Travel Bug Dog Tag Royal Hitchhikers

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Released:
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Origin:
Sweden
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Current Goal

Travel back home to Sweden, visiting as many countries as possible along the way.

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Royal Hichhikers

Carl XVI Gustav is on a world tour together with his grandfather Gustav VI Adolf. Their goal is to make it back home to Sweden, visiting as many countries as possible along the way. Pictures from their adventures are most welcome!

Carl XVI Gustav has been the regent of Sweden since 1973 when he acceded the throne upon the death of his grandfather Gustav VI Adolf. Carl Gustav's father, also named Gustav Adolf, was the heir apparent to the throne but was killed in an airplane accident in 1947, less than a year after Carl Gustav's birth.

Actually, this bug is made from two "Krona", the base monetary unit in Sweden. The old coin with Gustav Adolf is from 1963, the oldest still commonly found in circulation. The newer coin with Carl Gustav was minted in 2000, the last year using the original design introduced in 1976.

This travel bug was released on our honeymoon trip through USA visiting CA, AZ, UT, NV, CT, NJ and NY.

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Tracking History (13893.5mi) View Map

Retrieve It from a Cache 9/18/2005 wandering360 retrieved it from Airport Travel Bug Bed & Breakfast Missouri   Visit Log

Will move along soon near Illinois
Dropped Off 9/17/2005 PokeDude placed it in Airport Travel Bug Bed & Breakfast Missouri - 921.75 miles  Visit Log
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 8/5/2005 PokeDude grabbed it   Visit Log

grabbed this from my brother...
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 8/5/2005 Digi-Drew grabbed it   Visit Log

grabbed this from my mom...
Retrieve It from a Cache 8/5/2005 Faith the Aquariaqueen retrieved it from Super Hero I-40 Eastbound TB Stash & Dash New Mexico   Visit Log

Aquariaqueen, DigiDrew and PokeDude found this on a 10 state vacation.
Sorry for the cut and paste log, too many to log for 3 people.

St. Peters Mo
Dropped Off 7/29/2005 Geefour placed it in Super Hero I-40 Eastbound TB Stash & Dash New Mexico - 387.51 miles  Visit Log

This travel bug has had an eventful day. Our geocaching team was interviewed by a local news channel for a feature story about geocaching for tonight's 10:00 news. Four other teams participated also. Mrs. Geefour was interviewed and had this travel bug in her hand during the interview. She held it up and talked about it briefly. It's only 8:30 now, so we don't know if that part of the interview made the final cut for the news story. Of the TBs in our possession at the moment, this one had traveled the furthest, thereby winning the selection for being a part of the news story.

  • TV interview holding Royal Hitchhikers TB
Retrieve It from a Cache 7/22/2005 Geefour retrieved it from Avery Cache Colorado   Visit Log

We live in New Mexico, which many people think is in a country other than the US. We'll release this bug somewhere in NM.
Dropped Off 7/19/2005 Scuba-Duo placed it in Avery Cache Colorado - 4,721.78 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 7/9/2005 Scuba-Duo retrieved it from What a View! Nevada   Visit Log

Found this and will be heading to Denver end of this week so we'll move it along with us!
Dropped Off 7/7/2005 zbx placed it in What a View! Nevada - 5,226.7 miles  Visit Log

Royal Hitchhikers has traveled with us to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Grand Canyon. First here, after visiting the Hoover Dam, we found a good place for them to stay.
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