Big Lick Travel Bug

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Recently Spotted:  In Colorado Golden Girl

Current GOAL:  To visit Ms. Deyenberg's 5th Grade Class at Dorothy Dalgliesh School in Picture Butte, Alberta, Canada. I hope to travel to Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, the nearest large town. My owners (elemitrt and mswecker) are twitter friends of Ms. Deyenberg!

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I am being followed and mapped by elementary students in Roanoke County and Salem City schools, Virginia, US. Please take lots of pictures of me along the way!! Thanks for helping me visit my friends in Canada! My name comes from the original name for Roanoke, VA (my starting place) -- Big Lick. When the Roanoke Valley was first settled, there were many salt marshes nearby where buffalo, elk, and deer gathered, and so did the Native Americans who hunted them. These salt marshes were also called licks, so the name for the first village in the area was "Big Lick." Later the name was changed to "Roanoke" after the Roanoke River. The name Roanoke came from the Native American word "Rawrenock" which were shells that Native Americans would wear and trade for goods.

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Tracking History (1420mi) View Map

11/13/2009 vmiman discovered Big Lick Travel Bug Colorado   [visit log] Dropped off TB at GC1HZ54 in Albuquerque NM on Sep 13, 2009.    9/6/2009 tomlaurie placed Big Lick Travel Bug in Colorado Golden Girl Colorado 994.4mi W   [visit log]    7/22/2009 tomlaurie retrieved Big Lick Travel Bug from Lincoln Trail Offset Illinois   [visit log] Heading West!    7/18/2009 kyjedis placed Big Lick Travel Bug in Lincoln Trail Offset Illinois 425.6mi W   [visit log]    6/21/2009 kyjedis retrieved Big Lick Travel Bug from GeoJoker 3: Gone But Not Forgotten Virginia   [visit log] The Kentucky Jedi's Geocaching team decided to do our first bit of hiking since moving to Roanoke a couple weeks ago. We'll do our best to move this travel bug a little farther north in the next couple weeks. Great idea for school fun. We'll take a picture or two on the way.    5/29/2009 elemitrt placed Big Lick Travel Bug in GeoJoker 3: Gone But Not Forgotten Virginia   [visit log] Dropping this geobug off at one of the most famous attractions for Roanoke, VA....the Roanoke Star!! Thanks mswecker for the pics! [This entry was edited by elemitrt on Wednesday, June 03, 2009 at 6:42:56 AM.]