Mary Beecher has finally made it home! It's been 14 years in the wild and traveled over 72,000 miles. Years ago I was visiting my Dad and we were talking about Geocaching. He thought it was interesting and went on a find with me. He had recently taken up carving as a hobby and I mentioned in passing he could caver me something to act as a Travel Bug. A few weeks later three carved Cardinals arrived in the mail. I painted one, attached the tag and off it went.
Over the years he would periodically ask about the TB, so I would log on (after I found my password, since I'd stopped caching years ago) and print out the logs and mail them to him. He really enjoyed reading the posts. He recently passed away so Mary's return is special! Thanks to jorie7484 for getting her back!