Travel Bug Dog Tag Uncle Fred’s Travel-size Tusk

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Owner:
Darmok and Jalad Send Message to Owner Message this owner
Released:
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Origin:
Alaska, United States
Recently Spotted:
Unknown Location

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Current Goal

Travel to Holland, Michigan, where the original Tusk currently resides. 

About This Item

Uncle Fred’s Travel-size Tusk

This TB commemorates my Great Uncle Fred Klerekoper, who was a Presbyterian Missionary in Alaska in the 1930s and 40s. He mailed a real Walrus Tusk to my Grandfather in Michigan without any packaging. He simply put the addresses on white medical tape to the Tusk and popped it in the mail. Can you imagine doing that today?

 

Learn more about Uncle Fred though our other TB Uncle Fred’s Ring https://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?guid=78346854-a00b-46ce-a612-b31b205e410a

 

Note: No walruses were harmed in the creation of this TB. 

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Tracking History (11328.8mi) View Map

Dropped Off 8/28/2006 buckeyealum placed it in No Lion - There's a Cache Ohio - 60.68 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 8/21/2006 buckeyealum retrieved it from Pick Me...Pick Me Ohio   Visit Log

Grabbed Ya Shudda and will take a photo with what I think it was originally attached to, and send on it's way.

  • Farisi It's a HORSE Tag, not a dog tag!
Dropped Off 8/20/2006 WanderingWhimsy78 placed it in Pick Me...Pick Me Ohio - 20.22 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 8/20/2006 WanderingWhimsy78 retrieved it from New Home Ohio   Visit Log

Retrieved Ya Shudda Seen Tha One That Gottaway from New Home to help it on its way. It will be placed in a brand new TB hotel called "Pick me...Pick me" The Travel Bug Tree in North Canton, Ohio.

jm8578 & Iron Horse
Dropped Off 7/10/2006 Blue Bomb placed it in New Home Ohio - 180.67 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 7/8/2006 Blue Bomb retrieved it from 2006 Midwest GeoBash Michigan   Visit Log

Moving him it to a cache in Ohio.
Dropped Off 7/6/2006 LuvWahoo placed it in 2006 Midwest GeoBash Michigan - 234.7 miles  Visit Log

This is the one that got away! I'm sure of it!

[This entry was edited by LuvWahoo on Monday, July 10, 2006 at 5:25:44 AM.]

  • penguin at the bash
  • deflated He didn't get away, he just got the wind knocked out of him.
Retrieve It from a Cache 6/19/2006 LuvWahoo retrieved it from The Magic Line Ohio   Visit Log

Picked it up again to take to the Midwest Geobash.
Dropped Off 6/19/2006 LuvWahoo placed it in The Magic Line Ohio - 139.65 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 6/4/2006 LuvWahoo retrieved it from NEO & NWO meet in the Middle with geocoins Ohio   Visit Log

Picked up this big and lonely TB tag. I will reunite it with what I think it belongs on and move it on!
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