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Travel Bug Dog Tag 'Gus', the GeoMonkey

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Owner:
The Artful Dodger Send Message to Owner Message this owner
Released:
Saturday, October 13, 2001
Origin:
New Jersey, United States
Recently Spotted:
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Current Goal

Melissa's Four GeoMonkeys are on the loose!

"Gus", the Gorilla wants to go home to Melissa in New Zealand

   Mission: Get back to Melissa in Auckland, New Zealand

via the Grand Central Station Travel Bug Hotel in California

About This Item

Gus Portrait

"Gus", the Powerful Gorilla is one of 4 GeoMonkeys belonging to her owner, Melissa. He needs to reunite with his other three brothers: Cheeky, Bayonet  and Shambock in New Zealand and return to Melissa, who misses them terribly.

Gus, the Gorilla, is the strongest and the protector of the group. All the other monkeys in the jungle run when they see Gus .... but Gus has a big heart. He is a gentle old fella - wouldn't hurt a fly. Gus loves to hang out at his favorite watering hole and watch the female gorillas take a bath! Very naughty, Gus! Melissa loves to put Gus on top of her pillow, as Gus guards and protects all the other stuffed toys on her bed.

Gus loves children and other fellow geocachers and wants to meet as many as he can before he gets back to Melissa. Please take a photo of you with him and post it here for Melissa to see. 

 

IF YOU OR A GEOCACHER YOU KNOW CAN TAKE GUS OVERSEAS - PLEASE HELP!!


Melissa's GeoMonkeys 

Meet Melissa !

Cheeky Bayonet Shambock
** HOME **
A tribute to my favorite niece
(Click to view other Geomonkeys)




Once in Auckland, New Zealand, email The Artful Dodger for instructions on how you can personally return "Gus" to Melissa.
and make a little girl smile !

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Tracking History (14000mi) View Map

Discovered It 9/16/2023 MiriCach discovered it   Visit Log

TL;DR: We don't have the trackable (and feel sorry for you if it means it is still missing), but stumbled upon its discovery code.

The story: I discovered this trackable/coin when I cracked the cache "Msportis Coinlihaus der 2." and then was able to reverse-engineer some Coins/TBs of the owner Msporti as well. By pure chance / luck while testing out possibilities for this I also came across this TB/coin. We hope that it's okay that we discover it, if not, feel free to delete this log. TFTC/TFTT 😉

Dropped Off 1/6/2005 KiwiLegend placed it in Morgans Walk (Canterbury) South Island, New Zealand - 481.31 miles  Visit Log
Write note 12/23/2004 KiwiLegend posted a note for it   Visit Log

Could someone please take this bug off my list.
We sent it on weeks ago.

Grab It (Not from a Cache) 11/18/2004 KiwiLegend grabbed it   Visit Log

Grabbed on a flying visit to Kiwitonita literally on the way to the Airport.
Gus is in Auckland - we just need to find a way to get him back to Melissa.
You could ring Liz on 630-1206 to arrange it somehow.

Retrieve It from a Cache 10/16/2004 kiwitonita retrieved it from Rabbit (Nelson) South Island, New Zealand   Visit Log

Will drop Gus off on the way to Christchurch next week.

Dropped Off 10/16/2004 steve7mm08 placed it in Rabbit (Nelson) South Island, New Zealand - 320.62 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 8/5/2004 steve7mm08 retrieved it from Auckland International Travel Bug Hotel & Casino North Island, New Zealand   Visit Log

While in Auckland we grabbed Gus to take him for a ride. It wasnt until we got home to Nelson that we discovered that his goal was to return to Auckland.
I guess he will just have to be on the road a bit longer🙂

Dropped Off 7/6/2004 jgarvey placed it in Auckland International Travel Bug Hotel & Casino North Island, New Zealand - 35.99 miles  Visit Log

Gus hadn't heard from his travel agent (The A.D.) about
return plans, so he checked into this hotel (following a
visit by his brother Shambock; hopefully he'll make the
final steps home to Melissa from here).

Retrieve It from a Cache 6/24/2004 jgarvey retrieved it from Dam Tourists (Auckland) North Island, New Zealand   Visit Log

Collected from Dam (was getting wet), gave him tour of
Mount Maunganui, and a ride up to Auckland; after he has
a short rest will drop him off somewhere in Auckland later
this week ...

Dropped Off 5/23/2004 willbuild placed it in Dam Tourists (Auckland) North Island, New Zealand - 27.74 miles  Visit Log
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