Trackables - Geocoins and Travel Bugs

Trackables are items that you own and you can put into caches for others to find and move on. They can be just for random travel or can have specific goals.  There are severaldifferent types, the most common being Travel Bugs and Geocoins. They are identified by a number - which may be engraved on them or on a 'tag'attached to the item. Don't confuse trackables with normal 'swaps' in a cache. You can't keep trackables - always move them along if you can.
If you take a trackable you do not have to leave a 'swap' for it; if you leave a trackable you shouldn't take a 'swap'.

	Trackables home page and FAQ
	UK specific forum thread about geocoins, getting them made, designs and where to buy
	Main forum for geocoins and travel bugs
	Where to buy Geocoins in the UK
	Travel bug 'hotels' and 'prisons'

Travel bug 'hotels' and 'prisons'

There are many caches created as hotel's for trackables to make it easy for people to move them around. They are often near major road junctions or motorways. Some of these 'hotels' have restrictions placed on the movements of trackables. For example you may not be allowed to remove all the trackables or if you take one you must replace it with another and so on. Trackables are 'free spirits' and on missions set by their owners. By putting these restrictions on the cache it makes it 'prison'. These restrictions are not allowed and reviewers will ask for them to be removed from the cache description before the cache can be published.

This forum post (from Eartha, the trackable forum moderator) explains this

Examples of a travel bug and geocoin
The Blorenges "The Roamin Roman" travel bug	Travel Bug Tag	Mrs B's Cornish Geocoin