While regular doors on buildings are a staple of Thursday Doors, I have also liked varying the theme a bit, especially to include doors on other structures, such as trucks, little free libraries, electrical boxes, or porta potties. Or geocaches. Germany is the place for elaborate geocaches, in places and containers and behind doors you might never expect.
For example, what would you think of if you saw this box?
It looks electrical, and like something you should avoid, right?
Well, in fact, it’s a geocache. Something called a “Travel Bug Hotel.” Travel Bugs are items with a tracking code attached that you can follow online on the geocaching site.People pick them up and drop them off, and they travel from cache to cache. Sometimes they have a goal, a specific place they want to get to. In some cities people set up large caches that can hold many travel bugs at once for drop-off and exchange. These are known as Travel Bug hotels.
Open this door, and this is what you see:
No danger of electrocution, but unfortunately there were not as many travel bugs as we hoped. The owner appears to have been expecting more too. We dropped one off and took one. And then visited more hotels!
Thursday Doors is a weekly feature allowing door lovers to come together to admire and share their favorite door photos from around the world. Feel free to join in on the fun by creating your own Thursday Doors post and then sharing it, between Thursday morning and Saturday noon (North American Eastern Time), on the linky list at Norm 2.0’s blog.
Follow my trip with this and previous posts:
A Thousand Finds 
What a fascinating hobby (sport?). I’d love to do that but I don’t get around as such, only from Italy to Slovenia and back. But I’d love the thrill of searching for these hotels. Fun!
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What a trip! That is so interesting! Was that on private property?
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No, it didn’t seem like it. It was kind of on the side of the road.
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This all sound like a lot of fun and a good excuse to get outside and be active.
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That is definitely true and it’s how it’s marketed, especially to families. But there’s also a subgroup of people that collects different kinds of caches, different levels of difficulty, all the caches in a certain area, one in all 50 states, etc. I’m not as into that but my husband is. Maybe it’s like going on a doorscursion in every city you go to. Some people find caches in every city.
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Hmmm.. a victim of its own success at appearing to be something dangerous.
Would probably be better for him to have ‘Do NOT open this door’ on the front. 😉
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That’s a good point. The camo is too good!
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wow – I thought it meant danger- and maybe others do too and the hotel bug travelers skip it? nice post for Thursday Doors
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Geocachers are used to this kind of thing. A bigger problem is caches getting “muggled,” or taken away by non-cachers who think they are trash. At least this one is left alone.
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new word for me “muggled” and sad that this happens
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