Misc.-Buckeye or Chestnut TB01
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Owner:
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shellbadger
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Released:
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Saturday, November 12, 2011
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Origin:
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Texas, United States
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Recently Spotted:
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In the hands of misspyt.
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This travel bug has the modest goal to circulate more than five years and to be moved by at least 25 cachers. That is a rate of five drops per year for five years. As of 3-Dec-19 it had survived for 3.3 years and had been moved by 17 cachers.
Please drop it in rural OR Pre0ium Member Only caches. Do not place it in an urban cache or abandon it at a caching event where there is no security. Transport the bug in the original plastic bag for as long as the bag lasts; the bag keeps the trackable clean, protects the number and prevents tangling with other items. Otherwise, take the travel bug anywhere you wish. No permission is needed to leave the U.S.
Travel bug photos are appreciated and will be re-posted here.
My wife is from Toledo, OH, so when she visits family she always brings buckeyes back to Texas with her. In 2011 we were in Switzerland and Austria and, never having seen chestnuts, we thought we were seeing buckeyes on the sidewalks. We learned the truth and I had another idea for travel bugs. We later aquired some chestnuts for comparison.
The TB is either a buckeye or chestnut—you decide after comparison with the photos. Buckeyes tend to be a little smaller in size, with a smaller hilum (attachment scar) and are darker colored. If you are from Ohio, you probably know the difference since you are from the historic range of both species. The American chestnut was extirpated from most of its range by a blight (caused by a fungus). They now occur only in isolated spots on the margins of their former range. The chestnuts we find in stores now mostly originate in Europe or Asia.
Interestingly, despite the similarity of the nuts and tree leaves, buckeyes and chestnuts are in completely different plant families, and, chestnuts are edible whereas buckeyes can be toxic without a lot of preparation.
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Tracking History (8199.2mi) View Map
OCCD took it to A house around the Benn
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Michigan
- 10.54 miles
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OCCD retrieved it from Quimps...
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Ohio
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Out checking on a few of my caches when I came across this travel bug. I'm doing some traveling this weekend so I decided to add a few more miles to this travel bug.
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Jimmy System placed it in Quimps...
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Ohio
- 93.79 miles
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Jimmy System retrieved it from Stumpy's Travel Bug Hotel
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Michigan
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I, too, am a transplant from Toledo and my eyes lit up when I saw a buckeye. I'll move it along as these guys may not be too popular up here in enemy territory.
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VW's 17 discovered it
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Still in Stumpy's and in great shape. Did not move it as we don't have any trips planned in the near future to drop it off somewhere else. Will try to move it along if it's still there later this fall. It's residing with another Trackable XW7ZTZ right now.
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wetzelja placed it in Stumpy's Travel Bug Hotel
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Michigan
- 2,003.94 miles
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Dropped in Stumpy's Travel Bug Hotel
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wetzelja posted a note for it
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Still got this one, sorry it's taken a while for me to pass it along. We got hit early and often with snow this winter in Michigan! Will work on dropping it off as an opportunity arises.
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wetzelja retrieved it from Chasing Rainbows - Blue
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Virginia
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So my sister and her family apparently retrieved this from a cache in VA, but they don't geocache much so they didn't log it. My parents came back from a trip to visit them, and they passed it on to me because they know I would know what to do with it. So...in a roundabout way, this bug is now in Michigan. I will work on dropping it off in a rural cache shortly.
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Ezio10 placed it in Chasing Rainbows - Blue
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Virginia
- 8.42 miles
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Ezio10 grabbed it
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This was not in Birthday Girl Cache, but grabbed from another cache close to it. Will move this along.
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