Travel Bug Dog Tag Race for Life Travel Bug

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Owner:
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Released:
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Origin:
Eastern England, United Kingdom
Recently Spotted:
In the hands of Hilsju.

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Current Goal


Simply to travel from cache to cache.

About This Item

Race For Life Travel bug

You may think this is just a Travel Bug with some beads on it... you are correct, but there is a little more to it.

The beads on the chain are a re-creation of the first 35 stripes of the DNA stripe cyclepath, which is part of the cycle path between Addenbrooke’s Hospital and Great Shelford. The path has a section that is decorated with 10,257 stripes in four colours, which represents the BRCA2 gene.

BRCA2 (the Breast Cancer Type 2 susceptibility protein) was discovered in 1995 at the Sanger Institute, just south of Cambridge, by Professor Michael Stratton and Dr Richard Wooster.
 
We launched this while we were preparing for the 2012 Race for Life.
As of 2017, the ladies in the family have now taken part in this six times between them, and this travel bug has travelled the equivalent of 14,359 ladies completing a Race For Life run.
 
 

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Tracking History (98125.7mi) View Map

Visited 6/29/2012 Caaghyr's Crew took it to National Trust Wicken Fen 3 Eastern England, United Kingdom - .36 miles  Visit Log
Visited 6/29/2012 Caaghyr's Crew took it to 2 National Trust Wicken Fen Eastern England, United Kingdom - .59 miles  Visit Log
Visited 6/29/2012 Caaghyr's Crew took it to 1 National Trust Wicken Fen Eastern England, United Kingdom - 14.82 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 6/27/2012 Caaghyr's Crew retrieved it from H&F's first cache Eastern England, United Kingdom   Visit Log

Grabbed while doing some caches in the Cambridge area, awaiting our daughter's graduation. Bug now on its' way to the Isle of Man. We will keep an eye on it and try to ensure it doesn't become trapped here, as some have in the past.
Dropped Off 6/25/2012 Gottalottacaches placed it in H&F's first cache Eastern England, United Kingdom   Visit Log
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