Cache Type – Traditional Cache Geocoin G's Traditional Cache Geocoin

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garrettandnatasha Send Message to Owner Message this owner
Released:
Monday, March 14, 2011
Origin:
Illinois, United States
Recently Spotted:
In SCL --- Aeropuerto A Merino Benitez

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Current Goal

To travel from country to country!

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This is just a basic geocoin. Started by GarrettandNatasha in Champaign Illinois!

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Tracking History (9620.1mi) View Map

Write note 12/2/2012 Thurkan posted a note for it   Visit Log

No está en el Cache que se indica.
Write note 8/20/2011 Beaver Pelt posted a note for it   Visit Log

Not in cache.. MIA
Dropped Off 6/1/2011 jleitner placed it in SCL --- Aeropuerto A Merino Benitez Chile - 28.44 miles  Visit Log

Time to let the coin go on! Today, before my return flight to Sao Paulo (almost 7 hours delayed), used the spare time to go back and visit the cache hidden in Santiago´s Intl airport, from where the coin will most surely have a good chance of catching a flight to a new country. With this coin, we´ve visited the countryside of Sao Paulo state (Brazil), Paraguay, Argentina and Chile. And now off to new destinations! Boa viagem!!
Visited 5/29/2011 jleitner took it to Quebrada en la 18 Chile - 17.63 miles  Visit Log

As promised, the coin today went all the way up the Cordillera de los Andes, in Chile, until Valle Nevado, a ski resort at the altitude of 3000mts a.s.l. Unfortunately, I couldn´t find the caches I had planned for this day, mainly due to terrain dificulty, but registered the miles traveled by the coin anyway. I´m attaching a picture of the coin up in Valle Nevado. Snow is already coming down the Andes as winter approaches. In a few weeks more, everything there is going to be white! The coin has seen some condor birds today too! Just take a look at the my log in 'Quebrada en la 18' (GCM3TG) to see them!

  • The coin up on the Andes, 3000mts a.s.l.
Visited 5/29/2011 jleitner took it to Mirador del Maipo Chile - 80.37 miles  Visit Log
Visited 5/28/2011 jleitner took it to La Bandera, Viña del Mar Chile - 1,656.59 miles  Visit Log

As promised, I used a free weekend I had after a full week of work in Santiago to rent a car and tatke the coin to travel a bit around Chile. Today, we´ve been visiting the Chilean coast between Valparaiso and the Rio Aconcagua, already in the Concon city area. We did visit the 'La Bandera' cache (GC267NJ) in the Viña del Mar region, with a really nice view of the beach. Tomorrow, we´re expected to go visiting some caches in the area of Cajon del Maipo, Farellones and, if there´s enough time left, some caches in the Cerro San Cristobal area, in Santiago. So, in a few words, tomorrow the Coin is going to climb the Cordillera de los Andes! I´m attaching a picture of the coin´s visit to Viña del Mar

  • The coin visiting 'La Bandera' at Viña del Mar
Visited 5/22/2011 jleitner took it to O Viajor - Aeroporto Internacional de São Paulo São Paulo, Brazil - 1,052.47 miles  Visit Log
Visited 5/19/2011 jleitner took it to Buenos Aires Monumental Cache Argentina - 1,048.31 miles  Visit Log

Used a business day-trip to Buenos Aires to visit the 'Buenos Aires Monumental Cache' with the Traditional Cache Geocoin. Our 1st cache in Argentina, both mine and the coin´s! I´m already back to Sao Paulo with the coin - we´re expected to go to Chile next week. Let´s just hope the trip to Chile is confirmed, otherwise I´m gonna think about a nice cache here in Sao Paulo where to hide the coin and let another geocacher make it travel round the globe!
Visited 4/22/2011 jleitner took it to Serra Azul São Paulo, Brazil - 40.06 miles  Visit Log

Today, we took the geocoin to know the country-side of Sao Paulo state! We (me, my wife, my son and the coin) went to the TAM aeronautical museum near Sao Carlos city and in the way we stopped a while to visit the Serra Azul cache (GC2CJCJ). Besides, there was a cache supposed to be near the museum, but it resulted in a DNF, so I´ve had only the first cache logged into this coin´s history. During this trip, the coin saw a lot of new landscapes and many sugar cane farms.

  • The geocoin and the Sao Paulo state countryside Picture taken in our way back from Sao Carlos to Sao Paulo, after a short stop to fill up the tank. Here are the aproximate coordinates from which the picture was taken, looking towards southeast (images in Google Earth are a bit outdated, it´s going to show the excavations where today there is a big fuel & service station):
S22 49.232
W047 22.858
  • US Navy F4U1 Corsair This model is an original one, built in 1943, and exposed in the TAM Aviation Museum in Sao Carlos. It´s in a kind of real-scale diorama depicting the aircraft in the Pacific war theater where it indeed flew and fought. The 'Icons' geocache visited this wonderful bird!
Retrieve It from a Cache 4/5/2011 jleitner retrieved it from O Viajor - Aeroporto Internacional de São Paulo São Paulo, Brazil   Visit Log

Retrieved this geocoin from 'O Viajor' (GC20RHN), during some spare time before a flight to Asunción (Paraguay), in exchange of a 'Figas' wooden mini-sculpture (not-trackable)
Consequently, this geocoin has already went to Paraguay with me, and the I took it back with me to Brazil. Unfortunately, there aren´t geocaches close enough to Asunción for a 1-day business trip and therefore I was not able to register it and log the miles flown, so I´m attaching a photo of the coin in front of the airport in Asunción, in order to demonstrate the coin´s presence in Paraguay, as part of her mission! I do travel a lot to other countries in Latin America, so I´ll probably take the coin to one of these countries and help it fulfill its mission. Meanwhile, I´ll take the coin to visit some caches here in Sao Paulo during the next weeks. TFTH!

This entry was edited by jleitner on Friday, 08 April 2011 at 00:32:34 UTC.

  • 'Icons' Geocoin in Paraguay Photo taken in front of Silvio Pettirossi airport, Asuncion, Paraguay
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