germany. Wouldn't it be cool to move him again while I'm there in May?


If I get a chance, I'll post a couple of others.

WhereRWe?
01-10-2005, 07:49 AM
I saw this, and yes, it must have been a coincidence.

After you left Pincers in Ireland, it went to Spain and then to Germany,where it is now.

It's amazing how many people in Europe also make log entries in English as well as German/Spanish/etc.

tat
01-10-2005, 08:43 PM
I felt bad about keeping this bug so long, so I wrote a note to the owner. It is still the biggest TB I've come across. He posted it: http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=37692

tat
01-10-2005, 08:48 PM
Maine lobster makes a good TB. The other lobster TB I've found is in South Australia. Hope they don't eat it! What are the chances the two will meet?

WhereRWe?
01-10-2005, 09:21 PM
[QUOTE=tat]I felt bad about keeping this bug so long, so I wrote a note to the owner. It is still the biggest TB I've come across. He posted it: http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=37692[/QUOTE

Yes, but if you'll notice, someone else has had it since July 2004!

Sheesh!

:confused:

WhereRWe?
01-13-2005, 07:02 PM
Cameoooooo - if you need ideas for "BIG" travel bugs, here are some ideas:

http://www.todayscacher.com/2005/jan/tb2.asp

Mainiac1957
01-13-2005, 07:59 PM
Now those jumbo sized TB's are just a little disurbing. I don't quite know what their owners were thinking (or smoking) when they dreamed them up. To each his or her own I guess.

WhereRWe?
01-13-2005, 08:09 PM
And I know that there is more than 1 "cinder block TB" out there. Maybe we should put one "in" Brdad's Battleship cache. Make it sporting for those that have trouble finding it! LOL :p

Cache Maine
01-13-2005, 09:28 PM
Cameoooooo - if you need ideas for "BIG" travel bugs, here are some ideas:

http://www.todayscacher.com/2005/jan/tb2.asp
I don't get it. Care to explain?

Sudonim
01-14-2005, 12:53 AM
Maybe the challange is to find another cache that you can fit the bug into, or hide close to the cache?

WhereRWe?
01-14-2005, 08:59 AM
I don't get it. Care to explain?

Well, you mentioned one TB that was "the biggest TB I've come across", so I thought that you might like to see examples of other "big" bugs! :D

WhereRWe?
01-14-2005, 09:01 AM
Maybe the challange is to find another cache that you can fit the bug into, or hide close to the cache?

Well, I saw one listing for a cinder block TB that was at the time located in the llaundry chute (trash chute?) of an apartment building. Not wsure where the associated cache was! LOL!

Trail Prowlers
01-14-2005, 04:18 PM
Our Brewpub Travel Bug (http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=25531) has travelled from Maine, to Colorado, over to Hawaii, back to the US heartland, and has now been kicking around in Sweden for a while.

WhereRWe?
01-14-2005, 04:34 PM
Wow! Over 24,00 miles on it. Cool! :D

drbugman
02-12-2005, 05:43 PM
Our Brewpub Travel Bug (http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=25531) has travelled from Maine, to Colorado, over to Hawaii, back to the US heartland, and has now been kicking around in Sweden for a while.
That's an incredible idea for a travel bug! Mind if I do something similar???

WhereRWe?
02-12-2005, 05:54 PM
That's an incredible idea for a travel bug! Mind if I do something similar???

Bugman - if you like brewpubs like we do (and we've vivited MANY), you might want to visit the Moosehead Brewery in St. John, New Brunswick. Probably the best brewery tour we've ever been on. And at the end, you get to sample ANY and/or ALL of their 10 products.

If you visit in summer, you'd best make reservations for the tour, and the frequent cruise ship visits fill up the tours REAL fast.

Mainiac1957
02-12-2005, 06:12 PM
Brewery tours...I'm there,count me in. ;)

WhereRWe?
02-12-2005, 06:14 PM
Since RULOST2? and I are planning a geocaching vacation to Nova Scotia this summer, you can bet that the Alexander Keith's Brewery in Halifax is on our agenda! :)

parmachenee
02-12-2005, 08:20 PM
Brewery tours...I'm there,count me in. ;)

What a great idea for a cache event!! I may have an idea for a May event to kick off the summer caching frenzy. :D

Cache Maine
02-12-2005, 08:26 PM
How about a private tour of Winterport Winery?

drbugman
02-13-2005, 10:24 AM
Bugman - if you like brewpubs like we do (and we've vivited MANY), you might want to visit the Moosehead Brewery in St. John, New Brunswick. Probably the best brewery tour we've ever been on. And at the end, you get to sample ANY and/or ALL of their 10 products.

If you visit in summer, you'd best make reservations for the tour, and the frequent cruise ship visits fill up the tours REAL fast.

Thanks for the tip!

Cache Maine
02-13-2005, 05:26 PM
Found out my travel bug, The Craven Ride was picked up by a cacher that was supposed to have breakfast with Ricky this morning. The TB's mission is to be autographed by him. With Daytona and the truck races starting just around the corner, this is very exciting! http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=81868

Next thing is if it in fact does get autographed, I need to trust in my fellow cachers from there back to Maine in order to get it home safely! Only time will tell.

Team2hunt
02-13-2005, 06:18 PM
My navigator and I will be in Fla in April. We will certainly keep our eyes open to see if it gets dropped off there.:cool:

Diggler
04-01-2005, 11:15 AM
I don't remember the specifics of the coolest travel bug I had ever seen, but I do remember seing a photo of him on the Geocaching.com website, and it was taken from the rear window of an airforce refueling jet as it was refueling a stealth bomber. The travel bug was siting on the window sill facing the refueler as he operated the controls. That's some serious travel-bugging.