I'm in San Fran on biz this week, talked a fellow coworker into trying "Something Fishy" today with me during lunch. We're in the heart of the financial district, and the cache is on a pier on the Embarcadero. Based on our fairly detailed hotel map, we decide to shortcut down to this vietnamese joint we've heard about and then hop across the street/Embarcadero to the cache.

So we start walking south on Beale Street towards the Bay Bridge (I-80) and the restaurant. We get to the bridge - and there's a fence with razor wire on top blocking the entire street and sidewalk! We climb up on a dumpster and look and see a similiar situation on the next street down. Evidently the work they're doing on the bridge above precludes people from walking/driving below for a few blocks.

Dejected, we decided it would take too long to "go the long way around" this blockage, and head back towards work and a different lunch spot (had a killer burger at least).

Grrr. Hate it when that happens. Maybe we'll get a shot at it at lunch tomorrow.

That does stink. You never know, but there might be a cache out there by some cacher you may recognize, but I hear he does not always follow the instructions on the cache pages when he hunts them. Have fun in the bay area. It is a nice place to visit, but I could not afford to live there.

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Originally posted by mtn-man:
That does stink. You never know, but there might be a http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=38283 out there by some cacher you may recognize, but I hear he does not always follow the instructions on the cache pages when he hunts them. Have fun in the bay area. It is a nice place to visit, but I could not afford to live th
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Wish I could try that one, but after all the walking we've been doing (no rental car), not sure I wanna make THAT sort of hike. Cool concept though. I'll have to figure out what it is.

Just as a followup, wasn't able to get back to the cache and plant the bug I picked up here in Georgia. Didn't have the time to scoot out of work Thursday, not to mention it was raining like a... well, it was raining. Suffice to say this TB will be repositioned in GA with a postcard of it's travels.

One question though: Can I "claim" a "put/get" at the cache I *tried* to get it to? Or is that frowned upon? This bug did major miles - ATL to SFO and back - in my carry-on/carry-about. It's got two postcards to boot.

Mm... I think I'll ask the owners about that one now that I think about it.

I'd say cache no, bug, yes. Log the bug's travels on it's page as having been placed, then "re-take" it from the cache in a separate log and describe it's trip (I think you can do this with a travel bug...I usually don't bother with them)

Actually I would say no. If you didn't find the cache, then the bug did not either. Even if the bug made a long journey it did not hit the cache. It would skew the map of the bugs travels. Personally I would think the bug has to find the cache. I have taken a bug on a trip once but did not get to place it. I just put it in a cache in GA.

Welp, I did both.

Based on emailcorrespondence with the bugs' owner, I "stashed" the TB as a note, not a find; and then "found" it. So it was a no-cache-find-but-well-travelled-bug. Had it on me the entire time, so...

That ends that. Did what I did, TB's owners said "do it", so what else can I say.