Travel Bug Dog Tag GPS

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Released:
Saturday, April 26, 2003
Origin:
Washington, United States
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In the hands of ollifa.

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Current Goal

This bugs goal is to make it to Kent, Washington, USA - its return trip from Schwabach, just SW of Nurnberg, Germany.

About This Item

The GPS Bug

The GPS travel bug has a short and tragic history. After 12 years of flying and 24 years of hiking I had never owned a GPS. Then my sister told me about geocaching.

The next week I bought a Camo GPS on ebay for $85, and after receiving it took my two kids to find three caches in an afternoon; they loved it.

OK, so why am I using a GPS for a travel bug? Well I don't think leaving it on the truck rail hurt it, and I don't think it broke when it fell off the truck rail and hit the street, but it clearly wasn't working after a car drove over it.

So why Schwabach, Germany? Schwabach its a great little Bavarian town with a traditional town square and city park. You should see it sometime. I have relatives in the area and hope to visit them shortly after the bug arrives. PLease keep the GPS bug in the area of Nurnberg. Vielen dank.

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Tracking History (13591.3mi) View Map

Dropped Off 6/17/2005 drevokocur placed it in Na samote u lesa 2oo5/Wilds near the forest 2oo5 Jihočeský kraj, Czechia - 62.61 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 6/11/2005 drevokocur retrieved it from Oppidum Stradonice Středočeský kraj, Czechia   Visit Log

I retrieved it from the Oppidum cache and I'm going to bring it to the Czech geocaching event next weekend. I hope someone will take it to Germany from here.
Dropped Off 6/11/2005 Dorcadion Team placed it in Oppidum Stradonice Středočeský kraj, Czechia - 6.09 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 6/11/2005 Dorcadion Team retrieved it from Mramor Středočeský kraj, Czechia   Visit Log

Really nice piece of hi-tech :)
Dropped Off 6/11/2005 Saman placed it in Mramor Středočeský kraj, Czechia - 13.85 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 6/10/2005 Saman retrieved it from Bike cache no2 Hlavní město Praha, Czechia   Visit Log

GPS will see some more of the Czech Republic before it will go back to Germany :)
Dropped Off 6/7/2005 abaxgo placed it in Bike cache no2 Hlavní město Praha, Czechia - 154.92 miles  Visit Log

Lets go to the east in a new country. Prague its a very good place to start there. Schwabach can wait....*smile*
Retrieve It from a Cache 5/16/2005 abaxgo retrieved it from Im Herzen Bayerns Bayern, Germany   Visit Log

Auwei , das tut ja richtig weh, wenn man sich die gute alte E-trex Laiche anschaut......
Dropped Off 5/8/2005 mathEmiker placed it in Im Herzen Bayerns Bayern, Germany - 59.76 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 5/4/2005 mathEmiker retrieved it from Wurmloch«««Uplink Bayern, Germany   Visit Log

looks as if this GPS device won't be useful for geocaching anymore... 😉 We'll bring it closer to Schwabach.
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