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Travel Bug Dog Tag Geoffrey, the Ultimate Geocacher

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Owner:
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Released:
Tuesday, October 9, 2001
Origin:
Illinois, United States
Recently Spotted:
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Current Goal

Make it to Tribute to Cumberland Trail , one of Markwell's out-of-state caches.

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Geoffrey, the Ultimate Geocacher

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At only 4½ inches tall, Geoffrey (complete with a GPS on a lanyard around his neck and the first Travel Bug to start in Illinois), has all of the equipment, gumption and stamina to be the Ultimate Geocacher, but not the stature. He can't seem to open the boxes - and as far as the distances, every one of our miles seems like 16 to him. Original Goals: Geoffrey wanted to see the U.S. and eventually the world, but had two specific goals in mind. First, he wanted to hide in a cache on the west side of the Continental Divide. On Monday, June 10, 2002, Rogue Ranger placed Geoffrey in West Side Serenade by Iron Chef, thus completing his first goal. Then his goal was to make it back by hook or by crook to a secondary home, in Tribute to Cumberland Trail , which happened on January 10, 2003, when the cache was visited by mosestron. But Wait!
Apparently, the evil forces of the anti-cachers placed a spy in our midst. The intrepid cacher that completed the journey on Jan 10, 2003 was a Geoffrey look-a-like. It has been verified that the guy that Azshtr found in August of 2002 in "Have Bug, Will Travel" was NOT the real Geoffrey. So when we attached a new tag and sent him on his way, he was plotting all the time to take the place of the real Geoffrey and complete his mission. But in the glory days after Geoffrey was resting back at KrooJWG's house awaiting re-release to start the journey home, the real Geoffrey turned up in Finland, found by the cacher Jouko. We have verified his identity through photo comparison. The Geoffrey from Tennessee has been charged with impersonating and intrepid cacher, and will be sent back via USPS to the owners home for a proper flogging. Meanwhile, the REAL Geoffrey will be continuing on his original mission starting in Finland.

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Discovered It 9/16/2023 MiriCach discovered it   Visit Log

TL;DR: We don't have the trackable (and feel sorry for you if it means it is still missing), but stumbled upon its discovery code.

The story: I discovered this trackable/coin when I cracked the cache "Msportis Coinlihaus der 2." and then was able to reverse-engineer some Coins/TBs of the owner Msporti as well. By pure chance / luck while testing out possibilities for this I also came across this TB/coin. We hope that it's okay that we discover it, if not, feel free to delete this log. TFTC/TFTT 😉

Discovered It 5/4/2013 Fuzzy2000 &CacheMami discovered it   Visit Log

Nachdem ich jetzt mal meine Listen und Fotos von Events und Cachetagen zusammen gepackt und geordnet habe, entdeckte ich noch den einen oder anderen nicht discoverten TB/Coin. Dies hol ich hiermit dann nach.

Weiterhin gute Reise. Vielen Dank an alle Owner und Transporteure für's Zeigen und Reisen lassen!

Euer Fuzzy2000

Write note 10/31/2008 Markwell posted a note for it   Visit Log

Since the [url=http://coord.info/GCRX8A]Parasite or Miracle cache[/url] has had numerous no finds, and the owner is MIA, I'm marking this bug as missing.

Shame since it's been around for 7 years.

Dropped Off 1/20/2008 lawdog42 placed it in Parasite or miracle? California - 622.78 miles  Visit Log
Write note 1/20/2008 lawdog42 posted a note for it   Visit Log

Geoffrey reports that he is enjoying the warmer temperatures at his new abode, Parasite, aka "Parasite or Miracle?". Great view of neighborhood softball and baseball. He's not happy about the rain, though.

Dropped Off 12/26/2007 Markwell placed it in Conrad Cache Montana - 435.2 miles  Visit Log
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 12/26/2007 Markwell grabbed it   Visit Log

Since lawdog42 indicated that he found it in Conrad Cache, I'll grab it and drop it there for pickup.

Retrieve It from a Cache 12/25/2007 lawdog42 retrieved it from Conrad Cache Montana   Visit Log

See my prior note on retrieving Geoffrey from the frozen tundra of NW Montana. Geoffrey is now in California. See next log entry.

Discovered It 12/25/2007 lawdog42 discovered it   Visit Log

Geoffrey was freezing his boots off by a rock wall in Kalispell, MT when I found him (Conrad Cache by lost-in-montan). He begged to travel with me back to California to warm-up before continuing his journey. Won't know where 'till I return, but he'll be in an area his visitors can easily catch a Grizzlies or Falcon's pro game.

Write note 12/17/2007 Markwell posted a note for it   Visit Log

Based on Bosworth's note, I'm marking the bug as missing. Shame - this was one of the FIRST bugs ever, and has been traveling for six years.

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