09/03/2015 By Kabutroid
Ahhh... at long, long last, I'm finally able to drop off some travelbugs that have been kicking around for way too long. I've been feeling kinda bad about those... my brother had 'em, had dropped out of geocaching for a while, mailed 'em to me, and then they were rotting in my backpacking bag since September. Hell, at this point, they've been thought missing since 2009! I posted a note in them when they showed up in the mail, but... y'know, still... it's been months.
So let's go drop those suckers in a geocache! I had just finished receiving a brand new DNF nearby, but really wanted to drop those travelbugs off. I was in the forest, I had a GPS (albeit with month or two old pocket queries), and I had the travelbugs. It had to be done. So off I tromped.
A few hundred meters of semi-bushwhacking (although the forest is actually quite open with little underbrush, so little to no whacking was required. It was actually a rather pleasant stroll), semi-trail-following, and I soon found myself vaguely close to ground zero. Walking in, I was greeted with a far easier to find geocache than the one I had just left 
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So, having located the geocache in question, I quickly set about retrieving it. That trivial task out of the way, I popped it open and hoped to see room for several travelling coins. To my pleasure, there indeed was. I gave the container a good digging-through, shook out as much water as I could, got rid of what I thought was a mushroom growing in there, but just turned out to be a soggy bandaid (not entirely sure which is worse, but I'm pretty sure this one was), and signed up the logbook. There's several soggy paper lumps at the bottom of the cup that make up the previous logbook, I imagine. It looks like everyone's currently signing the little logbook inside the cache-in-a-cache, which works out well enough for now. Even that container is missing the rubber gasket that should normally come with it, but that shouldn't be an issue unless the cup somehow manages to entirely fill with water... which given the nature of the cache is somewhat unlikely.
So, having dropped in a chainmail ball and the assorted travelbugs, I put the cache back in its intended hiding spot (man, how did you even GET it there to begin with?), and left the area a happy man. I was back in the geocaching game somewhat, had managed to drop off some travelbugs that have been missing for almost 6 years now, and go home feeling somewhat more accomplished than when I left.
It's been a good day 
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