Read Thread: My first!
My first!
Board: Hitchhikers, Cooties, and Fleas
May 30, 2008 3:54pm
Yeah! Set free my first hitch hiker. How exciting.
Re: My first!
Board: Hitchhikers, Cooties, and Fleas
Reply to: #232311 by vee-dub bug
May 30, 2008 5:02pm
Bon voyage! May it travel far and wide and may you hear back about it's travels every step of the way.
Lone R
Re: My first!
Board: Hitchhikers, Cooties, and Fleas
Reply to: #232311 by vee-dub bug
Jun 1, 2008 3:37am
Congrats!
My wife and I are very new to this game (letterboxing now for all of 20 days) and we just found our first HH yesterday! It was so cool to find a "bonus" inside another box. I hope your HH travels far and wide and you are able to track it journeys.
Opening the box
reveals a delightful gift
hitchhiker inside!
haiku4u
Re: My first!
Board: Hitchhikers, Cooties, and Fleas
Reply to: #232871 by haiku4u
Jun 1, 2008 5:06am
What a cool haiku!
Dash
Dash
Re: My first!
Board: Hitchhikers, Cooties, and Fleas
Reply to: #232871 by haiku4u
Jun 1, 2008 10:33am
thanks! I love finding hitch hikers. Reminds me of finding the prize in a crakerjack box.
Re: My first!
Board: Hitchhikers, Cooties, and Fleas
Reply to: #233012 by vee-dub bug
Jun 1, 2008 5:15pm
ones inside of cereal boxes too!!! very neat 8]
i love how the hitcher is a big surprise to the next finder,
and...
they could take it, or leave it
-*rpb*-
Re: My first!
Board: Hitchhikers, Cooties, and Fleas
Reply to: #233220 by recycledpaperbags
Jun 1, 2008 6:59pm
This is something that geocaching doesn't match. They have travel bugs, but you know they are there in advance because they're listed on the cache sheet. HH's are a complete surprise, no way to know there's one in the box until you open it. That is a really neat feature.
Re: My first!
Board: Hitchhikers, Cooties, and Fleas
Reply to: #233275 by Kirbert
Jun 1, 2008 8:05pm
As a travelbug owner that's been around the world and is still travelling (since 2002) I love to know where it has been dropped off. The other advantage to TB owners is if the unfortunate should happen and a cache that is holding the TB goes missing then the TB owner knows that unfortunately their bug is gone. There's closure.
Today I went to check on one of my letterboxes. It is definitely gone. If there was a hitchhiker in the box I will never know and unfortunately neither will the HH owner. If the HH was reported to be in the box then I could email the owner to tell them the unfortunate news and to stop them wondering for years if they're letterbox is still travelling and when they'll hear from it next.