Travel Bug Exchange Traditional Cache
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PLEASE respect the theme of this cache. Take a travel bug, take two, but please, please leave an equal number in EXCHANGE.
Located in a White Oak Creek Wildlife Management area. A small open gate is the start of a barely visible trail into this many thousand acre area. Plenty of parking area off a major US highway. Plenty of woods for your four legged friends to roam, with a creek and landing nearby, if they would like to swim, as our Saddie always does.
OK, here is the story. Merlin and Shado enjoy collecting travel bugs and dropping them off during our travels. Most are carried hundreds or thousands of miles before being released. We recently returned from Virgina where we dropped off a number of travelers from Texas and also gathered up a bunch, which we intended to take up the east coast to Canada and out west to Washington. However, our new work assignment will take us to the other side of the world for a number of months and now we have all these travel bugs. So a plan was hatched to create the Exchange. We've chosen a location that is near a major E/W Interstate and a major N/S US highway. A couple of other geocachers have contributed their bugs to this project. So if you enjoy travel bugs as much as we, and have one of the little travelers you would like to exchange for another, here is your opportunity.......
We ask that you PLEASE honor the theme of this cache and EXCHANGE ONLY TRAVEL BUGS FOR TRAVEL BUGS. Take one and leave one, take two, leave two, etc,etc, and please, PLEASE log them in. As we travel, we've seen an increasing problem of travel bugs "disappearing", never to be seen or heard from again. So if you don't know what a travel bug is or what to do with it, ask or read about them on the GEOCACHING.COM webpage.
OH if you don't have a travel bug to exchange but want to seek and log this cache, we've added a seperate bag of special non-bug items, feel free to take one of these as a reward for your effort.
As you see by the photo, we use at least two GPS units to get as accurate a reading as possible. Due to the heavy woods. your signal may be a bit tricky. So we visited the site on two different days with two units each time and averaged.
Starting it off with the following travel bugs:
1. Pico Taco
2. Duong: Son of the metal bugs
3. Vegas Luv Bug
4. Mr. Happy
5. Area 51 Traveler
6. Dewey the Owl
7. Stuart
8. King of Clubs
9. 1973 Bug Bus Key
10. Racergeek
11. Buzzin Bug
12. Ghost 5
13. Texas Wooden Nickle
14. Texas Mardi Gras
A large Ammo can is hidden and attached at the base of a large tree only about 100 yards into the woods. The container has a short chain to keep the wild hogs (that roam the area at night), or the occasional flood from carrying it away.
Additional Hints
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