And So It Goes. This TB traveled over 12,000 miles/20,000 kilometers, so I suppose that we can't complain too much that this has vanished from a cache in Germany. Still, it's kind of disappointing. It got very close to Paris on several occasions, but never quite made it :-( And we were at an event just this past Saturday at which we praised European cachers for not being thieves, and being careful to keep travelers moving. That still holds, in general, but I guess every barrel has one bad apple.
In any event, we are retrieving this TB, and will give it a nice burial in an archived cache of ours near home. And who knows? Maybe it'll turn up again, some day. We can hope.