In March 2003 I released 6 Matchbox Xterras as Travel bugs with their goal being to make it to GOX 2003.



It had been a while since I had gotten any notifications on movements so I checked today see where they all were. Not good news…

#1 Traveled to 11 caches for a total of 2947 miles! Made it to Maricopa County Arizona Was removed from its last cache sometime between April 9 – June 25 2004 and never logged or placed in another cache.

Map of travels
[img]http://www.geocaching.com/map/gen_travel...89831543&Pos=10[/img]

#2 Traveled to 1 cache 38 miles from where I released it. Was in a cache near Athens GA and removed sometime between May – December 2003 and never logged or placed in another cache. Never even made it out of the State!

#3 Traveled to 1 cache 1085 miles away in Amarillo Texas. Cache was stolen a week later with the travel bug in it.

#4 Traveled to 10 caches for a grand total of 6170 miles! This one made it to GOX! Was given to Ian at the event!

Map of travels
[img]http://www.geocaching.com/map/gen_travel...89831543&Pos=10[/img]

#5 Traveled to 9 caches for a total of 1037 miles and ended up in Oxford Massachusetts in June 2004. Cache was stolen in less than a week as well.

#6 Traveled to 8 caches for total of 1599 miles. This one also made it to GOX and was given to Ian

Well I guess 2 out of 6 isn’t so bad… These all had printed on the tag “Do not pick me up unless you can place me in another cache!” Yet 2 cachers still felt the need to pick them up and keep them for themselves and never log that they removed them!