Love Bug-Lubbock Silver 2-ply Wood

I maintain records on my trackables. They have the goal to circulate more than five years and to be moved by at least 25 cachers. That is a target rate of five drops per year for five years, or a drop every 73 days. The average drop rate of my trackables in the US is 124 days, in Europe it is 71 days. As of 15-Dec-24 this trackable had survived for 3.4 years and had been moved by 6 cachers, for an average drop every 204 days, or 1.8 drops per year. Please keep it moving, then drop it in a safe place!

No permission is needed to leave the U.S. While in the U.S., please drop it at an event, in a Premium Member only OR a rural cache near a busy trail or road. Do not place it in an urban, non-premium cache. Transport the bug in the original plastic bag for as long as the bag lasts; the bag keeps the trackable clean and dry, protects the number and prevents tangling with other items. Otherwise, take the trackable anywhere you wish.

This is one of a series of heart-shaped items obtained from different places and converted into travel bugs. They are named either for their place of origin or for Texas Panhandle-South Plains towns with interesting names or histories. Some of the text might be mine, but most of it is lifted from the Online Handbook of Texas.

The city and county are named for T. S. Lubbock, a South Carolinian who was both a veteran of the Texas War of Independence and a Cavalry Officer with Terry's Rangers of the Confederacy in the Civil War.

It is the home town of Buddy Holly and the location of Lubbock Christian University and Texas Tech University.