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Travel Bug Dog Tag Smilin' Joe

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Owner:
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Released:
Sunday, November 11, 2001
Origin:
Minnesota, United States
Recently Spotted:
In Hatchlands 1

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Current Goal

My goal changes often and I never know what it is. Instead, every time I am moved my owner plays hot-and-cold and posts a clue to steer me in the right direction. I need to pass through a lot of hands to do this, so be sure to put me in high-traffic caches! Also be sure to read all the logs and follow the clues so that I don't go off in the wrong direction. My fate is now in your hands...

About This Item

Smilin' Joe


Mission #2 - Go Tell It On The Mountain
I have been asked to do some reconnaisance work at a cache with a view. The cache is located atop a cliff on top of a mountain adjacent to the highest mountain in the target's state. Can you help me figure out what cache this is and find my way there?

CURRENT STATUS: COLD, COLD, COLD...

CLUES:

  1. 25/Dec/2001 - The cache is to the south of my current location.
  2. 05/Jan/2002 - My destination has something to do with a feral feline.
  3. 20/Jan/2002 - Walt Disney once drew cartoons in my destination state...
  4. 26/Jan/2002 - ...before he made it big in California.
  5. 17/Feb/2002 - Tigers can be found nearby, though my cache is a different kind of cat.
  6. 21/Mar/2002 - Listen to BruceS, he knows exactly where I am supposed to go!
  7. 10/Apr/2002 - I only had less than 1.5 miles to go. :( Someone heading south grab me quickly, I have to be in Wildcat by May 18, 2002 or this particular mission will be a failure and my boss will give me something even nastier to do next!

  • PAST MISSIONS

    Mission #1 - I'll Be Home For Christmas
    STATUS: MISSION FAILED
    I got stuck here at 60 Acres, and while I was here, my target cache was plundered. So, I'm actually lucky this mission failed.
    MY TARGET WAS: Populus deltoides
    My owner has asked me to join him and his family when they get together for Christmas. In order to do this, I have to be waiting in a particular geocache on December 25, 2001. I know that this cache is in a metropolitan area in the United States. I also know that wherever this city is, it is not the city I was released in and it is also not the city that my owner lives in. Can you help me?

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    Tracking History (13938.6mi) View Map

    Discovered It 9/16/2023 MiriCach discovered it South East England, United Kingdom   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 7/19/2020 explorer_olway discovered it South East England, United Kingdom   Visit Log

    Discovered but now is a stone rather than the photo on the TB page.

    Dropped Off 6/3/2020 Jackchandler96 placed it in Hatchlands 1 South East England, United Kingdom - 9.33 miles  Visit Log

    Left Smilin’ Joe! 😊

    Retrieve It from a Cache 6/3/2020 Jackchandler96 retrieved it from West End Trackable Motel South East England, United Kingdom   Visit Log

    Took smilin’ Joe, lovely design!

    Dropped Off 5/24/2020 MichaelMarrill placed it in West End Trackable Motel South East England, United Kingdom - 8.41 miles  Visit Log

    We've held onto this one for a few years now, however after thinking we'd lost it, it turned up after a recent house move! Dropped off!

    Discovered It 8/25/2019 Onkel Benny discovered it   Visit Log

    Rummaging through history, I was able to discover this beautiful ultra-old travel bug online.

    Thank you for showing,
    greetings from Germany

    Onkel Benny

    Visited 5/30/2016 MichaelMarrill took it to Church Micro 454…Binfield - St Mark's Southern England, United Kingdom - .05 miles  Visit Log

    Second Multicache

    Visited 5/30/2016 MichaelMarrill took it to Pope's Meadow Pleasures (Berkshire) Southern England, United Kingdom - 9.17 miles  Visit Log

    First Multicache

    Visited 5/30/2016 MichaelMarrill took it to C & S walk - By old stumpy South East England, United Kingdom - .12 miles  Visit Log

    Quick cache and dash

    Visited 5/30/2016 MichaelMarrill took it to C & S walk - Between a rock & a hard place South East England, United Kingdom - 4.49 miles  Visit Log

    Tad muddy is this cache

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