Yeah! Set free my first hitch hiker. How exciting.

Yeah! Set free my first hitch hiker. How exciting.

Bon voyage! May it travel far and wide and may you hear back about it's travels every step of the way.

Lone R

Yeah! Set free my first hitch hiker. How exciting.

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

What a cool haiku!

Dash

thanks! I love finding hitch hikers. Reminds me of finding the prize in a crakerjack box.

Reminds me of finding the prize in a crakerjack box.

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*-

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i love how the hitcher is a big surprise to the next finder...

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.

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.

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.