Travel Bug Dog Tag GPS

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Released:
Saturday, April 26, 2003
Origin:
Washington, United States
Recently Spotted:
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

Retrieve It from a Cache 6/12/2008 Banjobende retrieved it from Music Maestro Netherlands   Visit Log

We found this one in a very nice cache for which we had to solve a music puzzle. We are not heading for Germany for 6 weeks now, so we will place it in the first regular size we will find.
PS, on the picture you can see how the TB meets a family- member.

  • e-trex reunion
Dropped Off 6/8/2008 Dasjes placed it in Music Maestro Netherlands - 106.75 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 5/23/2008 Dasjes retrieved it from Historisch Berkel en Rodenrijs Zuid-Holland, Netherlands   Visit Log

Found it in Historisch Berkel en Rodenrijs. This is the second travel-gpsr-bug I've seen.
Discovered It 5/5/2008 Hiking dodo discovered it   Visit Log

Saw it in Historisch Berkel en Rodenrijs..... not really close to Nurnberg, or perhaps with a very fast car ;-)

greetz, Hiking dodo
Dropped Off 3/9/2008 De Vlaardingse Bende placed it in Historisch Berkel en Rodenrijs Zuid-Holland, Netherlands - 61.9 miles  Visit Log
Discovered It 3/9/2008 Mon-Roe discovered it   Visit Log

Seen it in Historisch Berkel
Retrieve It from a Cache 2/28/2008 De Vlaardingse Bende retrieved it from De Schat van Schenkenshul Gelderland, Netherlands   Visit Log

We will put it in another cache asap.
Dropped Off 2/28/2008 Legendary03 placed it in De Schat van Schenkenshul Gelderland, Netherlands - 36.18 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 3/25/2007 Legendary03 retrieved it from Strijden voor vrijheid -Huize Lidwina- Netherlands   Visit Log

Find it in a stash who's actualy to small for it, so I toke it to drop the TB in larger stash somewhere...
Hopefully he find his way to Schwabach.

Legendary03
Dropped Off 3/24/2007 Kissieszoekers placed it in Strijden voor vrijheid -Huize Lidwina- Netherlands - 20.97 miles  Visit Log
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