Travel Bug Dog Tag Bob's Bug

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Owner:
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Released:
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Origin:
Iowa, United States
Recently Spotted:
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Current Goal

Bob’s Bug wants to travel far and fast as he is competing in the 2009 IGO Travel Bug Challenge.

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Bob's Bug

This travelbug is a part of the IGO TB Challenge. Please visit the Iowa Geocachers Organization.

Challenge Rules:

  1. You must be a member of IGO and provide your GC.com username to participate in the race.
  2. To sign-up, send an e-mail with your GC.com name and TB reference number (TBxxxx) to "TBRace at Iowageocachers.org".
  3. Each person may enter only one TB (or trackable Geocoin) into the race.
  4. TB must be trackable on GC.com and start with 0 miles.
  5. TB must be placed in its first cache between September 22nd and October 5th. This cache must be in Iowa.
  6. Race will run from 12:01am September 22nd to 11:59pm December 31st.
  7. TB description page must have a link to IowaGeocachers.org home page and list the Rules for Movement during the race. This page contains the HTML code to be added to the TB description page.
  8. Rules for Movement:
    1. Owner can not move their own TB.
    2. A cacher can only move the TB to one consecutive cache. Examples of this rule are listed below.
      1. Cacher 'A' picks up TB from cache '1' and places it in cache '2'. Cacher 'A' can’t retireve the TB from cache '2'. If they do, any movement will be subtracted from total.
      2. Cacher 'A' picks up TB from cache '1' and places in cache '2'. Cacher 'B' picks up TB from cache '2' and places in cache '3'. Cacher 'A' picks up TB from Cache '3' and moves to cache '1'. All of this movement is acceptable. However, only 3 unique caches will have been visited.
  11. TB can not be mailed to another cacher.
  • Any “illegal” movements will be removed from the totals before being posted on the updates page. The TB owner will be notified of the removal via e-mail.
  • Race participants can not impede the movement of another racer’s TB. If a cacher holds another racer's TB for longer than 14 days, their TB will be disqualified. Moving it to a remote cache is okay, but then yours may end up someplace worse. So play nice.

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    Tracking History (4194.8mi) View Map

    Write note 12/31/2009 Cacher4JChrist posted a note for it   Visit Log

    Sorry was going to drop this one off today, but it was too large to fit in the cache.
    Retrieve It from a Cache 12/29/2009 Cacher4JChrist retrieved it from I-90 TB Motel Hayward Rest Area (East Bound) Minnesota   Visit Log

    Picked it up. I hope I will be able to drop it off before the new year. This should add at least 40 miles.
    Dropped Off 12/23/2009 Bowie20-23 placed it in I-90 TB Motel Hayward Rest Area (East Bound) Minnesota - 142.2 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 11/21/2009 Bowie20-23 retrieved it from Willkommen (TB Hotel) Iowa   Visit Log

    Found this after a disappointing Gopher/Hawkeye game and will bring it on to a new spot.
    Dropped Off 11/1/2009 JPS_and_GS placed it in Willkommen (TB Hotel) Iowa - 11.97 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 11/1/2009 JPS_and_GS retrieved it from West of Coralville Westbound Iowa   Visit Log

    We just picked this up and will drop off again very quickly. Good luck! I hope you do well. Zoom Zoom!
    Dropped Off 10/31/2009 4thehike placed it in West of Coralville Westbound Iowa - 189.02 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 10/25/2009 4thehike retrieved it from Locust Tree Bridge Iowa   Visit Log

    Found this one at the end of a long trail. It might not be the end of the earth but you could see it from there. We are traveling east on Saturday so we will get it in a high traffic area and give the VW bug a push. Good luck in its travels.

    Dropped Off 10/14/2009 CachesClayIA placed it in Locust Tree Bridge Iowa - 100.11 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 10/12/2009 CachesClayIA retrieved it from ROCK the CACHEbaaa Travel Bug HOTEL Missouri   Visit Log

    was not aware of this TB previously being in Iowa.. I brought it to Iowa from Missouri after a chiefs/cowboys game! I will be sure to release this TB back out very very soon! TFTC
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