Travel Bug Dog Tag Duke Kahanamoku

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Released:
Friday, January 14, 2005
Origin:
Oregon, United States
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Current Goal

Duke's mission is to return to Hawaii and catch that last big wave. Duke

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During the first half of the 20th century, Duke Paoa Kahinu Mokoe Hulikohola Kahanamoku -- known to most as Duke or The Duke, and as Paoa to Hawaiian and long time island friends -- "emerged as the world's consummate waterman, its fastest swimmer and foremost surfer, the first truly famous beach boy," wrote biographer Grady Timmons. In addition to his Olympic Gold medals in swimming, Duke Kahanamoku is best known to surfers as, "the father of modern surfing

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Tracking History (34052.3mi) View Map

Dropped Off 5/19/2007 Russ and Dana placed it in Spring Well Kansas - 37 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 5/17/2007 Russ and Dana retrieved it from Huskies' back yard Kansas   Visit Log

Wish we were going to Hawaii. We'll try to get this a little more west...
Dropped Off 4/15/2007 IC1 placed it in Huskies' back yard Kansas - 447.79 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 4/7/2007 IC1 retrieved it from TRAILMIX 8 - Gorley Hill Indiana   Visit Log

Headed west at least to the KCMO area... I will see if I can't find a good cache to keep it moving West.
Discovered It 4/7/2007 superstutz discovered it   Visit Log

Saw this one today.

Dropped Off 4/7/2007 Jenischmeni placed it in TRAILMIX 8 - Gorley Hill Indiana - 33.78 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 4/2/2007 Jenischmeni retrieved it from No Horsethiefs or Murderers Indiana   Visit Log

Found Duke hiding out. I'll hang on to him until the Trail Mix this weekend and see if I can't send him off to find some great waves. (There just aren't too many good surfs in Indiana! LOL)
Dropped Off 3/31/2007 IndyCouple placed it in No Horsethiefs or Murderers Indiana - 18.41 miles  Visit Log

Duke had a good time surfing with us...he even went surfing with a couple of other travel bugs...picture included....we now send him on his way and wish him good luck...hang ten!!!!

  • Travel bug party
Retrieve It from a Cache 3/18/2007 IndyCouple retrieved it from Something Special for Rupert2 Indiana   Visit Log

Picked up the surfboard TB today...will move along soon.
Dropped Off 3/11/2007 Rupert2 placed it in Something Special for Rupert2 Indiana - 979.62 miles  Visit Log
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