Travel Bug Dog Tag The Swimming Salmon

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Owner:
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Released:
Monday, February 21, 2011
Origin:
Oregon, United States
Recently Spotted:
In the hands of shurdel.

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Current Goal

My mission is two-fold. 1) To beat my son and hubby's TB's in mileage. 2) To travel the world visiting beautiful and/or unique waterways. A bonus would be to visit some spawning grounds!

 

***update 3/2/14***  It has been three years and this TB is currently in second place behind hubby's TB.  But what is so cool to me is that it left the United States, traveled around Europe for a while and is now back in the US!  Hubby and little man's TB's have both made it to Europe as well and are getting lots of miles but I love how mine is "coming home".  Would be VERY cool to see this little guy again...so please try to send him swimming back the the West Coast and Oregon(Southern Oregon in particular) thanks to all the awesome cachers out there who have helped this TB remain on course.  It has seem many beautiful and interesting sites and waterways all over the world...I'm jealous!!!  New mission:  keep racking up miles, but send me home to the Rogue River in Gold Hill, Oregon!!!  Pics would be great.

Thanks to all and happy caching!

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Orange plastic salmon.

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Tracking History (18048.6mi) View Map

Visited 9/6/2020 skater_chick93 took it to Nardi Preserve--East Loop Illinois - 20.29 miles  Visit Log

Working on a Geo-trail. Stop 1 for the day.
Retrieve It from a Cache 9/6/2020 skater_chick93 retrieved it from Halemeister's First Gadget! (Bring A 9v Battery) Illinois   Visit Log

Daripple picked this one up for me the other day but didn't log it. Gonna be logging the places its been to so far a little later.
Dropped Off 8/22/2020 DrJeckyloftheDunes placed it in Halemeister's First Gadget! (Bring A 9v Battery) Illinois - 110.16 miles  Visit Log

My son and I dropped this one off in an awesome gadget cache in Rockford, IL. We had nicknamed the travel bug the swedish fish for it's resemblance to the candy. I gave him the choice of the gadget cache or the place I thought to be a good fit, a travel bug hotel right outside a Scandinavian cemetery. Some fun Rockford history, "According to the census of 1930 there resided in Rockford at that time 10,088 persons born in Sweden and 12,243 born in America of Swedish parents. If the third generation be included, the Swedish descendants in Rockford must be approximately 35,000."

We dropped the "Swedish Fish" off and next stop was IKEA before we made our way home for the day.
Retrieve It from a Cache 8/16/2020 DrJeckyloftheDunes retrieved it from Happy Camper Indiana   Visit Log

My son and I found this one today and decided to help it gain some more mileage. We aren't planning any trips out west any time soon due to the pandemic but we are heading north to the Wisconsin/Illinois border soon so that should give it a little more mileage. My son has affectionately named this bug the Swedish Fish. And most amazing of all is this bug was released a couple months before my son was born and it's still in play.
Dropped Off 7/26/2020 boiler24maker placed it in Happy Camper Indiana - 9.38 miles  Visit Log

After moving I finally found this travel bug - it has spent a lot of time with me and my family and now he is free to swim to another location.
Retrieve It from a Cache 4/13/2014 boiler24maker retrieved it from Witch's Brew #11 - Rat Tail Indiana   Visit Log

Going out again today we will find it a new home
Dropped Off 1/13/2014 Purrll placed it in Witch's Brew #11 - Rat Tail Indiana - 125.34 miles  Visit Log

Dropped this TB off at Deep River, in Deep River Park on the way to Merrillville, IN. Swim on!

This entry was edited by Purrll on Tuesday, 14 January 2014 at 02:37:18 UTC.
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 12/29/2013 Purrll grabbed it   Visit Log

Found this fishy in The Iron Brigade cache, geocode GC14P3R. Will finishing reading it's story and move it along accordingly and loggingly.
Discovered It 12/27/2013 mmarmont discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered in GC14P3R The Iron Brigade.
Dropped Off 10/30/2013 Silyngufy placed it in Shaggy Wisconsin - 6.78 miles  Visit Log

Wanted to drop this in Seattle but due to injury this is the first opportunity to get out.

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