An Update on my TB projects

It's been a while since I've checked in on my two TB races that I started years ago. I created separate pages for each race, The Lonely TB Project and the Moving to Knoxville TB Race. I guess the first one isn't really a race, but the latter one was... and it mostly flopped. I think all of the TBs went missing within a year or maybe a little more, and one never even left Las Cruces, getting lost by the geocacher I handed it off to.  Two of the TBs actually made it to an adjacent state to the final destination, but none were ever close enough for me to go out and try to retrieve. I think I'll go ahead and retire the TB race page... it is no longer relevant.

Moving to Knoxville TB Race Stats

	Track	Hops	Status	Current Location	Interesting Notes
Fugads' Angry Bird	TB61NER	0	Missing??Released 5/7/14 to Updraft58	Las Cruces, NM	Declared missing. Don't know why Marcy never logged this one somewhere.
Dream Catcher	TB61NF1	21	Missing. last seen in the hands of champster850.	North Carolina	Climbed 5th class rock to reach MRE. Given to Combatnurse2003 and taken east to North Carolina.
Bonhomme de Quebec 2001	TB61NEZ	4	Missing? Last seen in GC1AH1B	Washington	Finally moved after months of sitting in Alamogordo.
Land of Enchantment	TB61NE3	41	??	Virginia	Released 5/10/14 at the Cadillac Ranch. Visited Reno, NV, then to East Coast somehow.
Lost GPSr:Magellan SporTrak	TB61N3V	21	Missing? Perhaps in the hands of Tayl0rr0se	Texas	Released 5/7/14 to Mr. Waldo, placed in a cache that was disabled! Then retrieved by CO. Given to Anymoore, who I met at an event last fall.
Just Drifting Along	TB61NEQ	1	Missing	El Paso, TX	Reported as no longer in the cache I dropped it in. Marked as missing.

The Lonely TB project has fared a little better, but then, I expected these TBs to last a little better since they are intentionally left in Lonely Caches. Of the 4 Lonely TBs I released, only two have moved. Two are still in ridiculously remote and difficult terrain geocaches that honestly, might never be visited again. Who knows? One got moved a little bit around the Las Cruces area but ended up in one of my complicated multi-caches there and has since settled in for a good long wait. The alst one I might actually see again, as the geocacher that picked it up is going to mail it to me. He had good intentions to put it in a really lonely cache, but his health took a turn for the worse and he hasn't been able to get it out. I appreciate that he is mailing it back to me. I have no doubt that I will find another good lonely spot for it.

Lonely TB Project

NAME	Track	Lonely Caches visited	Accumulated LCPs	Current Location	Interesting Notes
DNBOE lonely cache hunter	TB4KGCR	6	492	Prospectors: CYOA	My first of these that was actually moved to a new lonely cache
Lonely Cache Hunter: Hollow Point	TB56QGV	8	617	A22	A22 is one of the loneliest caches in NM, after 2 years it has still only been found by one person, ME!
Lonely Cache Hunter: Shark	TB4J2AN	6	269	Rattle Snake Ridge	Currently in a 5/5 cache.
The Turtle Lonely Cache Visitor	TB54TD3	9	489	With SirChrisRey	Was moved around a lot by SirChrisRey, but for health reasons he ended up mailing it back to me.

It's hard to find much satisfaction from either of these TB projects. The Knoxville race seemed like it really just didn't get anywhere. The Lonely TBs are kind of doing what I expected them to, hanging out in lonely caches for extended periods of time, but I was really expecting them to move around a little bit. I guess the Lonely caches I placed them in were a little too lonely.