[Az-Geocaching] RE: Travel Bugs revisited (Ken Akerman)

[Mark Heitowit]

You could place a not with the TB stating, please do not log a find on
the TB until I post my log, which I expect to post on  ??

Mark

ken@highpointer.com wrote:

> I wish there was a way to immediately log a cache finding and a travel
> bug as soon as you find a cache.  When I travel, I like to find
> caches, and particularly I like to move travel bugs that I find in
> caches near my home to caches as far away as possible, to put more
> miles on them.  However, when I am on the road I may not be able to
> get to a computer for several days.  This poses a problem for travel
> bugs, because someone may find the travel bug before I get a chance to
> enter it at home or at the office.
>
> For example, while in Utah I put a travel bug in a cache, and while
> hiking out I encountered the next group of local geocachers en route
> to the cache.  I told them about the travel bug that I had put in it,
> and they agreed not to log their travel bug finding until I had a
> chance to enter the travel bug when I got home, which was two days
> later.  However, if I had not encountered those geocachers on the way
> out, they would have picked up the travel bug and likely would have
> tried to enter it before I had a chance to enter it at home.
>
> What can you do about delayed updates to travel bug logs, when you are
> on the road and are away from computer access for several days or
> more?  This appears to be a flaw in the travel bug system.
>
> Ken