We would like to thank all geocachers who helped Berti on his journey and wrote so many nice logs and added pictures!
In the following list you find the states Berti visited during the race and the name of the geocacher who took him into this state first (in green). After the end of the race (logs submitted before midnight 7/5/2005 were accepted), Berti visited some additional states (in blue):
- Alabama: drfred 8/6/2004
- Alaska
- Arizona: tobsas 5/3/2007
- Arkansas
- California: BCR 3/12/2005
- Colorado: Mountain_Wanderer 5/9/2004
- Connecticut: WaldenRun 5/5/2004
- Delaware
- Florida: G-raaf 3/18/2005
- Georgia: Team Happyspider 8/30/2004
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois: Mountain_Wanderer 5/12/2004
- Indiana: GA Cacher 10/18/2004
- Iowa: Mountain_Wanderer 5/11/2004
- Kansas: Mountain_Wanderer 5/10/2004
- Kentucky: GA Cacher 10/20/2004
- Louisiana
- Maine: Mountain_Wanderer 5/23/2004
- Maryland: Zekester & Simon 3/30/2008
- Massachusetts: WaldenRun 5/3/2004
- Michigan: GA Cacher 10/18/2004
- Minnesota: Packerbacker78 4/9/2005
- Mississippi
- Missouri: Mountain_Wanderer 5/11/2004
- Montana
- Nebraska: miss.vash 5/1/2005
- Nevada: tobsas 3/11/2006
- New Hampshire: Mountain_Wanderer 5/16/2004
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York: Mountain_Wanderer 5/14/2004
- North Carolina: Red Wolf Team 6/17/2004
- North Dakota: Zekester & Simon 7/26/2008
- Ohio: Mountain_Wanderer 5/13/2004
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania: Mountain_Wanderer 5/13/2004
- Rhode Island: WaldenRun 5/5/2004
- South Carolina: Thorny1 10/29/2004
- South Dakota: Packerbacker78 4/9/2005
- Tennessee: GA Cacher 10/19/2004
- Texas: Jackie & Allen 11/26/2004
- Utah: tobsas 5/6/2007
- Vermont: WaldenRun 5/26/2004
- Virginia: caboron 6/14/2004
- Washington
- West Virginia: Zekester & Simon 12/13/2008
- Wisconsin: zoejam72 7/3/2005
- Wyoming
So the current count of visited states is 36! :-)
Berti likes to see more of the cities, the countryside and the people. He came all the way from Germany to the US, so if you have the time and the opportunity to take pictures, we would love to see them.
If you find this TravelBug in a cache, we encourage you to take it even if you don't have any trade items or if the rules of the cache disallow you to pick him up for whatever reason. He has a mission and wants to travel, if you can help him, please do so!
In Germany, Berti is well known as he appears several times a day on ZDF, one of the main television networks. He and his friends Anton, Conni, Det, Edi and Fritzchen, who are called the "Mainzelmännchen" (as the network is based in Mainz) show up in short funny trailers between the commercials.
