Travel Bug Dog Tag Meriwether Lewis

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Owner:
Florafloraflora Send Message to Owner Message this owner
Released:
Thursday, November 28, 2002
Origin:
District of Columbia, United States
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Current Goal



To travel to Lewis & Clark cache #2 in St. Louis and meet up there with William Clark.

IMPORTANT: If you see Lewis in this cache without Clark or vice-versa, PLEASE do not move one along without the other. When they have both reached Lewis & Clark #2, please link up the rings on their TB tags so they can travel together from now on. Thanks.

About This Item

2003 is the 200th anniversary of the Lewis & Clark expedition. In honor of that journey I am sending off two travel-bug counterparts of the expedition's original leaders to retrace their steps. Just as in 1803, Meriwether Lewis is leaving from Washington, DC and William Clark is leaving from Clarksburg, Indiana, just across the Ohio River from Louisville. The two travelers are to meet in St. Louis (in this case, in the Lewis and Clark cache just across the river) and from there travel to find headwaters of the Missouri River, then over the Rockies and down the Columbia River to the Pacific. After that, back to the Lewis & Clark cache in St. Louis.

Because travel bugs usually move more slowly than people, even 19th-century people with non-motorized rafts,
I am giving these travel bugs a head start in 2002 in hopes that they can complete their journey by 2006, the anniversary of Lewis and Clark's return to St. Louis. There is no need to follow the route of the original expedition, but please try to keep the bugs moving in the right general direction. Photos are always welcome.

Tracking History (10769.9mi) View Map

Dropped Off 10/26/2003 gocash placed it in Where did this come from? Maryland - 6.74 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 7/16/2003 gocash retrieved it from Secret Spring Maryland   Visit Log
Dropped Off 7/16/2003 jsmarti placed it in Secret Spring Maryland - 61.03 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 6/6/2003 jsmarti retrieved it from Lean2Rock Virginia   Visit Log

Retrieved the ML TB this evening and will get him back on his way west this weekend someplace in West Virginia. The little Brunton compass is great - I believe I will have to buy one.
Dropped Off 4/15/2003 mogolloyd placed it in Lean2Rock Virginia - 33.29 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 4/14/2003 mogolloyd retrieved it from A Walkabout Town Virginia   Visit Log

I'll send him on his way soon.
Dropped Off 1/25/2003 PDJennings placed it in A Walkabout Town Virginia - 27.91 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 1/12/2003 PDJennings retrieved it from Duck Trial District of Columbia   Visit Log

Lewis started in DC (just barely). I can get him over to Virginia. Actually, it would be interesting to know the actual route followed by ML. I assume he must have headed up the Potomac at first, since that was the major thoroughfare of the day.
Dropped Off 12/14/2002 Florafloraflora placed it in Duck Trial District of Columbia   Visit Log
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