Flags of Europe Geocoin Dutch abroad

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Owner:
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Released:
Friday, January 27, 2012
Origin:
Overijssel, Netherlands
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Current Goal

Thanks for picking me up! On the front this geocoin shows the flag of the Netherlands. On the back you see the location of the Netherlands in Europe.

As the Dutch have been very important in the history of the United States of America, this coin is to represent the bond between those two countries.

My mission is to visit all of the 50 states in the USA and then return to my owner in the Netherlands, preferably to the cache "Milligerplas". Beacuse of the size of this coin, it really fits nice in a micro cache...

Below you find the list of states that this coin did not visit yet.

About This Item

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders  with Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom. It is a parliamentary democracy organised as a unitary state. The country capital is Amsterdam and the seat of government is The Hague. The Netherlands in its entirety is often referred to as Holland, although North and South Holland are actually only two of its twelve provinces.
 
The Netherlands is a geographically low-lying country, with about 25% of its area and 21% of its population located below sea level, and 50% of its land lying less than one metre above sea level. This distinct feature contributes to the country's name in many other European languages (e.g. German: Niederlande, Croatian: Nizozemska, French: Les Pays-Bas, Italian: Paesi Bassi and Spanish: Países Bajos, literally mean "(The) Low Countries"). Significant land area has been gained through land reclamation and preserved through an elaborate system of polders and dikes. Much of the Netherlands is formed by the estuary of three important European rivers, which together with their distributaries form the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta. Most of the country is very flat, with the exception of foothills in the far southeast and several low-hill ranges in the central parts.

 States I have to visit:
 
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming

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    Discovered It 4/8/2013 Ryme discovered it   Visit Log

    Sapper76 brought this to work. He'll take it to NY (USA) when we go in May so it can finally get at least one of the 50 states. =)
    Retrieve It from a Cache 4/3/2013 Sapper76 retrieved it from MEDICAL BOTTEL Ontario, Canada   Visit Log

    Found this GC in a new cache in Ottawa, ON, Canada. I really liked the information on the Netherlands on the cache page; very informative. I find it amusing that the goal of the coin is to travel to all 50 states in the USA, and yet it has only travelled around Eastern Canada (Ontario and Quebec provinces) and has been to Mexico twice, but has not yet set foot in the USA.

    I am planning to go to Lake Placid, New York in mid-May to hike some mountains in the Adirondacks. I will bring this coin with me then and find a home in a geocache around Lake Placid. As that is a very touristy area, I expect it will get picked up rather quickly and start on its desired journey around the USA.
    Dropped Off 4/3/2013 kcote placed it in MEDICAL BOTTEL Ontario, Canada - 233.82 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 3/25/2013 kcote retrieved it from Level 7 – Suite d’or Ontario, Canada   Visit Log

    We picked this up today and will move it along soon. It's spending time in Canada these days.
    Thanks!
    Discovered It 3/9/2013 cron discovered it   Visit Log

    Saw in the hands of Les Routards while going around a woodlot to find puzzle caches.
    Dropped Off 3/9/2013 Les Routards placed it in Level 7 – Suite d’or Ontario, Canada - 2,411.89 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 2/5/2013 Les Routards took it to REMOVED Nayarit, Mexico - 2,383.57 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 10/21/2012 Les Routards retrieved it from Gag18 - The Postman Always Rings Twice Ontario, Canada   Visit Log

    Will move it soon
    Dropped Off 10/19/2012 cron placed it in Gag18 - The Postman Always Rings Twice Ontario, Canada - 79.41 miles  Visit Log
    Discovered It 10/19/2012 hopper12 discovered it   Visit Log

    Discovered it on GAG night here in Ottawa.
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