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Travel Bug Dog Tag Will Work for Ride!

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Released:
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Origin:
Texas, United States
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PLEASE TAKE A PICTURE OF THIS HANDSOME BUG AT YOUR PLACE OF WORK. If you don't work, how 'bout your favorite pub?

This fella comes from a Houston TX A-shift firefighter from Houston Fire Department. This bug has been to fires, lots of medical calls, one bayou "rescue", several taco salad breakfasts, countless stops for coffee, and in trouble with the supervisor more than once (all a misunderstanding). We can't wait to see him hanging off our mirror again one day after his travels.

About This Item

Easy going travel partner and likes to rest frequently, bed by nine and up by 11:05pm, 12:15am, 3:20am, 4:10am, sleeps in 'til 6:30am.

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Tracking History (21863mi) View Map

Dropped Off 6/9/2006 wilsonjw placed it in Tombstone Lookout Yukon Territory, Canada - 247.8 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 6/8/2006 wilsonjw retrieved it from Roadside Series: Fishing @ Fox Yukon Territory, Canada   Visit Log

This was our first (and only) cache of the day. We found this one about 0100, and headed to the Fox Lake Campground soon thereafter.

We were able to do a little caching, visit and shop in Whitehorse, and put a little distance on the North Klondike Highway while having a lot of fun.

  • 1:00 a.m. at Fox Lake
Dropped Off 6/8/2006 wilsonjw placed it in Roadside Series: Fishing @ Fox Yukon Territory, Canada - 33.61 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 6/7/2006 wilsonjw retrieved it from First Post - Whitehorse Yukon Territory, Canada   Visit Log

By now, it was getting REALLY late (by my watch), so it was time to hit the road. We stopped by this virtual cache as we drove through town to get back on the Alaska Highway.

Dropped Off 6/7/2006 wilsonjw placed it in First Post - Whitehorse Yukon Territory, Canada - 1.83 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 6/7/2006 wilsonjw retrieved it from Laybug's Yukon Travel Bug Inn Yukon Territory, Canada   Visit Log

After we had a great meal at Sam 'n' Andy's, we figured we had enough time for a quick cache or two before the day was going to be getting too long. It's tough to keep a perspective on time when it's daylight nearly all day (night caching is not an option here, in the summertime!). We stopped by the Yukon Travel Bug Inn to grab a few travel bugs that had been sitting for quite a while.

Dropped Off 6/7/2006 wilsonjw placed it in Laybug's Yukon Travel Bug Inn Yukon Territory, Canada - 1.74 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 6/7/2006 wilsonjw retrieved it from Big Kid's Cache Yukon Territory, Canada   Visit Log

We'd spent quite a bit of time on the last two caches, so we needed to head down the road to Whitehorse. We had a little shopping to do (Mac's Fireweed Books is a favorite), and wanted to get a few of the caches closer to the center of town. We also wanted to get a prepared meal and beverage of choice; we wound up at Sam 'n' Andy's (Mexican, naturally), and had a great meal.

Dropped Off 6/7/2006 wilsonjw placed it in Big Kid's Cache Yukon Territory, Canada - .21 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 6/7/2006 wilsonjw retrieved it from Christina’s Kids Cache (Adults Welcome) Yukon Territory, Canada   Visit Log

There's a pretty funny story associated with our search for this cache. I didn't buy the Canada topographic maps for my GPS (US$150), so I was trying to find this one with nothing much better than the GPS version of a road map (think of how well rivers are represented on road maps, and you'll get an idea of the challenge).

We'd done the Canyon City hike, and had found the Miles Canyon cache. While on the [west] side of the river, I'd convinced myself that this cache was also on the [west] side of the river. We tried several paths, some of which got pretty hairy the further we went downstream. After several false starts, we realized we must be on the wrong side of Miles Canyon. We crossed the bridge, marched down the trail, searched a bit, and there it was!

Every time I visit Miles Canyon, I think not only of the people who risked their lives trying to get their ton of supplies downriver to the Klondike region, but I also think of the fun it would be to run the Yukon River all the way to the Bering Sea. Maybe someday....

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