Travel Bug Dog Tag Alas, Poor Kenneth

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Released:
Thursday, April 28, 2005
Origin:
California, United States
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In the hands of tomlebonn.

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Current Goal

To fiind my way back to the headquarters of Garmin, Inc in Olathe, Kansas, USA. (N 38 deg 51.333 min
W 094 deg 47.941 min)

About This Item

This TB is named for our first GPS, see the story below. BUT, this isn't it. The original Kenneth vanished somewhere Down Under, and was replaced with the Garmin mockup you see here. It's trying to find its way back to Garmin HQ.

(The original story: When we bought our first geocaching GPSr, a humble but reliable Sportrak, we named it Kenneth, after the song. Kenneth served us well for over 1600 caches, but one evening in Santa Cruz he lost his marbles, and he's never been the same since. So we're turning him loose as a travel bug to roam the geocaching world in search of his lost fix.

Here's the deal: if you can get Kenneth working again, he's yours! Just attach something else to the bug tag, and turn it loose again. Don't drive yourself nuts, though: We've tried every reset, reload, and diagnostic that's officially documented, not so officially listed on the net, or that we could discover. Once you get past that so-hopeful splash screen, he goes into an infinite reboot every few seconds. The diagnostic comes up with a sad little 'x' next to RTC, whatever that may be. Poor Kenneth! Maybe you'll be the one to restore his sanity.)

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    Tracking History (26944.7mi) View Map

    Retrieve It from a Cache 9/23/2011 tomlebonn retrieved it from Water Lilies! South Wales, United Kingdom   Visit Log

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    Dropped Off 9/9/2011 Owstoners placed it in Water Lilies! South Wales, United Kingdom - 187.81 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 9/9/2011 Owstoners took it to Round Robin South Wales, United Kingdom - 188.71 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 8/30/2011 Owstoners retrieved it from The Rutland Round - Belton View East Midlands, United Kingdom   Visit Log

    KENNETH STILL IS NOT WELL, AND NEEDS A HOLIDAY TO SEE IF HE CAN FIND A DOCTOR. WE WILL MOVE HIM ON ASAP.
    Dropped Off 7/28/2011 Crafty Foxes placed it in The Rutland Round - Belton View East Midlands, United Kingdom - 182.32 miles  Visit Log
    Grab It (Not from a Cache) 7/16/2011 Crafty Foxes grabbed it   Visit Log

    Grabbed Kenneth TB from Dropsofrain whilst visiting Northumberland. We have brought him back to Rutland and will drop him off at the next suitable cache.
    Crafty Foxes
    Retrieve It from a Cache 5/6/2011 dropsofrain retrieved it from Freaky Trees and The Rocket North East England, United Kingdom   Visit Log

    Found on a very dull and overcast drizzly sunday afternoon.

    • I found it !!
    Dropped Off 3/17/2011 h00li00kimmy placed it in Freaky Trees and The Rocket North East England, United Kingdom - 9,299.51 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 3/16/2011 h00li00kimmy retrieved it from cycle catastrophy North East England, United Kingdom   Visit Log

    Found in a countryside cache. Will relocate this one right next to Newcastle Airport. Holiday flights start at the end of the month so hopefully this bug will grow wings and fly to a closer country !!!
    Dropped Off 3/15/2011 EggMan2010 placed it in cycle catastrophy North East England, United Kingdom - 142.03 miles  Visit Log

    Dropped in cycle catastrophy
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