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 1/22/2011 EggMan2010 retrieved it from The Lone Headstone Northern Scotland, United Kingdom   Visit Log

    Picked up tb will take down to Newcastle when we head back home
    Dropped Off 1/19/2011 maiawalli placed it in The Lone Headstone Northern Scotland, United Kingdom - 9,289.6 miles  Visit Log

    Dropped in The Lone Headstone
    Retrieve It from a Cache 1/11/2011 maiawalli retrieved it from Drive In, Laugh, Drive Out Queensland, Australia   Visit Log

    Adventures offered, we are off travelling!
    Dropped Off 10/17/2010 Hanseeka placed it in Drive In, Laugh, Drive Out Queensland, Australia - 1,375.68 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 5/16/2010 Hanseeka retrieved it from GINGER Victoria, Australia   Visit Log

    Will get the plascilloscope onto it and see what comes of it...
    Dropped Off 5/15/2010 The Morris placed it in GINGER Victoria, Australia - 337.5 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 4/4/2010 The Morris retrieved it from Oura by Night New South Wales, Australia   Visit Log

    Rescued from the hordes visiting and off to central victoria
    Dropped Off 4/4/2010 alex placed it in Oura by Night New South Wales, Australia - 508.64 miles  Visit Log
    Write note 3/31/2010 alex posted a note for it   Visit Log

    Poor Kenneth the Magellan Sportrak has metamorphosed into a Garmin Geko (see picture) - I don't know how, it must be magic. Soon to be released into the wilds of Wagga Wagga at the first Australian Mega event. Cheers

    • Kenneth, was Magellan, now Garmin
    Grab It (Not from a Cache) 2/28/2010 alex grabbed it   Visit Log

    I retrieved Poor Kenneth from Fuel Up cache on the Bluff at Victor Harbor. Kenneth the GPS is no longer attached so perhaps someone has repaired it. (In my experience that is highly unlikely!)
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